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Daily Coping Tip

Broaden your perspective: read a different paper, magazine, or site

I also have a thread at SQLServerCentral dealing with coping mechanisms and resources. Feel free to participate.

For many of you out there working in a new way, I'm including a thought of the day on how to cope in this challenging time from The Action for Happiness Coping Calendar. My items will be on my blog, feel free to share yours.

Black Friday Wishes

It's traditionally Black Friday in the US today, with big sales kicking off the Christmas season. This year, many companies have taken different approaches, with the pandemic and separation. Plenty of online training from SQL experts has been on sale and available, and there are certainly other deals to be had.

I recently ran across a list on 10 tech holiday gifts that will delight your employees. I don't know that I want any of these, and some of these are quite extravagant for an employee gift. At least, it feels that way to me.

Today, I'm wondering if there is something you wish your employer would give you this holiday season, other than a bonus. Is there some tech gift that you'd appreciate?

I used to manage technical people. At different times in my career, I've had different size teams, but I always made it a point to give a small gift at Christmas to my staff. I appreciated their efforts and work, and I felt it was important to let them know. I never gave big gifts, usually setting a limit of US$20-25 per person. With some teams as large as 12, this wasn't inexpensive.

I did make an effort to think about each person, and get something slightly tailored to them. Usually I had some theme, and people got similar gifts, but with a bit of personalization. These days, I don't manage people, but I do help my wife get gifts together for her clients.

Let me know today if you think there is anything you'd like, and feel free to forward this to your management. Maybe they'll take the hint.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Using Notebooks in Azure Data Studio

Steve Jones - SSC Editor from SQLServerCentral

Learn how to use the notebook feature of Azure Data Studio to keep a set of queries together with some documentation.

BMWs SQL Server Enterprise Architect on the challenges of monitoring

Additional Articles from Redgate

Tony Maddonna, BMW’s SQL Server Enterprise Architect, writes about the challenges of database monitoring. Drawing on experiences throughout his career, this blog covers manual vs third party, proactive monitoring in dev and test, and managing expectations of the cloud. To learn more, and read his tips on how to build a business case for third-party tooling, check out his blog.

Continuous deployment at scale

Additional Articles from SimpleTalk

More organisations are adopting DevOps, but what happens as the codebase grows? In this article, Siddharth Rao gives advice on how to implement continuous deployment at scale.

From the SQL Server Central Blogs - How do I tell what compression level my tables/indexes are?

Kenneth.Fisher from SQLStudies

It’s been a while since I worked with compression and the other day I needed to check which of my ... Continue reading

From the SQL Server Central Blogs - The Secret to Saving on Cloud Costs

kleegeek from Technobabble by Klee from @kleegeek

Have you ever cringed when you received your monthly cloud bill? Does it feel like you’re overpaying for your cloud services, but don’t know how to reduce your monthly...

 

 Question of the Day

Today's question (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor):

 

Large Database Files

What is the largest a single database file can grow to in SQL Server 2019?

Think you know the answer? Click here, and find out if you are right.

 

 

 Yesterday's Question of the Day (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor)

Thanksgiving Visualizations

What type of chart is best used for Thanksgiving dinner visualizations?

Answer: Pie chart

Explanation: Of course it's the pie chart. Happy Thanksgiving!

Discuss this question and answer on the forums

 

 

 

Database Pros Who Need Your Help

Here's a few of the new posts today on the forums. To see more, visit the forums.


