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...

Yes, if one of the fixed roles don't fit the use case exactly, then creating a database role with only the specific granular permissions that each "database...

There are several fixed server and database roles that grant persmission to a user to perform various admin type operations without being a member of full SYSADMIN. For example: securityadmin,...

Gary Varga (11/16/2014)

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Could we be looking at this from the wrong way round? Should our languages and components not put security first? Should it be a little harder to make...