I really thought this was going to be a trick question. I decided that the trick was that it was not a trick. We all tend to overthink these questions...

Well, nothing reading the text for both answers. The fact that both answers were used is probably interesting in...

Fun question to start the week. Fun working with negative numbers in functions; one always needs to think a bit out of the box.

I have to say, I rather liked that in the daily email, it was referred to as Service "Broken".

Which sometimes is what we have had to work on in my...

So of course as I progress through my emails today I have a second daily newsletter in a different format where the links work. Looks like the old format and...

"...there is a downside. Could you imagine artificial personas used in telephone scams or phishing situations? A help desk knowing some information and then asking for verification of other data?"

I'm glad that the horses are OK (well, and your family, too, of course). But when I read about what happened when the power went out, all I could think...

To be honest, I got tripped up by misunderstanding the info on the DBCC CHECKIDENT online page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/database-console-commands/dbcc-checkident-transact-sql?view=sql-server-2017. "SQL Server 2008 R2 and earlier" and my brain went on the...

I am so looking forward to the arguments about where the semicolon should go exactly.

Yay! Finally a question where I knew the answer before even seeing the list of options. I may get the hang of all this stuff yet.

Nice question, thank you. And for those who like to know what all the other parameters are for startup (It's what I used to answer this one):
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/configure-windows/database-engine-service-startup-options