SQL Server 2017 - Administration
user mapping error - Hi All, We have recently migrated SQL 2012 EE to SQL 2017. We are on Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (RTM-CU22) 14.0.3356.20 (X64) EE. Using SSMS, I have logged into SQL 2017 instance as a sysadmin role member and when I go to a specific login -> right click --> Properties -> User Mapping , I […]
SQL Server 2017 - Development
Using hierarchyID - Hell community, This is my first to try to use hierarchyID, but on my example above my column PATH return always NULL. What i  am doing wrong !?? CREATE TABLE #tbl( ID int, ParentId INT, Name VARCHAR(30), [path] hierarchyid null ); --DROP TABLE #tbl INSERT INTO #tbl VALUES (1, Null, 'Corporate_HQ',null), (2, 1, 'South_Region',null), (3, […]
SQL Server 2016 - Administration
Simple Recovery Model - Active VLFs cannot be truncated - Hi everyone, I am facing a strange situation. I've got 99% of VLFs active and ckeckpoint is not working. No open transactions/long-running transactions. Is there any chance log is holding active VLFs by mistake? Is there any rare situation sql server considers VLFs are active? Some details: SELECT [name] AS 'Database Name', COUNT(li.database_id) AS 'VLF […]
Backup time not reducing even after DB size went down 300 GB - Backup time is almost same and did not reduce after the database size went down by 300 GB. What could be the reason?   Thanks in advance.
Mirroring Automatic Failover?.. - Hello, We are receiving the below Error message in Mirroring and principal server is failovering automatically to Mirror Server. Database mirroring connection error 4 'The connection was closed by the remote end, or an error occurred while receiving data: '64(The specified network name is no longer available.)'' Database mirroring connection error 4 '10054(An existing connection […]
Replaced deprecated types (text, ntext) with Varchar(max) and NVarchar(max) ! - in 500 tables, on thousands of columns in all databases on entire server, I have replaced deprecated datatypes (text, ntext) with Varchar(max) and NVarchar(max). To detect them and to generate modification scripts, PLEASE HELP YOURSELVES to my and Victor's attached new SP named asp_Get_DeprecatedDatatypes_Columns_withgeneratedmodifyDDL /*Usage examples-are-in-comments-header, you can compile and run it in any database […]
Development - SQL Server 2014
Query performance with ROW_NUMBER function - Hello All, Could any of you please let me know why the row_number paging function is having a performance issue when using the "WHERE results.ROWNUMBER BETWEEN 1 AND 50" clause (takes more than 2 mins),  but runs in 5 secs when i comment the where clause which will return the entire result set. I see […]
SQL Server 2019 - Administration
multisubnet configuration - Good morning all , I am in an alwayson multisubnet configuration, the listen and configured with 3 IP addresses in the configuration of my application I am unable to set the value multisubnet failover = true it is an installation script where there is only icon to put the name of the server and the […]
client server encryption - Good morning all , how can I check if SSL encryption is enabled on my SQL server, I only have SSMS access on server I have no RDP access on the server I cannot access the service configuration manager to see if this option enabled my problem comes during the installation phase of the application […]
Sql server does not go above 50% CPU - Hi everyone, I have this issue: in a single complex processing performed in a virtual machine with 4 virtual processors and 4 sockets, the CPU never manages to exceed 50% thus doubling the previous runtime when it was performed on a physical server. Is it possible that there is a limit imposed by SQL server […]
SQL Server 2019 - Development
How to rank the records - I am trying to figure how to create rank column in my query with the below logic. I need to group by item category and then rank them by ordbo. Any help appreciated  
IDENTITY only allowed on one table at a time? - I am trying to insert some sample data into my database. I ran the INSERT INTO Statements and got the following messages: /* ***************************** * Data Entry Statements for * * Project ACES * * Version 1.1.0 * * Written By: Russell Wright* * Updated by: Russell Wright* * Created: 11/20/2020 * * Updated: 11/20/2020 […]
Reporting Services
tablix hierarchy - Hello, I would like to have the below requirement in the tablix to call each sub-report for every Code but I am unable to do this. Any suggestions please? Thank you Requirement : Code --> Tablix is grouped on this field Title_1 --> Title as the header for the following subreport subreport_1 --> Detailed row […]
Unable to delete older report - Hallo All, Couldn't able to remove the older report folder , tried possible ways though giving an error stating with below message. Please help me out here. Thank You. An error occurred within the report server database. this may be due to a connection failure, timeout or low dis condition within the database.    
Analysis Services
Table.NestedJoin in Azure Analysis Services - We have an M/Power Query query in Power BI that uses Table.NestedJoin. However, we get errors when we try to use that same command in Azure Analysis Services. Does this command even work in AAS? I don't see any examples of it working properly. Is there a workaround?
 

 

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