It will, all the new students basically grow up with GenAI,

That were AI may come in handy to manage the complexity

Thanks for mentioning the new interesting commands.

According to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/jaro-winkler-distance-transact-sql?view=azuresqldb-current it's still in preview

Times flies, thanks for the reminder. Didn't switch yet to 2022

Had to create a custom role on the resourcegroup https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/database-import?view=azuresql&tabs=azure-powershell

Instant file initialization in sql 2022? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/databases/database-instant-file-initialization?view=sql-server-ver16

However the latency points to hardware ( perhaps an ssd buffer got full, your sql server got migrated to slower storage due inactivity ...)

Probably switch to PostGres or start developing again

Using some crude tracking with SP_DATABASE_TABLE_SIZE. Lately switched to extended events database file changes to identify the culprit or using query story to find the queries just before that happened

The newer os requires you to use administrative privileges (UAC). Run explorer as administrator

cmd (run as administrator)
explorer (this will be started as administrator)

explore

4 TB SQL backup may take a long time

Have you looked at backup snapshot technologies? Like Veeam / SAN ...

Nvidia drivers are under the weather, having an expensive video card to see black screens every so often.  Not feeling the burn yet

If you like the query results in VS Code below your query

Go to Menu > View > Editor Layout > Flip Layout.

Aargh, just got used to Azure Data Studio with its easy exports to CSV, JSON, Excel ...

Also using extended events voor basic monitoring, but the tooling is not easy.

I would also like something that is able to read it without using sys.fn_xe_file_target_read_file in order to offload...

Thanks for the replies