Grant - Best of luck on the move. I hope it goes as smooth as possible.

I'm with you on documenting as much as possible. You'll never get everything but it's...

SQL Monitor is helpful for noting when a new CU is released. We will patch our dev/qa servers and keep a close eye on them for a couple weeks and...

On the self-driving car thing, it weould be much easier if all cars were self-driving. Take the human idiot factor out of it and it instantly becomes simpler, especially...

If the SQL Server Engine service is restarted, it will check and refuse to start if it is more than 180 days.

Jeff, I am so looking forward to this!

I think I fall somewhere between Glenn Berry and Jeff Moden. On the one hand, I kinda miss the simplicity of the Plymouth Valiant I had as a kid. It...

A very good friend of mine, used to talk about something with a name like "Dev Pack", or "Business Pack", or something like that. Unfortunately, he passed away,...

Hi Grant,

Thanks for the response. That sounds like a good course. I've seen several articles about how useless REORG is. I'll definitely skip that. I know that Ola has added...

Sometimes the lines between my time and work time tend to blur (today's Blursday, right?). What I don't miss is a 90 mile round trip to the office. Granted I...

The DBA and development teams where I work have been off site for the entire time and everything that we got done before the pandemic still gets done. Hours may...

When I Google it, the very first link I get is: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/deprecated-database-engine-features-in-sql-server-version-15?view=sql-server-ver15

And it contains the code marked as correct in the question. What are you referring to?

We're too small a team to do something like this but I think for larger teams this is a very interesting idea. I am fortunate that in our small team...

I'll also add that 60 minute sessions just aren't long enough to do the job right for a lot of sessions.  If the 60 minutes on/15 minutes between thing...

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