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Good afternoon all. I see the same usual suspects still here

@TomV-trytopanswers.xyz I'm claiming the crown back

Who's the current village idiot then? Me, because I have to ask...?

Good morning all. Did I miss anything?

@Philᵀᴹ One day at a time

@Philᵀᴹ I answered a question on db2 on SO once

nah

<_ do i have a hat?

one for dba.se? stackoverflow.com/questions/53728997/…

looks ok here

Beep you have reached the answer phone...

@George.Palacios ah, yet another OCDBA

option 1 or 2 if you do please

Anyone use sp_databaserestore from Brent O? github.com/BrentOzarULTD/SQL-Server-First-Responder-Kit/issues/…

@George.Palacios At least it didn't happen on a Friday

@ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells I'll try and blag a trip to the London office

@TomV True. I'm just old and cynical

I look forward explaining that one to management

@TomV replacement infrastructure partner due next year. We might only have db level access which means we can't run some "special" applications

@George.Palacios 3rd party

That is, you manage only the databases and some (lesser) monkeys deal with the SQL Server patching, server level settings, security, etc?

Anyone actually using "SQL as a service" for real stuff?

xaprb.com/blog/2010/02/08/…

Basically it's a workaround for MySQL not doing proper WAL

@pavelkolodin a quick google shows percona.com/blog/2006/08/04/innodb-double-write

@pavelkolodin Why do want to know? I know PGSQL has some good resurces about this (and WAL etc) in their docs. What is missing from these?

@Philᵀᴹ ...again

@SpringLearner Utter horseshit

my old DBAs (back when I was in a developer role) used to amuse themselves doing Google translations of SQL Server docs and back again

@hot2use Isn't his "multiculturalism" or something?

I found something that will do anyway, I just have to translate "documentation English" to "English for foreigners"

@hot2use I'm not using SQL Server FCI. Just AGs on top on Windows FCI.

I've been asked, can't Google up a nice one-liner to sum it up authoratively, now I'm second guessing myself...

been a while...

eh?

null bitmap?

I'm going to go with "something is different in the environment"

@PaulWhite it probably doesn't affect. it's more likely a bad comparison setup

or "it depends"

about 15 seconds

Even in your Merkin babble it's still Sergeant en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant

@MaxVernon First "trick or treating", now "Amazon putting bricks'n'mortar out of business"

And synonyms are, er, quite new... I don't use them now unless I really have to...

@sp_BlitzErik Sometimes different servers

@sp_BlitzErik If I really needed, I'd use a sensible linked server name so any code can be consistent. And change the data source (sp_setnetname etc). I have some SO answers on it.

@JoeObbish See previous line

@sp_BlitzErik Abstracts different databases names away between enviornments. For example

@JoeObbish This cloud thing means fewer server rooms with locked doors and mattresses

@MaxVernon Shurely the shame rules about "stoned" apply to being "rat arsed"

Can you bugger off to a new room please?