I agree with the others; you need to hire a proper consultancy to help you design all that.

That's really interesting, because I also thought it might not go down too well in the UK, but I can definitely see it working well in the States. However, I...

This is something I've just spent a month or so deciding for myself, so I will try to help. (FYI I'm based in London though. The market looks good in...

I enjoyed reading this article. I've worked at one place where we made a really good first attempt at a proper DevOps setup, and (after some initial resistance from the...

Absolutely what I took it to mean as well, thanks.

AO group = AlwaysOn Availability Group.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/13/2015)

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Apologies, my grammar miscue. I had thought the "only" in the other two answers would lean towards the reading being only the answers given and...

Excitement!

That's what I thought- and yes, there is an argument for it being a bit redundant if Basic Availability Groups prove to be any good, but so far they look...

Koen Verbeeck (8/13/2015)

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OK, I didn't select the option with the in-memory table, because the sentence ends with only.

This made me believe the answer suggested that you could only create columnstore...

This suggests that it's an issue with the DNS suffix (search on the page for "designate").

Have you tried this?

Link

I like a bit of team-building, but it does depend on the activity. Recently I did go-karting, which was fun, although there's not a lot of team-building to be done...

I just Googled "SQL Express Profiler", and got loads of results saying that it doesn't come with SQL Express. What were your search terms :-D?

I agree; do try to avoid having one shared ID for everybody. Use an AD group if you can.