Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern) Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern) Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara Unicorn Meta Zoo #1: Why another podcast?The Many Memes of MetaWhich tools and technologies are used to build the Stack Exchange Network?Recent Reputation History ChangesShould we get rid of all the tag synonyms which differ by only one or more hyphens?Operation 'Split, All The Metas!' Shall Commence On April 16, 2014A Terms of Service update restricting companies that scrape your profile information without your permissionBrief outage planned for Wed, May 3, 2017 at 8pm US/Eastern (00:00 UTC) (like a fire drill for computers)Brief maintenances planned for Sat, July 8 & 22, 2017 both at 14:00 UTC (10AM US/Eastern)Brief maintenances planned for Sat, July 22, 2017 at 00:01 UTC (Fri July 21, 8pm US/Eastern)What criteria should we use to determine which review queue indicator a site will have?Planned maintenance scheduled for March 17, 2018 at 13:00 UTC (9AM US/Eastern)Planned maintenance scheduled for July 14, 2018 at 13:00 UTC (9AM US/Eastern)

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Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern)



Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern)
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Unicorn Meta Zoo #1: Why another podcast?The Many Memes of MetaWhich tools and technologies are used to build the Stack Exchange Network?Recent Reputation History ChangesShould we get rid of all the tag synonyms which differ by only one or more hyphens?Operation 'Split, All The Metas!' Shall Commence On April 16, 2014A Terms of Service update restricting companies that scrape your profile information without your permissionBrief outage planned for Wed, May 3, 2017 at 8pm US/Eastern (00:00 UTC) (like a fire drill for computers)Brief maintenances planned for Sat, July 8 & 22, 2017 both at 14:00 UTC (10AM US/Eastern)Brief maintenances planned for Sat, July 22, 2017 at 00:01 UTC (Fri July 21, 8pm US/Eastern)What criteria should we use to determine which review queue indicator a site will have?Planned maintenance scheduled for March 17, 2018 at 13:00 UTC (9AM US/Eastern)Planned maintenance scheduled for July 14, 2018 at 13:00 UTC (9AM US/Eastern)










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Update 2019-04-18: We have hit some unexpected issues and are postponing the maintenance. The new target is Tuesday, April 23rd pending several dependencies.





tl;dr: Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, Chat, and Teams. All sites will be read-only for up to an hour during the maintenance. Enterprise cloud hosted instances will not be impacted.



Short Version:



There will be a service degradation for up to an hour this upcoming week - possibly April 23rd 17th or 18th, 2019 at 00:00 UTC (8PM US/Eastern). During that time questions and answers will still display, job listings will still work, and job ads will still display. However, the site will be "read only," i.e. people won't appear logged-in, won't be able to add/edit new job listings, apply for jobs, create, edit or vote on questions/comments/answers, reputation won't change, etc. This should minimize the disruption to the majority of casual readers. We will display a banner on the sites stating we're 'read only' for maintenance. We expect that the site will be in a read-only state for less than an hour.



Longer More Technical Version of What’s Happening?



Background



Our primary database servers are currently running on Windows Server 2012. We have two Windows Failover Clusters, one for StackOverflow and one for StackExchange (Careers), each cluster contains 3 database servers. We will be upgrading the servers to Windows Server 2016. During the service interruption, we will be performing a failover of the servers still on Windows 2012 to the servers already on Windows 2016.



What we'll be doing



As mentioned we are using Windows Failover Clustering, along with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, and Distributed Availability Groups to keep our data in sync across various servers, while giving us redundancy in multiple locations (NY and CO). Starting next week, we will be upgrading the operating systems across these servers to Windows Server 2016.



This upgrades involves many moving pieces, but high-level we will be doing the following next week:



  • Monday - we will be removing a NY server (currently a secondary) from an existing Windows Failover Cluster. The server will get a clean install of Windows Server 2016, a new Failover Cluster will be created, SQL Server 2017 will be reinstalled, and we will create new Availability Groups and new Distributed Availability Groups. By doing this, this server should start to receive data from the current primary SQL Server i.e. the one still in the old 2012 cluster.


  • Tuesday - another NY Secondary will follow the same path as the one on Monday.


  • Wednesday - the remote secondaries in CO, will be removed from the old 2012 clusters, rebuilt, and put into the new 2016 failover clusters


At this point, we will have a GO / NO-GO on the failover. If everything goes according to plan and we feel comfortable, then we will perform the failover (scheduled maintenance) on Wednesday, April 17. If anything gets delayed or if there are unexpected issues, then we will push the maintenance to Thursday, April 18 or potentially later.



We will not be moving forward with the failover, until we are comfortable.



When we perform the maintenance, we will be pointing the applications to the new 2016 servers and performing a SQL failover of the Distributed Availability Groups. We expect that the site will be in a read-only state for about an hour. During this time, we will be making progress announcements and updates on @StackStatus, so following along there if you're interested.



This is a very complicated move that we are making, which has been fully tested in a lab environment, but you can never be sure of anything during these types of operations. As Nick Craver said:




Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth - Mike Tyson




Questions or concerns?



