I don't know about calling it "mental health", but I think its important to recognize that work is a means to an end.  Work to make money to support your...

I wonder what percentage of people find conferences a means to really establish friendships with people, as you describe Steve.  I have been to a handful of SQL Saturdays and...

I have only a little experience with these matters, but I am very wary of solutions that involve taking well structured data in relational models and throwing them into files...

I'm also hybrid, Tuesday and Thursday in the office and the others at home.  Seems to work well, though I still feel annoyed if I have to go into the...

I'm extremely skeptical of any effort to regulate online ideas.  I think the last 3 years have showed us repeatedly that information can be used to assert control over groups...

I don't have to implement data change capture very often, but when I do I put in right in the Proc making the update, either with the OUTPUT clause or...

Thanks for the response Steve.

I guess the one question I have when people talk about scale up/scale down, are they more like at seasonal changes or intraday changes?  If 90%...

The company I'm working for now is preparing to make a major jump to the cloud.  I'm struggling with their reasons for the move, which seem very abstract and shallow. ...

My favorite place I have worked was a small online retailer which had roughly 80 total employees and an IT department of 4.  On my last day I set up...

I've been a DBA 10 years at 4 different companies now and they all have purchased the extended support (usually via SA), effectively giving the product a 10 year shelf...

lol, funny one @jeff Moden

I just switched jobs a couple months ago.  I went from one of the big fortune 500 companies to a smaller manufacturer.  The move was 100% about culture.  I really...

Ran my test in 2008 R2:

Are you sure that's right?  In the page the answer links to, I see this:

As others have pointed out, this documentation also contradicts your answer:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/in-memory-oltp/implementing-identity-in-a-memory-optimized-table?view=sql-server-2017

Thank you