My company only lets us accrue 120 hours. After that, they stop giving us vacation time until we use it. I took Wednesday off for the GroupBy online conference but...

See Grant. I was paying attention! <g>

What I'm talking about is a firewall on the PC that profiles executable for suspicious behaviour and then warns via a dialog - allowing user to whitelist or block...

Thanks Steve. I've never written an article before so it would be an interesting exercise. It would also feel good to contribute something back to a community I've gotten so...

The script runs every day at 4:00am and saves the previous days configuration as well. The output of the script is saved in the same file share as our full...

I was expecting the answer to be 512mb because you specified the number of data files. When I saw the answers I knew it had to be per file.

I wrote a PowerShell script that uses dbatools to script all the settings of our SQL Servers and stores it along with our backups which get copied off site. It...

I've been working from home 3 days a week for a while before all this started. I have a 90 mile round trip to get into work and I have...

There doesn't seem to be any content in the article. It's empty...

Have to agree with everyone else here. GETDATE() will return the current date and time for the server, GETUTCDATE() will return the date and time that is marked as the...

This is even more challenging in medical. If you are a blood lab and run a panel of tests, some of them greatly depend on the birth sex of the...

Thanks everyone for all the ideas. I appreciate your thoughts on this.

4. Nope. With the full knowledge that people are frequently on a single SAN and what looks like separation of storage, isn't. Separate the storage of your tests from...

Do you test each full backup every day or do you sample every other day or once a week? With one test server, I don't think we could make...

I'm on the same journey - we (meaning me) do restores from the latest backup once per month, split up throughout the month

we don't do DBCC checkdb on restore...