Bing Chatbot vs ChatGPT (2023-06-05)

SQLServerCentral Newsletter for June 5, 2023 Problems displaying this newsletter? [View online](. [SQL Server Central]( Featured Contents - [Bing Chatbot vs ChatGPT]( - [Flyway for SQL Server Data Tools Users]( - [How to Filter a SQL Server Audit with a Predicate]( - [From the SQL Server Central Blogs - Backup Encryption Performance]( - [From the SQL Server Central Blogs - SSAS Tabular: “SortByColumn property set to invalid column ID”]( - [Azure SQL Revealed: A Guide to the Cloud for SQL Server]( Question of the Day - [Refresh Limits]( The Voice of the DBA  How Many Days Can You Survive? I saw [a great post from DCAC on disaster plans]( and using them after a fire in an LA data center. DCAC wasn't affected, and I wouldn't expect them to be. Denny, Joey, Monica, John, Kerry, and Meagan are all experts in running systems efficiently and effectively. They think about how to ensure that things keep working in the event of disasters and have delivered presentations all over the world helping you become better at managing your own servers. However, Denny brings up a great question in the post. How many days could you survive without IT systems? Days? Weeks? Have you ever been in that situation? I'm sure many of us have experienced a failure of some sort. An application crash, hardware dying, or most commonly, Internet access being cut. All of these are small disasters, which typically are fixed quickly. Hopefully, these aren't issues you experience every week. If you do, maybe you need to call DCAC or someone else and fix more fundamental issues. While it's unlikely that you lose all your systems, it could happen if you concentrate your resources in one data center, one region, one cloud provider, etc. Having a single point of failure is something we try to avoid in IT, and that is true not just for one application, but for your infrastructure design. Most of us depend on one authentication system, and a failure of our Active Directory could lock everyone out of a system. Those are rare, and hopefully, your administrators have enough redundancy (and backups) to recover from this type of disaster. I have experienced a few large failures at one enterprise. We had a few viruses, including the [SQL Slammer worm]( in the early 2000s. Our network was shut down for a couple of days, when almost all systems from email to CRM to ticketing systems weren't available. Everyone had to use whatever paper systems they could to keep business running. While we likely lost some revenue from these outages, we learned we could survive a few days without our network. We also learned that we needed better virus scanning and education for employees, as well as a few more resources for tech people. Before those events, everyone assumed an outage was bad, but had no idea how bad. I have no idea how much this cost us, but it didn't appear in a [10-Q]( so it must not have been too bad. I think there are lots of businesses that could find ways to continue to work if some systems were down. However, there can be costs, sometimes significant. Even if the company doesn't go out of business, perhaps some people get terminated because of less revenue. That might not be the tech person in the short term, but how would you feel if your DR plan didn't work (or you didn't have one) and some co-workers were let go? The move to the cloud, and the move to more software-as-a-service systems, might help you better survive local disasters, but if you have too many systems concentrated in one place, it is worth preparing for some contingency. After all, even if this fire were to happen in an Azure or AWS data center, it's possible that their process to move and restore all the systems from one data center to another could take time. Your systems might not even be their top priority as cloud vendors have some large customers. It probably won't take months, but I wouldn't want to bet my job on any cloud vendor getting everything moved in less than a week. If you're not in the cloud, make sure you have a plan. If you don't know how to do that, call DCAC or another consultant to help you. Steve Jones - SSC Editor [Join the debate, and respond to today's editorial on the forums](   Featured Contents [SQLServerCentral Article]( [Bing Chatbot vs ChatGPT]( Daniel Calbimonte from SQLServerCentral A comparison of ChatGPT and the Bing Chat AI to see which one might be more useful for a user. [External Article]( [Flyway for SQL Server Data Tools Users]( Additional Articles from Redgate If you are using SSDT for authoring, building, debugging, and publishing a database project, how do you change to, or preferably migrate towards, a Flyway-based database development? Flyway doesn't need to replace any code part of SSDT, but if allowed to manage every release candidate, it does allow for much cleaner branching, merging, and deployments. [External Article]( [How to Filter a SQL Server Audit with a Predicate]( Additional Articles from MSSQLTips.com SQL Server Auditing utilizes Extended Events in SQL Server. Although it is a feature-rich native solution available in all editions, you'll realize that when you start configuring the Audit and Specifications the filter options are not that widely documented or intuitive. [Blog Post]( From the SQL Server Central Blogs - [Backup Encryption Performance]( Matthew McGiffen from Matthew McGiffen DBA Unlike TDE, there is some extra CPU overhead when you take an encrypted backup as the data has to be encrypted before being written to disk – whereas with... [Blog Post]( From the SQL Server Central Blogs - [SSAS Tabular: “SortByColumn property set to invalid column ID”]( Joyful Craftsmen from Joyful Craftsmen Blog Recently I was doing a cleanup of one model, and I used Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) in Tabular Editor as a helper. Later, I realized I forgot to set... [Azure SQL Revealed]( [Azure SQL Revealed: A Guide to the Cloud for SQL Server]( Site Owners from SQLServerCentral Access detailed content and examples on Azure SQL, a set of cloud services that allows for SQL Server to be deployed in the cloud. This book teaches the fundamentals of deployment, configuration, security, performance, and availability of Azure SQL from the perspective of these same tasks and capabilities in SQL Server. This distinct approach makes this book an ideal learning platform for readers familiar with SQL Server on-premises who want to migrate their skills toward providing cloud solutions to an enterprise market that is increasingly cloud-focused.   Question of the Day Today's question (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor):  Refresh Limits Can I use sp_refreshsqlmodule to check the metadata for CLR stored procedures and functions? Think you know the answer? [Click here]( and find out if you are right.    Yesterday's Question of the Day (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor) Contained AG Databases Which system databases are included in a SQL Server 2022 Contained Availability Group? Answer: master and msdb Explanation: In a contained AG (Availability Group), the master and msdb databases are contained. Ref: What is a contained availability group? - [ [Discuss this question and answer on the forums](    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 [Vulnerability Assessment removed?]( - In Brent Ozar's list of links today, I learned that Microsoft has removed the Vulnerability Assessment tool from SSMS as of v19.1. 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