I think IT folks in general have never really took...

... However the front page of your blog, with the last 5-10 posts you've written on some random topics might not be the image you want to present. Perhaps you...

Yeah, nothing like hearing the jet engines suddenly...

Jeff Moden (8/18/2015)

---

Iwas Bornready (8/18/2015)

---

Though I have used a tally table a few times, it really is rare for me. I've heard so many people say how great they are...

Ed Wagner (8/12/2015)

---

I also suffer from the "forgotten" requirement and "just one more thing" at the last minute that's never been heard of before, but it's what they wanted all...

Jeff Moden (8/18/2015)

---

Alan.B (8/17/2015)

---

Jeff Moden (8/14/2015)

---

Alan.B (8/14/2015)

---

BobAtDBS (8/14/2015)

---

I have read Jeff's article, both in the past and an hour ago. His examples aren't things we do at the TSQL...

I hope that mission critical software for things like airplanes and nuclear reactors don't run on Windows or Linux. I'd expect something like an embedded chip that contains both the...

Stuart Davies (8/17/2015)

---

I have two:

Live

and my laptop.

This can often make my life "interesting" as the Live servers are running SQL 7 , 2000, 2005, 2008 R2 and 2012.

Don't...

tfeuz (8/14/2015)

---

I will Check that index!

when I refer to the server being slow here are some examples

- sms takes a good 3-5 minutes to open before it even...

... I will also point out that simply just navigating around their server is extremely sluggish - whether we are in SQL or not. We are highly suspicious that there...

g.britton (8/14/2015)

---

I just wish it wasn't called a "Tally" table. I don't tally things, I count them. fwiw I usually call my "tally" table "N" to reflect it's relation...

Jeff Moden (8/14/2015)

---

I'll strongly second that wish. I also wish that there were a way to...

Copying database1 to server2 and finding that the runtime drops to normal range was useful in that you've confirmed it's probably an issue with the server. However, to properly diagnost,...

Daily build and prototyping (local)

Team development

QA

UAT

Production

Disaster Recovery (ostensively)

Grant Fritchey (8/13/2015)

---

They should be. They don't have to be. I'd sure put them up there. You'll pay for those VMs, but those costs should, by and large, be less...