Please post a comment or answer below; I'll do my best to address any concerns between now and the maintenance window.










share|improve this question



















  • 34





    I'll cross some fingers for you :P

    – Tim Stone
    Apr 12 at 19:12






  • 10





    @TimStone We need more than that. :)

    – Taryn
    Apr 12 at 19:15






  • 6





    Alright alright, I'll go buy some rum or something too

    – Tim Stone
    Apr 12 at 19:17






  • 93





    As you also take out chat, any chance we might be watching all of this in a live stream? Or do you expect us to go outside, get some fresh air and ... shrug talk to real people during that hour?

    – rene
    Apr 12 at 19:20






  • 4





    @rene I don't think there will be a livestream this time around, unless something changes between now and maintenance day. There are a ton of moving parts and that adds another layer of stuff.

    – Taryn
    Apr 12 at 19:24






  • 28





    Wait... will I have to... go to sleep!?

    – Artemis Fowl
    Apr 12 at 21:35







  • 21





    Looking forward to the upgrade to Server 2019 in six to eight weeks.

    – Michael Hampton
    Apr 13 at 1:29






  • 7





    @MichaelHampton that was the initial plan, but we ran into a lot of issues with it so decided 2016 got us the improvements we wanted on the SQL side. Also the biggest pain is leaving 2012, it wouldn’t be as complicated if we were on 2012 R2.

    – Taryn
    Apr 13 at 1:32







  • 45





    🔺 Thanks for plenty of notice.

    – Rob
    Apr 13 at 2:03






  • 5





    Banner text: We're 'read only' for 60 to 80 minutes for maintenance.

    – TGrif
    Apr 13 at 18:33






  • 3





    Why not take the AWS route, migrate to the cloud?

    – Housemd
    Apr 14 at 6:19






  • 3





    Ha! The AskDifferent, AskUbuntu and Unix StackExchange sites are running on Windows Server :)

    – LogicalBranch
    2 days ago







  • 2





    Why are you using Windows Server?

    – Sean
    2 days ago






  • 2





    Is the maintenance delayed?

    – smileycreations15
    yesterday






  • 4





    It's 8:03 PM Eastern and the site isn't read-only yet; is something wrong?

    – Sean
    23 hours ago















114
















Update 2019-04-18: We have hit some unexpected issues and are postponing the maintenance. The new target is Tuesday, April 23rd pending several dependencies.





tl;dr: Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, Chat, and Teams. All sites will be read-only for up to an hour during the maintenance. Enterprise cloud hosted instances will not be impacted.



Short Version:



There will be a service degradation for up to an hour this upcoming week - possibly April 23rd 17th or 18th, 2019 at 00:00 UTC (8PM US/Eastern). During that time questions and answers will still display, job listings will still work, and job ads will still display. However, the site will be "read only," i.e. people won't appear logged-in, won't be able to add/edit new job listings, apply for jobs, create, edit or vote on questions/comments/answers, reputation won't change, etc. This should minimize the disruption to the majority of casual readers. We will display a banner on the sites stating we're 'read only' for maintenance. We expect that the site will be in a read-only state for less than an hour.



Longer More Technical Version of What’s Happening?



Background



Our primary database servers are currently running on Windows Server 2012. We have two Windows Failover Clusters, one for StackOverflow and one for StackExchange (Careers), each cluster contains 3 database servers. We will be upgrading the servers to Windows Server 2016. During the service interruption, we will be performing a failover of the servers still on Windows 2012 to the servers already on Windows 2016.



What we'll be doing



As mentioned we are using Windows Failover Clustering, along with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, and Distributed Availability Groups to keep our data in sync across various servers, while giving us redundancy in multiple locations (NY and CO). Starting next week, we will be upgrading the operating systems across these servers to Windows Server 2016.



This upgrades involves many moving pieces, but high-level we will be doing the following next week:



  • Monday - we will be removing a NY server (currently a secondary) from an existing Windows Failover Cluster. The server will get a clean install of Windows Server 2016, a new Failover Cluster will be created, SQL Server 2017 will be reinstalled, and we will create new Availability Groups and new Distributed Availability Groups. By doing this, this server should start to receive data from the current primary SQL Server i.e. the one still in the old 2012 cluster.


  • Tuesday - another NY Secondary will follow the same path as the one on Monday.


  • Wednesday - the remote secondaries in CO, will be removed from the old 2012 clusters, rebuilt, and put into the new 2016 failover clusters


At this point, we will have a GO / NO-GO on the failover. If everything goes according to plan and we feel comfortable, then we will perform the failover (scheduled maintenance) on Wednesday, April 17. If anything gets delayed or if there are unexpected issues, then we will push the maintenance to Thursday, April 18 or potentially later.



We will not be moving forward with the failover, until we are comfortable.



When we perform the maintenance, we will be pointing the applications to the new 2016 servers and performing a SQL failover of the Distributed Availability Groups. We expect that the site will be in a read-only state for about an hour. During this time, we will be making progress announcements and updates on @StackStatus, so following along there if you're interested.



