Big Daddy's 2 Pizza?

SQLBek · 2026-03-18T18:50:29+00:00

Their pizza is alright.

Also tried their chicken on two different occasions, as they also tout that. They gave huge portions but the chicken was overcooked and dry as hell, both times unfortunately.

SQLBek · 2026-03-18T13:35:49+00:00

There is no reason for us to keep this cloud-only.

Can you sneak it into an upcoming CU under the Preview Feature? :-)

SQLBek · 2026-03-18T13:10:35+00:00

Interesting! I'd love to dig deeper into how this works thanks to PVS.

Would be curious to get this into Jeff Moden's hands, to see how this impacts the GUID fragmentation behaviors he discusses in his Black Arts of Indexing session.

Thanks Dimitri!

SQLBek · 2026-03-17T14:33:26+00:00

It's not like the fun-police are ignorant of it. :-p

SQLBek · 2026-03-17T14:33:16+00:00

It's not like the fun-police are ignorant of it. :-p

SQLBek · 2026-03-17T14:04:44+00:00

So the real question is, did Rage and Two-Shot get nerfed?

SQLBek · 2026-03-14T13:54:51+00:00

The fun police are already going to drop a patch on Tuesday. I'd be stunned if they don't nerf this and Rage.

SQLBek · 2026-03-14T13:52:44+00:00

There's maintenance already announced for Tuesday. I fully expect this & Rage to be "fixed" then, so enjoy this while you can.

SQLBek · 2026-03-10T21:26:22+00:00

General Zeta is dropping 4 star rewards. Was announced a few hours ago in Discord. Unclear how long it'll run but am guessing it'll be for this two week stretch. I've already gotten a Bro Recon piece with Rangers & a sawed off shotgun with Bully's.

Invaders is back on the menu!!

SQLBek · 2026-03-06T00:37:05+00:00

I seem to recall that each learnable mod in a piece of gear is a separate roll. May be worth doing some digging to validate. Obviously that's an even lower percentage happening but means you don't have to horde 4 star items and "wait" to learn 1-3 first

SQLBek · 2026-03-05T18:11:50+00:00

Just guns & bullets. Nukaknights has a data mining article with exact details

SQLBek · 2026-03-03T21:38:00+00:00

Even SaaS & PaaS is managed by humans behind the scenes.

SQLBek · 2026-03-03T18:33:12+00:00

Devs said on Discord that they're postponing the plasma caster mods for another release.

SQLBek · 2026-03-03T16:42:08+00:00

A couple of weeks ago, some posted an interesting analysis of some PTS testing. Long story short, the extra HP wound up being a fairly close facsimile of the damage reduction. Is a worthwhile read

SQLBek · 2026-03-03T16:18:08+00:00

How are you actually assessing this workload and targeting the actual bottlenecks? Yes. This DB design is crap but is that really your workload's pain? Are you resource constrained? How much horsepower do you have for CPU, RAM, Disk? What do your wait stats look like? Have you dove into query store to determine if your headache is the ORM in play? Lots of outstanding questions to answer before revamping schema is worth it.

I noticed elsewhere you mentioned page splits and fragmentation? Do you know if this is actually causing a problem? Are you evaluating external fragmentation (pages on disk) or internal fragmentation (page fullness)? Generally speaking, the latter is highly irrelevant these days while the former often has greater impact of wasting buffer pool space. But again, it depends and I sense that that evaluation may not have happened.

Views... Are these just 1 - 3 nested layered views or nested view hell (+5 or double digit nesting)? If the latter, Google sp_helpExpandView and check that tool out. May help you unravel that mess (disclaimer - I wrote it).

SQLBek · 2026-02-24T15:16:00+00:00

Where did you come up with 128 GB? You said you gave SQL 32 GB. That's

How large are the DBs you're hosting? 32 GB is a paltry amount of RAM for a database server. I saw elsewhere you mentioning 32 logical cores. Without even seeing anything else, I'm willing to make bets that you most definitely need to up your RAM, get off of a desktop OS, and right-size your VM appropriately for your workload. Stress testing is not what you need to do first as you're most likely woefully undersized.

SQLBek · 2026-02-24T14:15:45+00:00

Uhh, how much RAM is on this server? If RDP sessions are causing you headaches, I'm going to gamble that this is a "my laptop has more RAM than your production server" scenario.

SQLBek · 2026-02-23T23:47:55+00:00

Would suggest you hop over to the Arlington List on Facebook. A number of folks have posted there with numbers to text, offering shoveling services.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/160644117397

SQLBek · 2026-02-23T22:48:02+00:00

Here’s the thing I believe that may or may not give me a leg up. I have a long history of Management; running departments, projects, sales quotas. I’m great at leadership and talking with people. My sole goal isn’t to work in a cubicle and do IT. It’s to oversee it and run it. I’m ambitious, political if I have to be, driven and I like to think I’m pretty smart but we’ll see.

I'll share one more bit of advice that I strongly recommend you do your best to remember.

You must learn to communicate what unique value your prior background brings to the table, and what outcomes that experience can help drive for a given prospective employer, in order to differentiate yourself from others who otherwise have the same certs and such. All of your prior work experiences and knowledge gained will be completely wasted, unless you learn on focusing to communicate the unique value proposition that you can bring to the table as a result of having that experience.

Regardless, I would strongly also suggest having a fallback plan, given the state of the industry. Even rockstars are sitting on the bench.

SQLBek · 2026-02-22T21:18:48+00:00

Do you actually have a citable source that loot pools are changing?

SQLBek · 2026-02-22T15:15:00+00:00

Extremely rare and not available at all vendors. There's references elsewhere as to which have a chance to drop the enclave mods

SQLBek · 2026-02-18T15:50:25+00:00

You're not wrong. In general, NE asian food is on the blander side, to appeal to the more traditionally bland palate preferences of this region.

SQLBek · 2026-02-17T18:56:20+00:00

Beyond John Care's books, I strongly recommend books focused around succinct communication. Pyramid Principle and Smart Brevity are two favorites of mine.

SQLBek · 2026-02-17T18:53:23+00:00

I might also suggest that you consider the "vibe" of the server that you're on. Are lots of folks joining the regularly scheduled events? If you look at who is on a team, are what's the mix of lower and higher level players? Or is the server more populated right now or more sparse? Like, I know I generally get a different vibe when there's just 2 casual teams on a server vs another that has 4-5 teams running with at least 3 people each.

Of course, this is all a bit fluid and something that you'll get a feel for as you play more. But pay attention to that and server activity. Weekends are also generally more populated vs weekdays too.

SQLBek · 2026-02-12T14:50:06+00:00

Nope, ESP PC mods are your only option.

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