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For many of you out there working in a new way, I'm including a thought of the day on how to cope in this challenging time from The Action for Happiness Coping Calendar. My items will be on my blog, feel free to share yours.

What's a Lot of Money?

The other day I was talking to a someone about the amount of money their business spent on a particular transaction. This person thought the amount was high, but I didn't. We had an interesting discussion from there.

Today, I'm curious what you think is a lot of money that your organization might have spent on some transaction. A piece of hardware, some software, maybe even another company. Are there times you've felt they overpaid for some item that you wouldn't have bought?

Most of the people I know work for someone else. Their concept of large or small values is often dictated by their own view of personal finances. While we might spent US$1-2k on a computer, many of us wouldn't buy a $50,000 server for home.

For friends that own a business, even a solo one, they often have a slightly different view of costs. A business might need to easily invest $10k in a project, a piece of equipment, or something else. They often find that spending money is less about the amount than the time it takes to recoup an investment.

I wonder how many of you look at a $100,000 purchased and don't see the value returned. Perhaps you've seen your company spend $10mm and you wonder if there was any rationale behind the purchase.

Dealing with any amount of money is hard when you don't necessarily have all the information, and you're not used to spending at that scale. I know each time I've bought a bigger house, it's been a bit of a shock and created anxiety. However, when I look back years later, I often feel differently.

I wonder how many of you feel that way about purchases by your organizations over time.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Monitoring the Number of Connections

Andy Warren from SQLServerCentral.com

Monitoring your SQL Server is important. This article examines one of the metrics you might want to keep an eye on.

Partitioned Tables Cause Longer Plan Compilation Times

Additional Articles from Brent Ozar Unlimited Blog

Folks sometimes ask, “When a table has more indexes, and SQL Server has more decisions to make, does that slow down execution plan generation?”. Brent Ozar talks through his response in this article.

Customizing Database Deployments using Flyway Callbacks and Placeholders

Additional Articles from Redgate

How to customize a database deployment process using Flyway, demonstrating how to incorporate tasks such stamping a version number into the latest database build, or writing to the SQL Server log.

From the SQL Server Central Blogs - The PASS Pro Videos are Live

Steve Jones - SSC Editor from The Voice of the DBA

The PASS Pro program was an interesting educational opportunity that came out last year. A number of people subscribed, including me. I did this more to support the org...

From the SQL Server Central Blogs - Creating presentations with Reveal and Github pages

dbafromthecold@gmail.com from The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

I really don’t like Powerpoint. I’ll do pretty much anything to avoid writing a presentation in it. Thankfully for the last few years there’s been a service called GitPitch...

 

  Question of the Day

Today's question (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor):
 

Shortcutting Git Commands
If I want to make a shortcut in Git so that I can type "git co" instead of "git checkout", what should I run for this to work in all repos on my machine?

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  Yesterday's Question of the Day (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor)

SQL Server 2019 PMEM

For SQL Server 2019 on Linux, what is PMEM?

Answer: A way to use a persistent memory aware file system

Explanation: This makes use of what is called enlightened IO, where a memory mapped file system can improve the performance of your database. Ref: Configure persistent memory (PMEM) for SQL Server on Linux - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-configure-pmem?view=sql-server-ver15

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Database Pros Who Need Your Help

