Garry Bargsley

@McDonalds Is there a way to get my order delivered from another location using your App?

Email. Slack. Teams. Jira. Texts. Meeting invites. The drive-by "hey". Everyone thinks their thing is the emergency. I call it Input Fatigue, and it's killing deep work in tech. Something a little different on the blog this week 👇 garrybargsley.com/2026/04/28/the… #SQLServer #DBA

@way0utwest Done on my laptop. Love the fix for the connection dialog.

SSMs 22.5 is out. Anyone upgrading on release day? Or holding off?

@sonicdrivein recently killed their UX as well.

@dominos what did you do to the app?! I can see like 1/3 of what I used to see and I have an iPhone Pro Max. Not a helpful UX. Give me an option to switch back to classic mode!

@DFWAirport @dfwairportpolice You failed today on managing traffic and a wreck at terminal E this morning. There should never be stopped all lanes on the entire arrival deck. Do better and think about your patrons.

@SetraHost My website has been down for two hours. Can you help?

And the day goes on!! #PASSDataSummit

Here we go. #PASSDataSummit

The fun is starting. I cannot wait to see the latest and greatest in data technologies. #PASSDataSummit

Let the festivities begin. #PASSDataSummit

@way0utwest The cert and key is encrypted with the smk

@gbargsley Are the keys encrypting data encrypted with the dmk? No password or cert?

#sqlhelp I have a table that uses column encryption. The master key password is lost. I need to setup replication to a subscriber for this table. I cannot create the master key on the subscriber since no one knows the password on publisher. Thoughts?

@DShower_VFE Installing Plug In now. Thanks

@gbargsley I prefer reading T-SQL in Notepad++ with Poor Man's T-Sql Formatter plug-in if formatting is needed. I didn't see a setting in SSMS to do what you asked about.

#sqlhelp I was wondering if anyone knows in SSMS 19 and 20 what setting I can change to not bring up the connection window when I click New Query. I open SSMS in an empty environment and sometime just want a new query to paste code and read, but not connect to a server.

@BuckWoodyMSFT @MrDavidSeis That is cool. Congrats on the next gen DBA.

@BuckWoodyMSFT You willing to sell the Database Administrator Parking Only sign?

Without telling me your age, what's your favorite kid TV show growing up? Gifs only!

@WiseDATAman Does DBA dash allow you to track unused tables in a database?

The latest version of DBA Dash can now track your table space and growth across all your SQL Server instances. dbadash.com/blog/whats-new… Free & open source (MIT License)