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Re: Review: Ash of Necrossus - Ash of Necrossus, Part I: Predicated by the Maw of Time - The Progressive Subway

mbourgon — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:52 -0000

dammit, now I want that album!

Re: Autoscaling Azure SQL HyperScale for better cost management

mbourgon — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:08:55 -0000

Thanks for that! Ran into the same thing with standard serverless, and wound up moving to provisioned instead... but this is genius and I'm going to try and implement it.

Re: Lost In Time: Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors - The Progressive Subway

mbourgon — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:32:11 -0000

I cannot say enough good things about Star-Crossed and Kinetic. It can get too weird for its own good, but yeah, amazing.

Re: 'I've spent my entire career trying to recreate the feeling I had when I played D&D for the first time,' says immersive sim godfather Warren Spector, with new game Thick as Thieves going multiplaye...

mbourgon — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:01:06 -0000

No, he's not wrong, and that's why I play BG3, Wildermyth, NWN, Helldivers, etc - you're all working together against the game. I don't want PVPVE, I want P&PVE!

Re: How to Use SQL Audit and Azure Log Analytics to Comply with Audit Rules

mbourgon — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:49:43 -0000

Interesting way to handle that - I came looking for "how to have the audit save into blob storage so that log analytics could read it from there", but this is overall simpler... provided you're not going to blow out the log. :D

Re: Lost in Time: Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies - The Progressive Subway

mbourgon — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 22:49:08 -0000

Their “serial killer” version of Sunshine is my favorite. That album is fantastic, and Say So is fantastic (and their live shows you can buy like Live At The Space are phenomenal). Land Animal was great, and… and I’m cautiously looking forward to the next one.

Re: Review: Botanist - Paleobotany - The Progressive Subway

mbourgon — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:07:43 -0000

Post-black/post-metal with hammered dulcimers sounds awesome - know of any more? I know of one other black-metal album, but I’m more a melo-death/math/djent guy and haven’t found anything

Re: SP_SENDMAIL_DBMAIL How it Works, Stuck Emails and Purge InternalMailQueue.

mbourgon — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:03:16 -0000

Thanks for this. I had always stayed away from DatabaseMail (except for using msdb's service-broker-enabled database) because I had read that DatabaseMail was a Service Broker consumer, that IT read the SB messages. Now that I need an external consumer of this, I can just work around the service broker part and read/send/then modify the records in the system tables, tricking DatabaseMail. What could go wrong?! :D

Re: Review: Sgàile - Traverse the Bealach - The Progressive Subway

mbourgon — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 01:15:49 -0000

I got this based on a recommendation from both your site and Angry Metal Guy, and absolutely adore this. The underlying music is great, lots of changes, lots of instruments, the soaring leads, the chugging riffs… But what makes it shine are the vocals. And, as a guy who usually only does instrumental music, that’s saying something.

Re: Missed Album Review: Finsterforst - Jenseits - The Progressive Subway

mbourgon — Wed, 15 May 2024 16:25:51 -0000

Okay, I read y’all so I might have come across this here. This album is the epic follow-up to Moonsorrow’s V/Havitetty that moonsorrow didn’t write. This is so epic and grandiose and awesome.

Re: Haute42 T16 Review – A Near Perfect Leverless Controller?

mbourgon — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 14:16:37 -0000

Were you just bound and determined to never say what the hell a leverless controller is? I’m guessing “no stick”, but Jesus spell out what this is and why.

Re: The Benefits of Volunteering at SQL Saturdays

mbourgon — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 11:23:14 -0000

Having spoken at over a dozen SqlSat events, it’s even better than that. It’s the joy of being in a room of The Best People - smart, friendly, welcoming, and knowledgeable. It recharges my batteries.

Re: Review: The Chronicles of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales of Airoea – Book 1 - The Progressive Subway

mbourgon — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:13:29 -0000

First of all, while you guys go in for progressive rock, the fact that you are reviewing this surprised the hell out of me! I figured this was far too much in the prog vein.