This is a very complicated move that we are making, which has been fully tested in a lab environment, but you can never be sure of anything during these types of operations. As Nick Craver said:




Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth - Mike Tyson




Questions or concerns?



Please post a comment or answer below; I'll do my best to address any concerns between now and the maintenance window.










share|improve this question



















  • 34





    I'll cross some fingers for you :P

    – Tim Stone
    Apr 12 at 19:12






  • 10





    @TimStone We need more than that. :)

    – Taryn
    Apr 12 at 19:15






  • 6





    Alright alright, I'll go buy some rum or something too

    – Tim Stone
    Apr 12 at 19:17






  • 93





    As you also take out chat, any chance we might be watching all of this in a live stream? Or do you expect us to go outside, get some fresh air and ... shrug talk to real people during that hour?

    – rene
    Apr 12 at 19:20






  • 4





    @rene I don't think there will be a livestream this time around, unless something changes between now and maintenance day. There are a ton of moving parts and that adds another layer of stuff.

    – Taryn
    Apr 12 at 19:24






  • 28





    Wait... will I have to... go to sleep!?

    – Artemis Fowl
    Apr 12 at 21:35







  • 21





    Looking forward to the upgrade to Server 2019 in six to eight weeks.

    – Michael Hampton
    Apr 13 at 1:29






  • 7





    @MichaelHampton that was the initial plan, but we ran into a lot of issues with it so decided 2016 got us the improvements we wanted on the SQL side. Also the biggest pain is leaving 2012, it wouldn’t be as complicated if we were on 2012 R2.

    – Taryn
    Apr 13 at 1:32







  • 45





    🔺 Thanks for plenty of notice.

    – Rob
    Apr 13 at 2:03






  • 5





    Banner text: We're 'read only' for 60 to 80 minutes for maintenance.

    – TGrif
    Apr 13 at 18:33






  • 3





    Why not take the AWS route, migrate to the cloud?

    – Housemd
    Apr 14 at 6:19






  • 3





    Ha! The AskDifferent, AskUbuntu and Unix StackExchange sites are running on Windows Server :)

    – LogicalBranch
    2 days ago







  • 2





    Why are you using Windows Server?

    – Sean
    2 days ago






  • 2





    Is the maintenance delayed?

    – smileycreations15
    yesterday






  • 4





    It's 8:03 PM Eastern and the site isn't read-only yet; is something wrong?

    – Sean
    23 hours ago













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Update 2019-04-18: We have hit some unexpected issues and are postponing the maintenance. The new target is Tuesday, April 23rd pending several dependencies.





tl;dr: Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, Chat, and Teams. All sites will be read-only for up to an hour during the maintenance. Enterprise cloud hosted instances will not be impacted.



Short Version:



There will be a service degradation for up to an hour this upcoming week - possibly April 23rd 17th or 18th, 2019 at 00:00 UTC (8PM US/Eastern). During that time questions and answers will still display, job listings will still work, and job ads will still display. However, the site will be "read only," i.e. people won't appear logged-in, won't be able to add/edit new job listings, apply for jobs, create, edit or vote on questions/comments/answers, reputation won't change, etc. This should minimize the disruption to the majority of casual readers. We will display a banner on the sites stating we're 'read only' for maintenance. We expect that the site will be in a read-only state for less than an hour.



Longer More Technical Version of What’s Happening?



Background



Our primary database servers are currently running on Windows Server 2012. We have two Windows Failover Clusters, one for StackOverflow and one for StackExchange (Careers), each cluster contains 3 database servers. We will be upgrading the servers to Windows Server 2016. During the service interruption, we will be performing a failover of the servers still on Windows 2012 to the servers already on Windows 2016.



What we'll be doing



As mentioned we are using Windows Failover Clustering, along with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, and Distributed Availability Groups to keep our data in sync across various servers, while giving us redundancy in multiple locations (NY and CO). Starting next week, we will be upgrading the operating systems across these servers to Windows Server 2016.



This upgrades involves many moving pieces, but high-level we will be doing the following next week:



  • Monday - we will be removing a NY server (currently a secondary) from an existing Windows Failover Cluster. The server will get a clean install of Windows Server 2016, a new Failover Cluster will be created, SQL Server 2017 will be reinstalled, and we will create new Availability Groups and new Distributed Availability Groups. By doing this, this server should start to receive data from the current primary SQL Server i.e. the one still in the old 2012 cluster.


  • Tuesday - another NY Secondary will follow the same path as the one on Monday.


  • Wednesday - the remote secondaries in CO, will be removed from the old 2012 clusters, rebuilt, and put into the new 2016 failover clusters


At this point, we will have a GO / NO-GO on the failover. If everything goes according to plan and we feel comfortable, then we will perform the failover (scheduled maintenance) on Wednesday, April 17. If anything gets delayed or if there are unexpected issues, then we will push the maintenance to Thursday, April 18 or potentially later.



We will not be moving forward with the failover, until we are comfortable.



When we perform the maintenance, we will be pointing the applications to the new 2016 servers and performing a SQL failover of the Distributed Availability Groups. We expect that the site will be in a read-only state for about an hour. During this time, we will be making progress announcements and updates on @StackStatus, so following along there if you're interested.



