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What do you do to relax after work?

Today we have a guest editorial as Steve is on holiday. This editorial was originally published on Mar 31, 2017.

I would guess most of us have demanding jobs, which can be stressful at least some of the time. Perhaps for some of you, the strain of job stress rarely leaves you. I have been in situations like that, I am thankful my current position has much less stress then my previous one. Still, even if you aren’t under much stress it is still nice to relax after work.

So what do you find relaxing? I imagine a number of you enjoy going to the local watering hole to enjoy a beverage with some friends. Perhaps some of you find exercising relaxing. Personally, I don’t. Exercising causes me to feel tired, which perhaps helps me sleep better, but I don’t find the time during or after exercising particularly relaxing.

Others, might enjoy streaming a movie or watching a show on TV, or playing a video game. I confess I have spent way too much time playing Agar.io much to the irritation of my wife. I am sure many of you enjoy social media like Facebook etc. It is interesting as I consider these different avenues to “relax” it seems that they are sort of fun and they certainly take up time, but do I truly feel more relaxed afterwards?

This caused me to ponder what is something that really helps me feel more relaxed? I realized for me, I really enjoy reading. When I have a good book or the latest issue of popular mechanic, after 20 or 30 minutes reading I feel quite refreshed. Now I realize you may not enjoy reading, or reading just doesn’t relax you. I guess my challenge to you is to spend some time considering what you are doing during your off hours and decide if those activities are actually refreshing you and causing you to relax.

Perhaps that stressful show is not the best thing to watch when you are trying to unwind after work. Maybe social media is causing more irritation then doing any good. Winning one more round of a game or reaching that next level can be fun, but also stressful, which is the opposite of relaxing.

I would encourage you to spend sometime today or in the near future thinking about how you can better relax in your off hours. Let me know what you come up with. Perhaps your idea of a good way to relax will inspire someone else to do the same.

bkubicek

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The Enterprise Roadmap to Reducing Costs (While Increasing Value)

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Today's question (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor):
	The Temp Alias
In SQL Server 2019, what happens when I run this code? CREATE SYNONYM MyTemp FOR dbo.#mytable GO CREATE TABLE #mytable (myid INT, mychar CHAR(10)) GO INSERT MyTemp SELECT 1, 'a' GO SELECT * FROM mytemp GO
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Yesterday's Question of the Day (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor)

The Availability Group Secondary Connection

In a SQL Server Availability Group, I want to control access to the secondary node(s). What types of connections are allowed for clients?

Answer: Not allowing connections, allowing only read-intent connections, or allowing any read-only connections

Explanation: You have three choices:

no connections
only read-intent connections
any read-only connection

Ref: Types of Connection Access Supported by the Secondary Role - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/availability-groups/windows/about-client-connection-access-to-availability-replicas-sql-server?view=sql-server-ver16#ConnectAccessForSecondary

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Database Pros Who Need Your Help

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SQL Server 2016 - Administration

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SQL Server 2016 - Development and T-SQL

Null value when checking unused indexes - I'm using this query to check if I have any unused indexes.. One of the tables it display's has lots of user_updates but the indexname field is NULL... There is a non-clustered index on the table No fill factor and page fullness about 50% and 98% fragmented. Min row size 42 and max 74 avg […]

Degraded performance with extended event session - We have noticed that our nightly jobs take 2-3 times longer when the following extended event session is running. There is a clear deterioration in server performance across two separate servers running the same XE, even though there is not much data being written to the target files by the sessions (only a few MB). […]

SQL Server 2012 - T-SQL

mdf space balance - I have a DB that is running out of space on a drive... If I add another data file will the drive that is running low run out of space, or will it use the new data file just created. How does it balance data consumption. Thx.

Using Case with DATEDIFF for Aging Report - I need help to create a Aging report, I am not retrieving the correct amounts. I am wondering if I need add debit and credit first and then the dateiff

SQL Server 2019 - Administration

Can someone explain where non - clustered index is stored? - I am learning non-clustered and clustered indexing. When reading this article https://www.sqlshack.com/what-is-the-difference-between-clustered-and-non-clustered-indexes-in-sql-server/#:~:text=Clustered%20indexes%20only%20sort%20tables,involve%20any%20extra%20lookup%20step. came across this line by the author Non-clustered indexes are stored in a separate place from the actual table claiming more storage space. Question is, where is this table? I am looking at my Azure Data Studio and am scratching my head looking into […]

SQL Server 2019 - Development

Multiply time by hourly rate - Hello all, I have this table with time for each row. It shows hh:mm. I have rows with all kind of time, 6:30, 5:10, 5:00, 6:42 etc, and I have to multiply it by the hourly rate. Could you please help me? I think I have to, first convert this time column into a number […]

Compare 2 tables and highlight where the column values has been updated - Hi All, I have a requirement to compare data from same table with different snapshot dates and highlight what column values changed from to TO Can any one help me with above requirement please? Regards, R

Best primarykey and index - Hi all, i've to refactor a database with several tables with around 100.000.000 records each one. Each table has the following relevant columns: - ID (bigint) - Tenant (actually i have 10k tenants) - Year (all info has Always a filter search by year) - other 10/20 simple columns I was thinking to have: 1) […]

stored procedure not running - Created a stored procedure and logged in SSMS as Administrator and this user is exists in the Security > Logins I'm able to successfully execute the sp using T-SQL. e.g, declare @output_execution_id bigint exec dbo.int_Bill_Run @output_execution_id output Now, when I add it SQL server agent as a job I get errors - Executed as user: […]

Azure Data Factory

API Configuration help ADF - Hi I am trying to connect to a HR system to simply pull down some data and copy in ASDB I have managed to get it to work in excel using the following code below in the advanced editor but dont even know where to start in terms of where i put this information in […]

Reporting Services

Empty Field is causing entire Page to be blank - I'm a little new to SSRS and am running into a strange issue. I have a Table tied to a data source. Essentially, it is just a letter with text and two fields from the dataset ([Salutation] and [FullName]). The [Fullname] is a field that defines the Associate for the record and it may be […]

General

Error when running batch file - I have a batch file, with the command to drop the tables from the server database. The command works in the database but when I ran the file it gives me an error executing my T-SQL Table dropping script: Sqlcmd: 'ds.user': Unexpected argument. Enter '-?' for help. Any idea what might be the problem? […]

Powershell

Retrieve Password from CyberArk using powershell - Hi, I am new to Powershell script and i have to create a power shell script to get password for SQL service account from CyberArk.. Could you please suggest how to do that ?

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