I have an HP Z Book for work and a second 24" monitor. It's a pretty beefy laptop, i7 32GB 2 SSDs about 3 years old at this point but...

I missed debugging in SSMS for a short while although I didn't miss the number of times debugging would crash SSMS. I think I'm actually happier with my...

I missed debugging in SSMS for a short while although I didn't miss the number of times debugging would crash SSMS. I think I'm actually happier with my current method...

Funny thing about 2FA systems is the same system can be good for one person and bad for another. When we were all still working in the office (remember those...

Thank you for those posts Grant. It helps to try and reset your view when there's so much going on that can drain us emotionally right now. I'm not all...

If you want to do this in Powershell, you could use dbatools: https://docs.dbatools.io/#Backup-DbaDatabase

But whether you use Ola's backup or Powershell, take a look at modifying the MaxTransferSize, BlockSize and BufferCount...

Steve - thanks for the link to Microsoft Research. I haven't looked at that link in a long time and it's always interesting to see what they're working on.

The meetings...

Good points Steve.

The musician in me will stick to buying music though... 🙂

Far too many things in my life want a perpetual income ever month. No, I don't want more monthly bills for options in my car. I'll either buy it or...

Ken,

Wishing you a speedy recovery. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

-Tom

I'll add this. Redgate SQL Compare is worth every penny. And no, I don't work for them or get anything from them for saying this. I just love the tools.

Now, this...

"That might be good advice for life in general: listen more; talk less."

Good advice indeed. Sometimes I'm not as good at that as I should be.

I really liked using mRemoteNG until our parent company blocked it for some inane reason.

https://mremoteng.org/

We have a morning stand-up and a quick (10-15 minute) touch base session in the afternoon. Most questions that require multiple participants get answered then. We use Skype during the...