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Don't tempt me!

Yeah, sometimes my brain hurts.

Face scanning at the gates, or do you mean at passport control? We have face scanning at passport control, but at the gate is new. I haven't had my face scanned at the gate leaving the EU or UK yet (as far as I can remember).

Exactly. Just like in the movie The Martian, where he says "You solve the first problem, then the next one." To me, panic is the result of not being prepared, or having a plan.

Lego Daughter is in my travel backpack, I keep her there so she is with me when I am on the road. Would hate to leave her at home.

I once wrote about how you could spend 3 hours in a week and save 150 hours of manual work by embracing scripting. For some, they see that as a threat to their existence. I turned to scripting because I wanted to do better things than create logins by hand all day.

And so it begins...

I paid $8 for a cup of coffee at Starbucks in Vegas. The water in my room was $16 a bottle. Vegas pricing is crazy.

Agreed. "Praise publicly, criticize privately" is a phrase that comes to mind as well. Too often I've watched people take credit for someone else's work or ideas.

Maybe I was just lucky, but in my years of being a production DBA I can count on one hand the number of times storage was the bottleneck. If I had to rank the resource bottlenecks in order from most likely to cause issues to least, I would go with network, memory, CPU, and then storage. And I'd put locking/blocking ahead…

Yep, just like we trust accountants, and lawyers, and doctors, etc. We expect they are acting in our best interests, at all times.

That sounds like a wonderful trip! I haven't been to Coney Island yet. Or Long Island, either. And the only time I was in Brooklyn was for about 90 minutes 11 years ago when I ran the NYC marathon.

Yeah, this is a nightmare. I'd like to see some stories about companies or services that are looking to authenticate video and voice.

Thanks! Glad you like this.

Great question! I've been trying to raise awareness for about a year now that the future for a Cloud DBA is to be able to understand and troubleshoot network issues first before trying to tune a query. After that, the Cloud DBA will need to help architect the right HA solution for the business based upon cost/benefit/risk,…

Option (c) - I have long arms.

It can be a good stress reliever, too.

But that's an issue with the switch, not the storage itself. Hence my comments from earlier. Often times the issue isn't with the disk itself, but with the act of *trying* to get to the disk.

Yes, of course, there are many ways that bias can creep into any survey, I mentioned a few of them here: https://thomaslarock.com/2017/05/sql-profiler-will-never-die/ 

Thanks!

I hadn't thought about the name being a target. I thought of it as a way to use FUD to get people to think their data will be safe-ish with Azure as opposed to other providers. Microsoft is making a big push in the data security arena, bigger than what I have seen from AWS.

@"smttysmth02gt" That patio extension looks wonderful!

Thanks!

Most criminals aren't very smart.

I can see this service being used, just not by me, for my home. At least not v1.

Uh, thanks?

It was good, yes. Never had a bad Del's.

A decade ago I found social media to be invaluable as a way to discuss tech issues with other lonely DBAs around the globe. These days I use it to look at pictures of cats and brag about the size of my bacon.

It depends upon the system you are working with. Some platforms, such as Oracle, can work well with cursors and row-by-row processing. The issue is when that application code is ported over to a new platform, such as SQL Server, when set-based operations can be many times faster. There are many times when cursors are…