This is a very complicated move that we are making, which has been fully tested in a lab environment, but you can never be sure of anything during these types of operations. As Nick Craver said:




Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth - Mike Tyson




Questions or concerns?



Please post a comment or answer below; I'll do my best to address any concerns between now and the maintenance window.










share|improve this question

















Update 2019-04-18: We have hit some unexpected issues and are postponing the maintenance. The new target is Tuesday, April 23rd pending several dependencies.





tl;dr: Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, Chat, and Teams. All sites will be read-only for up to an hour during the maintenance. Enterprise cloud hosted instances will not be impacted.



Short Version:



There will be a service degradation for up to an hour this upcoming week - possibly April 23rd 17th or 18th, 2019 at 00:00 UTC (8PM US/Eastern). During that time questions and answers will still display, job listings will still work, and job ads will still display. However, the site will be "read only," i.e. people won't appear logged-in, won't be able to add/edit new job listings, apply for jobs, create, edit or vote on questions/comments/answers, reputation won't change, etc. This should minimize the disruption to the majority of casual readers. We will display a banner on the sites stating we're 'read only' for maintenance. We expect that the site will be in a read-only state for less than an hour.



Longer More Technical Version of What’s Happening?



Background



Our primary database servers are currently running on Windows Server 2012. We have two Windows Failover Clusters, one for StackOverflow and one for StackExchange (Careers), each cluster contains 3 database servers. We will be upgrading the servers to Windows Server 2016. During the service interruption, we will be performing a failover of the servers still on Windows 2012 to the servers already on Windows 2016.



What we'll be doing



As mentioned we are using Windows Failover Clustering, along with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, and Distributed Availability Groups to keep our data in sync across various servers, while giving us redundancy in multiple locations (NY and CO). Starting next week, we will be upgrading the operating systems across these servers to Windows Server 2016.



This upgrades involves many moving pieces, but high-level we will be doing the following next week:



  • Monday - we will be removing a NY server (currently a secondary) from an existing Windows Failover Cluster. The server will get a clean install of Windows Server 2016, a new Failover Cluster will be created, SQL Server 2017 will be reinstalled, and we will create new Availability Groups and new Distributed Availability Groups. By doing this, this server should start to receive data from the current primary SQL Server i.e. the one still in the old 2012 cluster.


  • Tuesday - another NY Secondary will follow the same path as the one on Monday.


  • Wednesday - the remote secondaries in CO, will be removed from the old 2012 clusters, rebuilt, and put into the new 2016 failover clusters


At this point, we will have a GO / NO-GO on the failover. If everything goes according to plan and we feel comfortable, then we will perform the failover (scheduled maintenance) on Wednesday, April 17. If anything gets delayed or if there are unexpected issues, then we will push the maintenance to Thursday, April 18 or potentially later.



We will not be moving forward with the failover, until we are comfortable.



When we perform the maintenance, we will be pointing the applications to the new 2016 servers and performing a SQL failover of the Distributed Availability Groups. We expect that the site will be in a read-only state for about an hour. During this time, we will be making progress announcements and updates on @StackStatus, so following along there if you're interested.



This is a very complicated move that we are making, which has been fully tested in a lab environment, but you can never be sure of anything during these types of operations. As Nick Craver said:




Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth - Mike Tyson




Questions or concerns?



Please post a comment or answer below; I'll do my best to address any concerns between now and the maintenance window.







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  • 34





    I'll cross some fingers for you :P

    – Tim Stone
    Apr 12 at 19:12






  • 10





    @TimStone We need more than that. :)

    – Taryn
    Apr 12 at 19:15






  • 6





    Alright alright, I'll go buy some rum or something too

    – Tim Stone
    Apr 12 at 19:17






  • 93





    As you also take out chat, any chance we might be watching all of this in a live stream? Or do you expect us to go outside, get some fresh air and ... shrug talk to real people during that hour?

    – rene
    Apr 12 at 19:20






  • 4





    @rene I don't think there will be a livestream this time around, unless something changes between now and maintenance day. There are a ton of moving parts and that adds another layer of stuff.

    – Taryn
    Apr 12 at 19:24






  • 28





    Wait... will I have to... go to sleep!?

    – Artemis Fowl
    Apr 12 at 21:35







  • 21





    Looking forward to the upgrade to Server 2019 in six to eight weeks.

    – Michael Hampton
    Apr 13 at 1:29






  • 7





    @MichaelHampton that was the initial plan, but we ran into a lot of issues with it so decided 2016 got us the improvements we wanted on the SQL side. Also the biggest pain is leaving 2012, it wouldn’t be as complicated if we were on 2012 R2.

    – Taryn
    Apr 13 at 1:32







  • 45





    🔺 Thanks for plenty of notice.

    – Rob
    Apr 13 at 2:03






  • 5





    Banner text: We're 'read only' for 60 to 80 minutes for maintenance.

    – TGrif
    Apr 13 at 18:33






  • 3





    Why not take the AWS route, migrate to the cloud?

