I called something "a machine that goes PING!" in a meeting today... Then I had to explain the reference to a coworker fresh out of college. Is Monty Python no longer a nerd standard?

@zacstraub.com Either our prayers or our curses have been heard. Not sure which one though. 🤣

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

I did a bad thing. I looked at the source code and searched for "TrustServerCertificate". This is with valid certificates issued by a widely trusted CA on each SQL instance I manage. Not sure if I should scream, claw out my eyes, or break out one of the Three Wisemen.

Azure Database Administrator certification renewed for another year... With only one good eye, while on head-down doctor's orders. Did my retina detach just to give me the time to take the renewal assessment?

Quarterly datacenter maintenance tonight... Read-only Friday morphs into "burn it down Friday night" only once every three months!

Boxing Day Cricket in Melbourne! Temps will be over 100 F... Hard to believe just a few days ago I was shoveling six inches of snow in Wisconsin.

Some look at a disaster recovery test as "oh great, I have to work on a Saturday"... I prefer to look at it as "Great! I get to break our most important internal website and people will thank me for it!"

It's time for the databases to unwind after a long week of work.

Happy Read-only Friday to everyone who wants to enjoy the weekend! 😄