Hey Steve,

I've been trying a lot of these tools again lately, and DBeaver produces the diagrams that I like most. (And the community edition is free)

It was easy to...

Sorry to hear that Neil and best of luck. It is a scary time to be job hunting

Is this any different than someone searching on Google and picking a random answer...

Glad you liked it. Trying to work through some of the language changes in short, focused articles.

Agreed, we get more data, but lots of it suspect. Maybe AI will help clean some up, or at least get us closer to an MDM world, but design is...

Yeah, FYI, if you had ssms 22 preview, I couldn't upgrade it from the VS installed. Had to go to aka.ms/ssms to get the new installer. Uninstalled old, installing new...

I know I've been busy, and losing notifications for a few weeks (WP upgrade) was really impactful.

Hopefully your note (or mine) ping a few people.

Looking forward to the PASS Summit...

That's interesting. Strange that it would be different? I assume you did all this yourself on SSMS, so no version difference there.

What was the flaw in teh script?

Also, FTI, SSRS is SQL Server Reporting Services to most people. Replication is just replication.

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I don't remember where I read it, but some SQL MVP has recently discussed that VM snapshots and sql backups are most likely all that is needed by the...

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I feel that a lot of complexity results from situations where someone presents the solution, rather than the problem they are trying to solve.  Implementing that solution is the...

AOG is great, ...

In a lot of cases, the AOG itself is still available, but the application is trying to hit a specific node that's temporarily offline. So, making...

You often need a bigger team to build a system than you do to keep it running once implemented, so it makes sense for some of that team to...

I have many years of experience in IT as an employee as well as a consultant.  As I see it you need to hire all of the above.

Hire inexperienced...

When you grow internal staff, does that mean they take on new responsibilities in addition to their old responsibilities? Or does it mean that you move them into a...