    – Housemd
    Apr 14 at 6:19






  • 3





    Ha! The AskDifferent, AskUbuntu and Unix StackExchange sites are running on Windows Server :)

    – LogicalBranch
    2 days ago







  • 2





    Why are you using Windows Server?

    – Sean
    2 days ago






  • 2





    Is the maintenance delayed?

    – smileycreations15
    yesterday






  • 4





    It's 8:03 PM Eastern and the site isn't read-only yet; is something wrong?

    – Sean
    23 hours ago












  • 34





    I'll cross some fingers for you :P

    – Tim Stone
    Apr 12 at 19:12






  • 10





    @TimStone We need more than that. :)

    – Taryn
    Apr 12 at 19:15






  • 6





    Alright alright, I'll go buy some rum or something too

    – Tim Stone
    Apr 12 at 19:17






  • 93





    As you also take out chat, any chance we might be watching all of this in a live stream? Or do you expect us to go outside, get some fresh air and ... shrug talk to real people during that hour?

    – rene
    Apr 12 at 19:20






  • 4





    @rene I don't think there will be a livestream this time around, unless something changes between now and maintenance day. There are a ton of moving parts and that adds another layer of stuff.

    – Taryn
    Apr 12 at 19:24






  • 28





    Wait... will I have to... go to sleep!?

    – Artemis Fowl
    Apr 12 at 21:35







  • 21





    Looking forward to the upgrade to Server 2019 in six to eight weeks.

    – Michael Hampton
    Apr 13 at 1:29






  • 7





    @MichaelHampton that was the initial plan, but we ran into a lot of issues with it so decided 2016 got us the improvements we wanted on the SQL side. Also the biggest pain is leaving 2012, it wouldn’t be as complicated if we were on 2012 R2.

    – Taryn
    Apr 13 at 1:32







  • 45





    🔺 Thanks for plenty of notice.

    – Rob
    Apr 13 at 2:03






  • 5





    Banner text: We're 'read only' for 60 to 80 minutes for maintenance.

    – TGrif
    Apr 13 at 18:33






  • 3





    Why not take the AWS route, migrate to the cloud?

    – Housemd
    Apr 14 at 6:19






  • 3





    Ha! The AskDifferent, AskUbuntu and Unix StackExchange sites are running on Windows Server :)

    – LogicalBranch
    2 days ago







  • 2





    Why are you using Windows Server?

    – Sean
    2 days ago






  • 2





    Is the maintenance delayed?

    – smileycreations15
    yesterday






  • 4





    It's 8:03 PM Eastern and the site isn't read-only yet; is something wrong?

    – Sean
    23 hours ago







34




34





I'll cross some fingers for you :P

– Tim Stone
Apr 12 at 19:12





I'll cross some fingers for you :P

– Tim Stone
Apr 12 at 19:12




10




10





@TimStone We need more than that. :)

– Taryn
Apr 12 at 19:15





@TimStone We need more than that. :)

– Taryn
Apr 12 at 19:15




6




6





Alright alright, I'll go buy some rum or something too

– Tim Stone
Apr 12 at 19:17





Alright alright, I'll go buy some rum or something too

– Tim Stone
Apr 12 at 19:17




93




93





As you also take out chat, any chance we might be watching all of this in a live stream? Or do you expect us to go outside, get some fresh air and ... shrug talk to real people during that hour?

– rene
Apr 12 at 19:20





As you also take out chat, any chance we might be watching all of this in a live stream? Or do you expect us to go outside, get some fresh air and ... shrug talk to real people during that hour?

– rene
Apr 12 at 19:20




4




4





@rene I don't think there will be a livestream this time around, unless something changes between now and maintenance day. There are a ton of moving parts and that adds another layer of stuff.

– Taryn
Apr 12 at 19:24





@rene I don't think there will be a livestream this time around, unless something changes between now and maintenance day. There are a ton of moving parts and that adds another layer of stuff.

– Taryn
Apr 12 at 19:24




28




28





Wait... will I have to... go to sleep!?

– Artemis Fowl
Apr 12 at 21:35






Wait... will I have to... go to sleep!?

– Artemis Fowl
Apr 12 at 21:35





21




21





Looking forward to the upgrade to Server 2019 in six to eight weeks.

– Michael Hampton
Apr 13 at 1:29





Looking forward to the upgrade to Server 2019 in six to eight weeks.

– Michael Hampton
Apr 13 at 1:29




7




7





@MichaelHampton that was the initial plan, but we ran into a lot of issues with it so decided 2016 got us the improvements we wanted on the SQL side. Also the biggest pain is leaving 2012, it wouldn’t be as complicated if we were on 2012 R2.

– Taryn
Apr 13 at 1:32






@MichaelHampton that was the initial plan, but we ran into a lot of issues with it so decided 2016 got us the improvements we wanted on the SQL side. Also the biggest pain is leaving 2012, it wouldn’t be as complicated if we were on 2012 R2.

– Taryn
Apr 13 at 1:32





45




45





🔺 Thanks for plenty of notice.

– Rob
Apr 13 at 2:03





🔺 Thanks for plenty of notice.

