I live in Salem, MA, a.k.a. The Witch City. We're Halloween central here. I thought this year we'd see almost no one come around in September and October. I mean...

Maybe the SQL Agent account cannot access the CSV file. If it's coming from a network location I believe you will need an AD account for SQL Agent. Something to...

Things are certainly different now then when I had my ticket back in high school.

My scary leap right now is setting up AOAG. Although most of the walk throughs are...

I was already working from home 3 days a week so I was pretty well setup when they told us to work from home full time. My commute was 45...

I started with Visual Source Safe (a long, long time ago), then TFS and we've moved to Git about 2 years ago. It's taken me a while to wrap my...

I bought a HyperX Cloud Revolver S last year for some of the meetings I had to be on remotely. It's served me well through the last several months. It's...

I have an HP Z Book for work and a second 24" monitor. It's a pretty beefy laptop, i7 32GB 2 SSDs about 3 years old at this point but...

I missed debugging in SSMS for a short while although I didn't miss the number of times debugging would crash SSMS. I think I'm actually happier with my...

I missed debugging in SSMS for a short while although I didn't miss the number of times debugging would crash SSMS. I think I'm actually happier with my current method...

Funny thing about 2FA systems is the same system can be good for one person and bad for another. When we were all still working in the office (remember those...

Thank you for those posts Grant. It helps to try and reset your view when there's so much going on that can drain us emotionally right now. I'm not all...

If you want to do this in Powershell, you could use dbatools: https://docs.dbatools.io/#Backup-DbaDatabase

But whether you use Ola's backup or Powershell, take a look at modifying the MaxTransferSize, BlockSize and BufferCount...

Steve - thanks for the link to Microsoft Research. I haven't looked at that link in a long time and it's always interesting to see what they're working on.

The meetings...

Good points Steve.

The musician in me will stick to buying music though... 🙂

Far too many things in my life want a perpetual income ever month. No, I don't want more monthly bills for options in my car. I'll either buy it or...