Yes, DDL modification events are definately one of the alerts you want sent to your phone.

Organizations actually don't need to spend thousands of dollars to train their IT staff. Those of us in IT, by virtue of our nature, are perfectly capable of going out...

Often times "tricky" techniques are not the best solution. What I mean is that windowing functions are very useful, practicaly essential, for BI type reporting or ad-hoc discovery type SQL...

Some of these newer T-SQL features (like SEQUENCE and IIF function) are not an evolutionary improvement over what we've had in SQL Server for the past 15 years but rather...

Working 10 or 12 hour shifts (in exchange for a shorter work week) is OK when I'm on a sprint. A sprint is when everyone involved has clear understanding of...

However I decided this year that I should buckle down and get this done. I'm proud to say that I spent about an hour working on the task and got...

SreeSql (11/19/2014)

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From SSMS, under your database, have you checked schema changes history report? It will show DDL changes occured on your database objects pulling from default trace. Hope you can...

You can use the following to check the table's 'Created_datetime', which will confirm if the job or some other process is dropping and re-creating the table.

sp_help 'MyTable';

Also, is...

Unless they are sitting...

First watch this (funny).

CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs

http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-cos,19753/

But then read this (seriously).

US secretly created 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest and undermine government

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/us-cuban-twitter-zunzuneo-stir-unrest

patrickmcginnis59 10839 (11/18/2014)

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Ed Wagner (11/18/2014)

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Eric M Russell (11/18/2014)

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I wonder how many ordinary people superficially maintain a FaceBook page, not for dumping their actual daily life, but just for use as...

Ed Wagner (11/18/2014)

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Eric M Russell (11/18/2014)

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I wonder how many ordinary people superficially maintain a FaceBook page, not for dumping their actual daily life, but just for use as a presentable...

I wonder how many ordinary people superficially maintain a FaceBook page, not for dumping their actual daily life, but just for use as a presentable shill for prospective employers. Is...

It's hard enough for employers to find competent candidates for the right price. Add on top of that some directive from HR to screen candidates based on their healthy habits...

Perhaps a lighter question, would you be comfortable managing and writing applications that work with employee data and try to analyze, perhaps even strongly recommend, changes in peoples' live? I'm...