– Rob
Apr 13 at 2:03




5




5





Banner text: We're 'read only' for 60 to 80 minutes for maintenance.

– TGrif
Apr 13 at 18:33





Banner text: We're 'read only' for 60 to 80 minutes for maintenance.

– TGrif
Apr 13 at 18:33




3




3





Why not take the AWS route, migrate to the cloud?

– Housemd
Apr 14 at 6:19





Why not take the AWS route, migrate to the cloud?

– Housemd
Apr 14 at 6:19




3




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Ha! The AskDifferent, AskUbuntu and Unix StackExchange sites are running on Windows Server :)

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    So you mean to say there will be some time when jon skeet's(https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet) reputation will be same for sometime. :) It doesn't happen normally.



    P.S. I would like stackoverflow to move from age old jQuery to Angular or React to provide seamless interface instead of reloading the whole page while moving from one to other.



    Best luck for the launch!






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      That happens more often than you think, due to the rep cap ...

      – Glorfindel
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    • @Glorfindel I don't think I deserve downvote though! :)

      – Pratik C Joshi
      yesterday







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      I didn't downvote you, but I don't really see the point in answers like these. Meta Stack Exchange is a Q&A site, not a discussion forum.

      – Glorfindel
      yesterday






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      I see no point in answer above by connectyourcharger too :)

      – Pratik C Joshi
      yesterday






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      Neither do I ... The -1 is probably for suggesting to move away from jQuery.

      – Glorfindel
      yesterday







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      The -1 is probably for suggesting to move away from jQuery. >> :P oh yeah

      – Pratik C Joshi
      yesterday






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      @Glorfindel is correct. This isn't the place to make such suggestions, even if only as a joke.

      – Shadow Wizard
      yesterday






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      Downvoted because 1. there's nothing in the announcement to suggest anything funny going on with reputations (in fact, it explicitly states: " reputation won't change"); 2. the suggestion is terrible IMO. My downvote won't be displayed public because I lack the reputation on this Meta, though.

      – Marc.2377
      yesterday












    • @marc.2377 glad ! !

      – Pratik C Joshi
      yesterday






    • 7





      "...Angular or React to provide seamless interface instead of reloading the whole page while moving from one to other." I find sites that make heavy use of these technologies to be anything but seamless. They're some of the least performant, most unresponsive, and clunkiest sites. I don't mind if they dump jQuery, but replacing it with updated standard HTML/CSS/JS is a much better idea than adopting the heavyweight frameworks.

      – jpmc26
      17 hours ago







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      @PratikCJoshi I have the same idea as Glorfindel, I'm being nice to not down-vote

      – U9-Forward
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    • @U9-Forward thanks buddy!

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    It is my life at this point.






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      Just don't take too long. I don't know how long I'll be able to wait without commenting on, answering, or editing a post.



      It is my life at this point.






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        It is my life at this point.







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              We'll update this post once done or if delayed beyond April 18th.

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              We'll update this post once done or if delayed beyond April 18th.

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            So you mean to say there will be some time when jon skeet's(https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet) reputation will be same for sometime. :) It doesn't happen normally.



            P.S. I would like stackoverflow to move from age old jQuery to Angular or React to provide seamless interface instead of reloading the whole page while moving from one to other.



            Best luck for the launch!






            share|improve this answer


















            • 8





              That happens more often than you think, due to the rep cap ...

              – Glorfindel
              yesterday











            • @Glorfindel I don't think I deserve downvote though! :)

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday







            • 11





              I didn't downvote you, but I don't really see the point in answers like these. Meta Stack Exchange is a Q&A site, not a discussion forum.

              – Glorfindel
              yesterday






            • 2





              I see no point in answer above by connectyourcharger too :)

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday






            • 5





              Neither do I ... The -1 is probably for suggesting to move away from jQuery.

              – Glorfindel
              yesterday







            • 3





              The -1 is probably for suggesting to move away from jQuery. >> :P oh yeah

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday






            • 3





              @Glorfindel is correct. This isn't the place to make such suggestions, even if only as a joke.

              – Shadow Wizard
              yesterday






            • 2





              Downvoted because 1. there's nothing in the announcement to suggest anything funny going on with reputations (in fact, it explicitly states: " reputation won't change"); 2. the suggestion is terrible IMO. My downvote won't be displayed public because I lack the reputation on this Meta, though.

              – Marc.2377
              yesterday












            • @marc.2377 glad ! !

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday






            • 7





              "...Angular or React to provide seamless interface instead of reloading the whole page while moving from one to other." I find sites that make heavy use of these technologies to be anything but seamless. They're some of the least performant, most unresponsive, and clunkiest sites. I don't mind if they dump jQuery, but replacing it with updated standard HTML/CSS/JS is a much better idea than adopting the heavyweight frameworks.

              – jpmc26
              17 hours ago







            • 1





              @PratikCJoshi I have the same idea as Glorfindel, I'm being nice to not down-vote

              – U9-Forward
              14 hours ago











            • @U9-Forward thanks buddy!

