The x1e.2xlarge EC2 instance type provides 244GB with 8 cores. Also, the upcoming x2iedn.2xlarge has 256GB with 8 cores. I see a lot of clients running 8 core instances with...

I just started building out a new home hybrid lab yesterday. On the local side, it's VMware Workstation on a beefy Windows 10 laptop. I'm getting some templates built out...

It's worth mentioning that the @delay_between_responses parameter is critical for this when setting up alerts. Otherwise, an alert storm that causes a flood of emails will trigger Slack to completely disable...

This is a bit of an edge case, but I've worked with applications from crappy vendors that didn't support installation on a named instance and "required" sysadmin permissions, but weren't...

When using case-sensitive collation, the following line results in error:

Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Line 273

Invalid column name 'html'.

Changing 'html' to 'HTML' resolves the error:

--****************************************************************************************

-- Output HTML page -...