When I ask our DBA about upgrading he just asks why. He says it is too expensive unless there is a compelling reason. We are on 2008 R2 and he...

Nice script, thanks. We have a lot of night jobs that once in a while go awry.

Sounds great. I'll pass this on to our DB Admin.

Thanks. Good training on COALESCE which I rarely use.

Not sure I get the joke. Dumb me I guess.

We used to use tricks to store true/false values for variables in each position. But this was when storage was a premium. We haven't done that in years. Still, nice...

For someone like me who knows nothing about this, the article is incredible. Thank you so much.

Thanks for the question. It was tricky for me.

Thanks for the info, good to know.

Though there is truth in what you say, there is also truth in that "good enough" has to exist or the company you are working for goes out of business...

What a fascinating script. Thanks.

Not sure I will ever use it in my every day work. Interesting nevertheless and I'm sure someone will make use of it. Thanks for the exercise.

Thanks for this.

Thanks for that next installment.

Thanks for the sql.