I’m really glad you enjoyed it; I came to it after listening to the Eliesion Forest track on Bandcamp, which got me super excited for a Wobbler – like band. They are definitely that in that one track, but the rest of the album is far too floaty and tranquil, IMHO. Pretty, don’t get me wrong, but I wanted more OOMPH than just one track on the album, given that that was the “teaser”.

Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s time to go listen to Fire Fortellinger again. :)

Re: WE FINALLY HAVE A WORKING COMMENT SECTION!!!

mbourgon — Fri, 19 May 2023 01:08:51 -0000

Honestly, 99% of the time I’m just reading off the RSS feed, but I enjoy y’all’s take on things, even if y’all go a bit too tech death for me. But mention some mellotron and I’m back. :)

Re: Japanese Marinated Soft Boiled Egg for Ramen (Ajitsuke Tamago)

mbourgon — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 20:45:08 -0000

I am so freaking confused and annoyed. Eggs went into the anova at 156.5, since I wanted soft boiled, not the weird uncooked mess. After an hour, the yolk was cooked a bit too much, and the white was super runny.

Re: Puzzler Illustrated From Patterned Developer BorderLeap Is Out Now on Apple Arcade

mbourgon — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 12:11:45 -0000

Could you at least link whatever the amazing first game for the month was?

Re: Understanding Backups for Azure SQL Database

mbourgon — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 15:55:07 -0000

The important question: what's the difference in cost between doing that and just dumping them to blob storage?

Re: Export Microsoft Teams Chat Conversations using PowerShell

mbourgon — Wed, 11 May 2022 16:22:55 -0000

Just FYI, there are now modules that will do a bunch of it, though parts of it are somewhat limited. https://github.com/microsof...

Re: PowerShell – The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.

mbourgon — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:33:01 -0000

Color me stunned and happy. Literally started having this happen today with Teams Webhooks. this fixed it.

Re: English language confusion

mbourgon — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:38:51 -0000

It’s always in flux. And we only ever know once the dust has settled. For example: periods! Supposedly two spaces after a period is old and antiquated and has been dead since the 60s, but I was taught it in the 80s/90s! Maybe the Gibson quote applies for grammar, too? “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed”.

Re: Using sp_server_diagnostics

mbourgon — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 13:09:08 -0000

Yeah, but a lot of that is still exposed through the XE ring buffers. A lot of what it's doing here is logged there as well, though not explicity called out as sp_server_diag.

Re: SQL Snippets Galore, Added to SQL Prompt

mbourgon — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:26:33 -0000

Oh great and wise Phil Factor, might you have a way to convert your existing sqlpromptsnippet files to the new JSON format that SQL Prompt now uses?

Re: Exporting and importing data from Amazon Aurora MySQL to Amazon S3

mbourgon — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:32:18 -0000

Thanks for this. The next question, obviously, is "how the heck do you do that
automatically?" I know you can do this somehow with Lambda and a Cloudwatch Alert, but an actual example (especially the lambda) would be _REALLY_ appreciated.

Re: The SQL Server 2016 Query Store: Forcing Execution Plans using the Query Store

mbourgon — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:43:16 -0000

Probably not useful to your case anymore, but for others coming across this.

If you only have a couple queries that regress when you move to 130, then your best bet is to add the traceflag that forces those couple queries to use the old CE. There are traceflags to force the new CE and the old CE. Additionally, look at your queries - the new CE can't figure out a good plan for a reason. Personally. I love being able to force the plans with QS, but it's easier for most people to see that the query has a hint. We have a couple plans forced, and a wiki page in case people run across one that's just not acting right. Yes, if you wanted to you could flip the compatibility level to 2012, get the plan, then change back to 2016 and use QS to force it, but for me it's better to deploy a new version of the SP with that traceflag.

In your case, you could probably get away with taking the one query and adding the "use the new CE" traceflag, but remember that in a few years, that's not going to be an option anymore, since you're going to have to use it. Now, that's probably 5 years from now, but it bears mentioning.

Re: Apollo 11: Mission Out of Control

mbourgon — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 18:46:39 -0000

Okay, so I’m confused. I’d heard the story several times, but I’d thought the person who wrote it was Margaret Hamilton. So how did these people/groups relate to each other?