Remember to chill your champagne tonight, so it's at the perfect temp for tomorrow.

#SQLBlog #SQLServer Using the new CETAS functionality (Generally Available) to export data from my Managed Instance to Parquet files in Azure Blob Storage. You can do folder paths, partition on dates, etc. I prefer this to my python solution using Arrow. thebakingdba.blogspot.com/2023/04/azure-…

Less than three hours left before our EP becomes available on all major streaming platforms!

Updated: my #SQLServer Extended Event "sev10+" tracker, where the session uses 10mb in the ring buffer to catch recent app/SQL errors (error_reported). Putting the finishing touches on my cross-server collector (trying to stomp out the insert deadlocks) gist.github.com/mbourgon/5bd2d…

Found: credit card for a Debbie Grisham, Trinity trails near Hulen

Not exactly optimal for old-timers setting up their phone, it is? #iphone

Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there!

#SQLHelp #Azure anybody run into issues on Azure Managed Instance where an extended event is hours behind/delayed, even if it's an in-memory target? I thought it was busted, but in the past 15 minutes it's pulled in events from over a 3 hour period.

To all those people who write Teams messages to people that say "hi, <name>" then nothing else. Why? Why do you do this? #MSTeams #Teams

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Tracking drums with Will Putney for our new single 'Arrival'. Check out the full song where ever you listen to music. #nightverses #equalvisionrecords

#DBATools Does anybody know if you can use applicationintent=readonly with Copy-DbaDbTableData? It looks like you'd have to use invoke-dbaquery and write it, but it's multi-gb of data so I'd rather not buffer it. Doesn't look like the sqlinstance param can use conn str #SQLServer

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A year or so more of this shit and Ballard will easily appear to have been more prophetic than Heinlein.

#SQLHelp I have a stored procedure that's called thousands of times a minute, concurrently by 20+ threads. How does an ALTER on it work? I assume it needs a schema lock to do so, but would it just start blocking new executions until the existing executions are done, then ALTER?

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Demo has been released a moment ago. Check it out store.steampowered.com/app/2644610/Me… Please add it to the wishlist if you like the game 💀

A cool Lovecraftian deck-builder. Well worth spending the hour playing.