Multiple tools means more systems to administer and more tools to patch which also means more man-hours to keep your environment up to date.

I much prefer to get all of...

Merge is generally a slow operation. I think if you are wanting fastest performance, your best bet is to grab all of the delta's that are going to be INSERTs...

You say that he doesn't have cases where he would have 3 or more values needed for calculating the average, but that is current state. What happens in 5 years?...

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Without seeing your data (or sample or DDL or DML), I'm just guessing here but I see this as a multiple problem thing.

First you want to know if you need...

My advice - sanitize the data before import. Use Excel to get the dates into one standard format (manual approach) if it isn't too time consuming. If it is too...

Just want to add that even with 1 big server, I still like to have a minimum of 2. That way you get failover. If the server/VM needs a reboot,...

Possibly a silly question Grant, but could you do that without the CTE? What I mean is something like:

SELECT (DATEPART(hh, sod.ModifiedDate) + 
DATEPART(mi, sod.ModifiedDate) + 
DATEPART(ss, sod.ModifiedDate)...

Are you able to reproduce this on a test system? If so, I would do so and review the execution plans after each execution.

One question for you though - how...

My first thought is "why?"... but if that is your odd requirement, and I am understanding your request correctly (INSERT all possible values in hh:mm:ss:ms format), the easiest way I...

I ru ln CHECKDB nightly on my systems. I want to find out about works early. But it really depends on your risk tolerance.

I just wanted to point out that IF this is installed on your primary use computer, I would strongly encourage you to configure the max memory to a lower value...

My opinion - registry changes for SQL Server configuration are only going to give you grief and break things long term.

Use the SQL configuration manager to check if TCP/IP is...

Since you MUST prefix with "NP:" that means you are using named pipes to connect. I've never done that before. I ALWAYS use TCP/IP to connect to my SQL instances...

I just wanted to add to ratbak's post recommending indexed views - these are less useful on SQL Standard. SQL Standard doesn't automatically use an index on a view, you...

Just to add to what Phil said, it is REALLY hard to guess what is wrong without knowing what the error is. BUT if I had to guess on the...