I was completely put off by looking at the "average response time" at the top of the results -- 50 minutes? But after having a look at the results I...

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Thanks for the reminder, Grant, that fun means something different to all of us. I will remember your term "wrong fun". It does seem that a lot of people only...

I usually update SSMS shortly after a new version comes out. Since 19.3 had some security updates, and the security team at my company had recently identified some very old...

I agree, Grant. Replication is critical to my company, and there needs to be better ways of handling creating replication for large DB's (11TB, for example). It's painful to set...

I remember having a big learning curve from Query Analyzer to SSMS, but of course SSMS has almost everything I need. I've tried ADS, and I really wanted to use...

I would love to use SSMS 100% of the time and would gladly run Parallels on my Mac to do so if… I could actually read the screen. Vision...

I didn't know about Gladys West until I read your list. What an amazing woman.

Work-wise, 2021 was a big win for me. I changed jobs from being an everything DBA & developer at a medium sized company to being a production DBA in a...

I definitely feel the screen time fatigue! Although this newsletter is one of the few that I endeavour to read regularly, I support your decision to reduce the frequency.

I am in a position where I know too much about how things work, and I'm the only person who does. I am working to document things so that someone...

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I didn't know about 'bankers round' / 'round to even' at all, so I'm glad that the article has introduced it to me. Thank you.

If I knew I had to look for a job next Jan 1, I would immediately start training on Azure. I don't really know anything about it but I do...

That's wonderful, Kendra! I am also a transplant -- I moved to Nottinghamshire from Dallas, Texas almost 20 years ago.

It's not easy moving to a different country, but there are so...

Grant,

This has been on my mind for a while. I *am* a bottleneck. Things would get done faster if I loosened up the reins. When I realised a couple of...

What a useful post! Thank you for this important reminder. 

I put lots of thought into how things work in the office if I'm not in -- I've worked...