              – Pratik C Joshi
              10 hours ago















            -10














            So you mean to say there will be some time when jon skeet's(https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet) reputation will be same for sometime. :) It doesn't happen normally.



            P.S. I would like stackoverflow to move from age old jQuery to Angular or React to provide seamless interface instead of reloading the whole page while moving from one to other.



            Best luck for the launch!






            share|improve this answer


















            • 8





              That happens more often than you think, due to the rep cap ...

              – Glorfindel
              yesterday











            • @Glorfindel I don't think I deserve downvote though! :)

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday







            • 11





              I didn't downvote you, but I don't really see the point in answers like these. Meta Stack Exchange is a Q&A site, not a discussion forum.

              – Glorfindel
              yesterday






            • 2





              I see no point in answer above by connectyourcharger too :)

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday






            • 5





              Neither do I ... The -1 is probably for suggesting to move away from jQuery.

              – Glorfindel
              yesterday







            • 3





              The -1 is probably for suggesting to move away from jQuery. >> :P oh yeah

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday






            • 3





              @Glorfindel is correct. This isn't the place to make such suggestions, even if only as a joke.

              – Shadow Wizard
              yesterday






            • 2





              Downvoted because 1. there's nothing in the announcement to suggest anything funny going on with reputations (in fact, it explicitly states: " reputation won't change"); 2. the suggestion is terrible IMO. My downvote won't be displayed public because I lack the reputation on this Meta, though.

              – Marc.2377
              yesterday












            • @marc.2377 glad ! !

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday






            • 7





              "...Angular or React to provide seamless interface instead of reloading the whole page while moving from one to other." I find sites that make heavy use of these technologies to be anything but seamless. They're some of the least performant, most unresponsive, and clunkiest sites. I don't mind if they dump jQuery, but replacing it with updated standard HTML/CSS/JS is a much better idea than adopting the heavyweight frameworks.

              – jpmc26
              17 hours ago







            • 1





              @PratikCJoshi I have the same idea as Glorfindel, I'm being nice to not down-vote

              – U9-Forward
              14 hours ago











            • @U9-Forward thanks buddy!

              – Pratik C Joshi
              10 hours ago













            -10












            -10








            -10







            So you mean to say there will be some time when jon skeet's(https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet) reputation will be same for sometime. :) It doesn't happen normally.



            P.S. I would like stackoverflow to move from age old jQuery to Angular or React to provide seamless interface instead of reloading the whole page while moving from one to other.



            Best luck for the launch!






            share|improve this answer













            So you mean to say there will be some time when jon skeet's(https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet) reputation will be same for sometime. :) It doesn't happen normally.



            P.S. I would like stackoverflow to move from age old jQuery to Angular or React to provide seamless interface instead of reloading the whole page while moving from one to other.



            Best luck for the launch!







            share|improve this answer












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            • 8





              That happens more often than you think, due to the rep cap ...

              – Glorfindel
              yesterday











            • @Glorfindel I don't think I deserve downvote though! :)

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday







            • 11





              I didn't downvote you, but I don't really see the point in answers like these. Meta Stack Exchange is a Q&A site, not a discussion forum.

              – Glorfindel
              yesterday






            • 2





              I see no point in answer above by connectyourcharger too :)

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday






            • 5





              Neither do I ... The -1 is probably for suggesting to move away from jQuery.

              – Glorfindel
              yesterday







            • 3





              The -1 is probably for suggesting to move away from jQuery. >> :P oh yeah

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday






            • 3





              @Glorfindel is correct. This isn't the place to make such suggestions, even if only as a joke.

              – Shadow Wizard
              yesterday






            • 2





              Downvoted because 1. there's nothing in the announcement to suggest anything funny going on with reputations (in fact, it explicitly states: " reputation won't change"); 2. the suggestion is terrible IMO. My downvote won't be displayed public because I lack the reputation on this Meta, though.

              – Marc.2377
              yesterday












            • @marc.2377 glad ! !

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday






            • 7





              "...Angular or React to provide seamless interface instead of reloading the whole page while moving from one to other." I find sites that make heavy use of these technologies to be anything but seamless. They're some of the least performant, most unresponsive, and clunkiest sites. I don't mind if they dump jQuery, but replacing it with updated standard HTML/CSS/JS is a much better idea than adopting the heavyweight frameworks.

              – jpmc26
              17 hours ago







            • 1





              @PratikCJoshi I have the same idea as Glorfindel, I'm being nice to not down-vote

              – U9-Forward
              14 hours ago











            • @U9-Forward thanks buddy!

              – Pratik C Joshi
              10 hours ago












            • 8





              That happens more often than you think, due to the rep cap ...

              – Glorfindel
              yesterday











            • @Glorfindel I don't think I deserve downvote though! :)

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday







            • 11





              I didn't downvote you, but I don't really see the point in answers like these. Meta Stack Exchange is a Q&A site, not a discussion forum.

              – Glorfindel
              yesterday






            • 2





              I see no point in answer above by connectyourcharger too :)

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday






            • 5





              Neither do I ... The -1 is probably for suggesting to move away from jQuery.

