IoT enabled clothing when many families are going into debt just paying for their kid's school clothes? :ermm:
Devices that notify your insurance provider when you walk into that...

Perhaps you can find a corporation to sponsor you. With the US and EU going through a political identify crisis, it's very possible that Canada will become the new western...

OK, the following will:
- create a sample table similar to what you're working with
- insert the table with rows totaling 5975
- select TOP X rows...

You can easily select rows in random order like so. However, I'm not clear about the part of $4000 though.

SELECT * FROM MyTable ORDER BY NEWID();

I wouldn't know what to do with a $,$$$ training budget, even if I had it. Microsoft publishes books for the self study of certification exams. They include a DVD...

Maybe I'm missing something.
First, why would the PM wander into the server room?
What were these two saying or doing before the PM walked in?

What you've just described sounds like a classic example of an Accumulating Snapshot fact table as described by Kimball. This would be a fact table modeling a multi-step process having...

I'm not sure if this would apply to your specific scenario, but the application can switch out the database name in the connection string.