#large databases

[thedbahub]

Azure Backup vs SQL Backup for Large Azure SQL Server VMs

Introduction If you’re running SQL Server on an Azure VM with multi-terabyte databases, choosing the right backup strategy is critical. Should you use Azure Backup or native SQL Server backups? As a data platform consultant, I’ve helped many clients navigate this decision. In this article, I’ll share the key pros and cons of each approach to help you make the best choice for your scenario. By…

[amystarrstuff]

part 5 (part 4)

[wundrousarts]

Any Nevermoor fans in Adelaide??? I am desperate to know what Jess might mention about Silverborn at the Adelaide Festival 😭😭😭

[pilmyeol]

my mom came in to talk to me about the job she got by being insane about card games she is truly living the dream

[bird-goofle]

A series of news:

The bad: I am ill for the next week or so.

The good: feels like a remarkably mild cold. I’d be out doing things if I had ways to make sure others won’t catch this.

The grey area: I recently had the thought that I almost wish I had worse symptoms about this because then I could be fucking up Google’s ai training by writing the wildest fever-induced fanfics I can think of into google drive, and now I’m kinda sad about it

[ironagefyxen]

Door fittings (possibly depicting panthers), France, c.11th century

[goldensunset]

forgot to update my pinned post bc i am in denial about the way i tried to redo my tagging system but the tag replacer is down so it’s like i’ve torn up several weeds out of my garden but not nearly all of them yet and there’s a ton of dirt scattered everywhere already. i don’t want to acknowledge it

[mr-jaybird]

git bash save me. save me git bash

[mercymornsimpathizer]

yall will be pleased to know that i have read the first 100 or so pages of monster and i am already obsessed with tain shir

[digitalintelligigencearchive]

Hi, Owen. Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?

No, Is that a play?

[boypr1ncesss]

genuinely obsessed w the high of finding undocumented gundam figures and adding them to mfc . like i haven't felt this alive since i was using my dad's university connections (he's a professor) to take out books of med lit from various college libraries so i could scan them . i love archiving

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

lmfao someone who commissioned AI generated images from Bing and tagged them as “fanart” tried to follow me, an actual digital artist. Blocked.

[streetsrot]

HUMANS OF NIGHT CITY - CASSANDRA MONTEIL. aka important npcs to v's story, inspired by the official humans of night city posts ⸻ word count: 1k. tw: abuse, kidnapping, torture, drugs tldr; cass is v's wealthy corpo ex who betrayed her in a series of fucked up events that resulted in her kidnapping, torturing, and drugging v in order to save her own hide.

⸻

cass is v's ex-girlfriend, a legacy corpo who grew up being trained for the cutthroat, competitive chess board that is life when working for any major corporation. cassandra's parents are high level executives at militech, a position she herself now holds. she meets v when the both of them are in their late teens, in the late 2060s. with the unification war brewing and eventually reaching a peak, cass distances herself from her family, wanting to find her own path and break away from the corporate world she's known her whole life. she disavows corporations entirely and she has dreams of working as a media, focusing on boots-on-the-ground journalism. cassandra begins hanging out around mercs and though she sticks out like a sore thumb, she's charming enough that nobody questions it.

this is how she meets v.

the two of them hit it off after v saves cass's life during a regular shootout in heywood. accepting cass's offer to go out for drinks afterwards is one of v's biggest regrets in life. cassandra falls fast, in love with the idea of v and fascinated by the thrilling, high stakes lifestyle that she lives. v warms up to cassandra slowly, unable to shake the worry that anyone from a family like the monteils can't be trusted. every time her doubts come up, v reminds herself that cass has no contact with her family, and cass always seems to find a way to do something nice for v. she showers her in gifts, in loving affirmations, and she frequently makes little moves that fulfill v's desires for physical touch. before long, v is smitten.

their relationship is an intense one, filled almost entirely with soaring highs — an extended honeymoon phase that seems like it will never end. until cassandra messes with night corp. in her efforts to write a tell-all on the elusive, secretive corporation she finds herself wrapped up in a web of her own making and it's not long until night corp catches onto the fact that she's robbed them of restricted files. the corporation assumes she's done it to report back to militech. suddenly, her big break into journalism could be the destruction of a company that's already in the middle of a war, and should night corp work with arasaka, could mean the permanent end to militech's presence in night city. it would mean the brutal torture and execution of her parents and once night corp caught up to her, it would certainly mean worse for her.

