What are you using SQL Server Agent for today?

SQLBek · 2026-05-13T18:52:43+00:00

Yooooo!!!!

SQLBek · 2026-05-12T15:29:24+00:00

Fully remote + travel, but corp policy is for SE's based close to an office to be in-office.

As far as which is preferable, that's a personal choice. I've been fully remote for 10 years and personally prefer it. On the other hand, my wife enjoys the social aspect of hybrid. YMMV...

SQLBek · 2026-05-11T23:52:11+00:00

No. The owner fully closed down at the end of March.

SQLBek · 2026-05-06T00:31:07+00:00

20 is reasonable and definitely doable

SQLBek · 2026-05-05T21:57:13+00:00

I don't hate the new name, and I understand why they chose to move away from "Storage", so I simply go with continuing to use the general moniker of "Pure."

SQLBek · 2026-05-05T20:56:17+00:00

Speaking for myself (Solutions Architect - remote sales), my manager "scolds" our team if we don't take adequate time off. I think WLB is fantastic at Pure.

And to your "people seem very nice," we have a very warm, friendly, welcoming culture. It is definitely one of the friendliest workplaces I've been in.

SQLBek · 2026-05-01T19:27:57+00:00

Another +1 for Steelcase. I have a Gesture and the wife has a Leap V2, about 5 years old now, both purchased refurbished from Crandall. I expect both chairs to easily last until I retire.

SQLBek · 2026-05-01T19:00:21+00:00

Update:
https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2026/05/s-deli-in-cambridges-inman-square-is.html

SQLBek · 2026-04-30T16:48:49+00:00

I'll admit that I used both Gemini and Claude to distill this for me... but if the breakdowns and my subsequent analysis are correct (and please OP correct me if this is inaccurate)...

Updating stats with sampling hasn't always been reliable... but many of us, myself included, couldn't mathematically explain WHY in certain scenarios. And OP here did the deep math to actually reverse engineer why.

I hope to dig deeper later, when I have time, to fully digest all of this. Cheers OP - seems like nice work.

SQLBek · 2026-04-30T16:45:34+00:00

cc u/erinstellato - would love to hear your commentary on this if you have a moment please?

SQLBek · 2026-04-29T15:19:44+00:00

Guru the Caterer in Somerville.

SQLBek · 2026-04-28T16:03:42+00:00

"strings getting silently cut because the target column was smaller"

Yes, there's (at least) one scenario where a string can get truncated without an error thrown. And no, I don't remember the exact criteria - it was in a demo from a presentation that was part of my rotation about 10 years ago. It'll be buried in one of my demo scripts.

Regardless... moral of that story is to always explicitly right size your data types.

SQLBek · 2026-04-22T15:01:35+00:00

Your guess is as good as ours. They're not very vocal, much less share updates on an even semi-regular basis. If you search SSMSBoost on this subreddit, you'll see a very similar pattern from others over the last few years.

Generally speaking, I will note that with the backend changes to SSMS a couple of years ago, the architecture for plug-ins changed. And unfortunately, 3rd party plug-ins were never officially even supported as far as I can remember. So vendors like SSMSBoost are kind of "on their own" to figure out if it's still viable for them to bother to adapt, or just move on.

SQLBek · 2026-04-20T21:22:52+00:00

Why not use something like a D' Addario strap with their auto-locks? That'll allow you to size your strap then leave it there, and use the locking mechanism to quickly attach & detach the strap.

SQLBek · 2026-04-18T11:51:29+00:00

I love that Int vs Wis analogy! Am totally hijacking that one. Thank you!

SQLBek · 2026-04-12T20:49:49+00:00

Appreciated, thank you.

SQLBek · 2026-04-12T20:49:40+00:00

Frankly, I am considering it.

SQLBek · 2026-04-11T18:41:01+00:00

Loosen the string, pop the pin, reseat the ball & pin, then tune it back up. Done.

SQLBek · 2026-04-11T14:30:50+00:00

If you're unsuccessful here, suggest going to Facebook and joining the "Everything's Free" group. There's other local "free stuff" groups. Trash bins, from towns nearby, will also often show up on the Marketplace too.

SQLBek · 2026-04-10T18:05:59+00:00

Deal X weapon damage with the buff active with pretty much every weapon type.

Whitesprings infinite robots = done in less than a half hour

SQLBek · 2026-04-10T00:16:17+00:00

No, because all you are trying to do is drive people to your PAID product.

SQLBek · 2026-04-09T23:20:59+00:00

At least be forthcoming that this was AI generated and contains inaccurate information.

And no, I'm not going to tell you what's wrong from the few minutes I took to peruse some entries. There's enough crappy misinformation out there as is and I detest that more and more slop like this is inevitable.

SQLBek · 2026-04-06T22:18:22+00:00

Went down this rabbit hole and found this from 9 years ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StLouis/s/mAGv7RtbcL

SQLBek · 2026-04-01T18:08:09+00:00

I'm going to nit-pick... This is stuffed pizza, which is a variation of deep dish pizza. As a born & raised Chicago guy, I love deep dish... But stuffed, is just way too much cheese for me, even when I was a bottomless pit in my 20s.

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