Here's a few of the new posts today on the forums. To see more, visit the forums.
SQL Server 2017 - Administration
Remote Registry service and Get-DbaProductKey - Hello , I have to do an SQL license audit I try to use the command dbatools Get-DbaProductKey except that this command requires starting the Remote Registry service AVERTISSEMENT : [09:59:19][Get-DbaProductKey] Can't access registry for DESKTOP-95KKMMH. Is the Remote Registry service started? AVERTISSEMENT : [09:59:21][Find-DbaInstance] Failed to execute Service Principal Name discovery | Exception lors de l'appel […]
SQL Server 2017 - Development
%% Breakdown - I have a query that calculates revenue by Region per month, per year. So, the end result should look something like: Region Year Month Revenue --------------------------------- Europe 2021 01 20% Europe 2021 02 21% Americas 2021 01 80% Americas 2021 02 79% The last column is produced by: ,CONCAT( CAST(ROUND(Revenue/SUM(Revenue) OVER(),4)*100 AS DECIMAL (19,2)) , […]
Getting Total Spending/Purchase of Unique Customers against Each Store - TSQL - I have a requirement where purchases (spending) of customers made at different stores are provided in transactions table. It is required that What are the total purchases made at each store. How many unique/distinct customers made purchases at each store. What are the total purchase of those unique customer at all stores. Challenge I am […]
Grouping Issue for Emails - Greetings, I am trying to organize contact emails based on very specific criteria and would appreciate some guidance. This info is coming from 3 tables and my requirements are:  Columns:  ContactId,  Default email, Default Email type, Second Email, Second Email Type, Third Email, Third Email Type  If a contact has 1 email, it populates the […]
SQL Server 2016 - Development and T-SQL
Please help to get duration between two 4 or 3 character string -   DATEDIFF(minute, CONVERT(varchar,[begin_time],8) , CONVERT(varchar,[end_time],8)) as [duration] this was not worked for me could you please help above 3 formats how to get duration
SQL 2012 - General
How to write query generate unique Id for concate both columns search parts and - I work on sql server 2012 . I face issue I can't generate unique Id from merge or concave both columns Search Parts and Company ID and generated Id must be on column Generated ID to be easier and fast on search so Please How to generate unique Id from both column Search Parts and […]
when search on long text on table have 40 milion rows it is very slow so what i - I work on SQL server 2012 I need to search on table partswithcompany that have 40 million rows . when make select SearchParts, CompanyId from partswithcompany where CompanyId=1234 and SearchParts='A5ghf7598fdmlcpghjk' it is very slow to re but it take too much long time when make select data from table or when using where condition is […]
SQL Server 2012 - T-SQL
Compare two versions of SQL to limit data within 2 years - Hi, I need to limit my data within 2 years, now I have no version of scripts, but I'm not sure which one is better, especially for the first one, I don't quite understand if it's necessary to prepare the 2nd temp table. hope you can guide me, thanks. V1: with cte_filterdates as ( select top 1 [month] maxdate, dateadd(year, -2, cast(convert (varchar(max), [month])+ '01' as date)) mindate from TableA with(nolock) order by [month] desc ), […]
SQL Server 2019 - Administration
opening a database - I am new to SQL. I successfully installed SQL server on a win10 PRO box at home. I connected to a SQL server instance on my home machine. I can create a database and work on it as described here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/quickstarts/ssms-connect-query-sql-server?view=sql-server-ver15 However, I want to investigate an already created database from another machine at my […]
SSRS 2014
upgrade/migrate from SSRS 2014 to SSRS 2019 - I'm currently running SQL Server 2014 (Enterprise Edition) using SSRS 2014 (Native mode) to create reports for my employer. I am also using Visual Studio 2013 Shell (Integrated) to create my reports. I'm wanting to know if I can upgrade the SSRS 2014 (Native mode) to SSRS 2019 (Native mode) while still keeping my SQL […]
General
Python Calculation in Euler Project problem - Ahoi, since i am learning python i am trying to work myself through the "Euler Project" questions. Currently i am stuck because i can't find WHY my solution produces the wrong answer. Obviously there are other solutions and implementations out there but i do not understand why mine does not output the correct solution although […]
Powershell
Refresh Power BI Report Server Dataset with Powershell and SQL Agent - Hi, I have had the below script running for approx 12 months and after a power BI Upgrade on Friday last, it has stopped working. I can manually work around it but it would be nice to get it working again. Current PowerBI Report Server version: Version 1.10.7698.27886 (January 2021). The error is "The remote […]
Integration Services
SSIS Installation for Visual Studio - Dear Group: I have two versions of Visual Studio installed:  VS 2015 and VS 2017 on two different machines. As such, my question is two fold as each has an issue. VS 2015:  I am able to create SSIS packages in VS 2015 and I am trying to build a package that works with Excel […]
Lookup Match n No Match - I would like to compare two files, that should give me. a Match and No Match output in separite tables. Can somebody send ma screenshot/link of such a ssis package         -_----------------- Can somebody tell me, does the following task have to be do difficult? https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByFnKe4djAO-Y1JPYktEbVBCQTdkM1ZsSG1jY0k3dmRLbDdz/view?usp=drivesdk
Suggestions
How to contact a Moderator? - Maybe it is obvious and I have missed it, but I couldn't find a way to contact a moderator (I found the CONTACT US page with email address of Webmaster ... but I am not sure that would be the appropriate route) The reason for my request was because I was trying to QUOTE a message […]
 

 

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