out of options and unsure of what to do, she reaches out to her parents and explains the situation. cass, with the help of her mother, crafts a plan that ensures not just her and her family's survival but establishes her as the hero in the whole situation. she makes v, the unloved streetrat with no family, the fall guy. the story she spins states that v, an up and coming merc, stole from night corp in an attempt to hit the major leagues. cass caught word of it, reported the actions back to militech, who, in a show of good faith and as an olive branch during wartime, sent cass to retrieve the stolen materials from v in whatever manner she thought best. that way, they could be returned where they rightfully belonged.

not a word of her story is true.

cass drugs v, waiting for her to pass out and once she does, she slots a datashard into her that plants false memories so that when v awakens, she makes no attempt to deny what she's done. private solos retrieve v's body, throw her into a trunk of a car, and eventually restrain her in an undisclosed drop point. she comes to and finds herself bound and woozy, face to face with cass's mother who explains that "her daughter simply lied to get close to her". when cass arrives, v expects her to deny this. she never does. cass tells herself that she is doing this for her survival, for the survival of her family, and that, as much as she loved v, v likely would have ended up dead in an alley someday soon anyways. this way, she would be dying so another could live.

cass hands v over to night corp where she is interrogated and tortured for days on end. she never expects to see v again, and she assumes her dead as tensions are smoothed between militech and night corp. in reality, the corrupted data slotted into v's head is discovered by a night corp netrunner, tasked with traversing through v's memories. the data is wiped and soon after, v pieces together the truth of what's happened. in light of new knowledge, night corp strikes a deal with v: if she hacks into militech and wipes the copy of the files militech has surely made, she can walk free. but, if she is discovered in this operation, the corporation will claim v escaped from detainment and is acting of her own free will.

v is never caught. days later, a fire breaks out in cassandra monteil's japantown apartment. the rest of the apartment building remains untouched, but due to "mechanical failure", the sprinklers in the penthouse space are never triggered. all that's left in the apartment is a warning : if i ever see you again, i'll kill you myself.

in the year 2077, cassandra has followed in the footsteps of her parents; the end of her relationship with v denoting the end of her dreams as well. she has turned into everything a younger version of herself swore she would never be, but she excels tremendously as an elite corpo for militech and, because of this, looks back scornfully on her youth, scoffing at the idea that she had ever dared to dream of being something else.

v and cass have yet to directly cross paths again, though the chances are high. despite this, the events of her relationship with cass have left a mental scarring on v that she has never fully healed from. while she is by no means closed off to the idea of love or long-term relationships, she does have some trust issues that she hasn't realized are abnormal. v does not speak of cassandra or discuss the events that led to their separation unless she is extremely close with the individual she is speaking with.

[doedipus]

I feel like at this point I've established enough of a workflow with the menu/calendar and worksheet things that I don't actually need to "borrow" stuff from that one site anymore if I don't want to, which is great because a lot of the sample images they have on that site are so small that even waifu2x can't save them, and I'm running out of the ones that are usable

[kingscythe]

I! AM SO!! SICK!!!! OF APPS AND SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES AND ALGORITHMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS!!!!!!!!!! ILL BE TRYING TO WATCH, HELL EVEN JUST FIND A MOVIE AND THE STUPID, GODFORSAKEN APP IS FULL!!!!! OF MEANINGLESS!!!! CLUTTER!!!!!!!!!!! "HERES WHATS NEW ON NETFLIX TODAY" "HERES SOME SHOWS WE THINK YOULL LOVE" NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP TALKING TO ME!! AS AN EQUAL!!!!!!! DO NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!! PRESUME TO KNOW ME WELL ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT I WANT BETTER THAN I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM SO SO SO SO SOOOOOOOOOOO GODDAMN SICK OF THIS!!!! I WANT TO HAVE MY MEDIA, THAT I CHOSE AND I PAYED FOR, BURNED TO A DISK THAT I OWN, IN AN ORDER AND CATEGORIZATION DECIDED BY MYSELF AND MYSELF ALONE, AND IF ANYONE WISHES TO TAKE IT FROM ME, THEY HAVE TO KILL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[arolesbianism]

Was going to do some oni file digging but got too distracted playing the actual video game. Anyways look at her <3