              – Glorfindel
              yesterday







            • 3





              The -1 is probably for suggesting to move away from jQuery. >> :P oh yeah

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday






            • 3





              @Glorfindel is correct. This isn't the place to make such suggestions, even if only as a joke.

              – Shadow Wizard
              yesterday






            • 2





              Downvoted because 1. there's nothing in the announcement to suggest anything funny going on with reputations (in fact, it explicitly states: " reputation won't change"); 2. the suggestion is terrible IMO. My downvote won't be displayed public because I lack the reputation on this Meta, though.

              – Marc.2377
              yesterday












            • @marc.2377 glad ! !

              – Pratik C Joshi
              yesterday






            • 7





              "...Angular or React to provide seamless interface instead of reloading the whole page while moving from one to other." I find sites that make heavy use of these technologies to be anything but seamless. They're some of the least performant, most unresponsive, and clunkiest sites. I don't mind if they dump jQuery, but replacing it with updated standard HTML/CSS/JS is a much better idea than adopting the heavyweight frameworks.

              – jpmc26
              17 hours ago







            • 1





              @PratikCJoshi I have the same idea as Glorfindel, I'm being nice to not down-vote

              – U9-Forward
              14 hours ago











            • @U9-Forward thanks buddy!

              – Pratik C Joshi
              10 hours ago







            8




            8





            That happens more often than you think, due to the rep cap ...

            – Glorfindel
            yesterday





            That happens more often than you think, due to the rep cap ...

            – Glorfindel
            yesterday













            @Glorfindel I don't think I deserve downvote though! :)

            – Pratik C Joshi
            yesterday






            @Glorfindel I don't think I deserve downvote though! :)

            – Pratik C Joshi
            yesterday





            11




            11





            I didn't downvote you, but I don't really see the point in answers like these. Meta Stack Exchange is a Q&A site, not a discussion forum.

            – Glorfindel
            yesterday





            I didn't downvote you, but I don't really see the point in answers like these. Meta Stack Exchange is a Q&A site, not a discussion forum.

            – Glorfindel
            yesterday




            2




            2





            I see no point in answer above by connectyourcharger too :)

            – Pratik C Joshi
            yesterday





            I see no point in answer above by connectyourcharger too :)

            – Pratik C Joshi
            yesterday




            5




            5





            Neither do I ... The -1 is probably for suggesting to move away from jQuery.

            – Glorfindel
            yesterday






            Neither do I ... The -1 is probably for suggesting to move away from jQuery.

            – Glorfindel
            yesterday





            3




            3





            The -1 is probably for suggesting to move away from jQuery. >> :P oh yeah

            – Pratik C Joshi
            yesterday





            The -1 is probably for suggesting to move away from jQuery. >> :P oh yeah

            – Pratik C Joshi
            yesterday




            3




            3





            @Glorfindel is correct. This isn't the place to make such suggestions, even if only as a joke.

            – Shadow Wizard
            yesterday





            @Glorfindel is correct. This isn't the place to make such suggestions, even if only as a joke.

            – Shadow Wizard
            yesterday




            2




            2





            Downvoted because 1. there's nothing in the announcement to suggest anything funny going on with reputations (in fact, it explicitly states: " reputation won't change"); 2. the suggestion is terrible IMO. My downvote won't be displayed public because I lack the reputation on this Meta, though.

            – Marc.2377
            yesterday






            Downvoted because 1. there's nothing in the announcement to suggest anything funny going on with reputations (in fact, it explicitly states: " reputation won't change"); 2. the suggestion is terrible IMO. My downvote won't be displayed public because I lack the reputation on this Meta, though.

            – Marc.2377
            yesterday














            @marc.2377 glad ! !

            – Pratik C Joshi
            yesterday





            @marc.2377 glad ! !

            – Pratik C Joshi
            yesterday




            7




            7





            "...Angular or React to provide seamless interface instead of reloading the whole page while moving from one to other." I find sites that make heavy use of these technologies to be anything but seamless. They're some of the least performant, most unresponsive, and clunkiest sites. I don't mind if they dump jQuery, but replacing it with updated standard HTML/CSS/JS is a much better idea than adopting the heavyweight frameworks.

            – jpmc26
            17 hours ago






            "...Angular or React to provide seamless interface instead of reloading the whole page while moving from one to other." I find sites that make heavy use of these technologies to be anything but seamless. They're some of the least performant, most unresponsive, and clunkiest sites. I don't mind if they dump jQuery, but replacing it with updated standard HTML/CSS/JS is a much better idea than adopting the heavyweight frameworks.

            – jpmc26
            17 hours ago





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            1





            @PratikCJoshi I have the same idea as Glorfindel, I'm being nice to not down-vote

            – U9-Forward
            14 hours ago





            @PratikCJoshi I have the same idea as Glorfindel, I'm being nice to not down-vote

            – U9-Forward
            14 hours ago













            @U9-Forward thanks buddy!

            – Pratik C Joshi
            10 hours ago





            @U9-Forward thanks buddy!

            – Pratik C Joshi
            10 hours ago



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