So, before I comment on anything, remember, testing is your best friend in these situations. Anyone can have opinions on behavior. However, you should test those opinions and assumptions against...

First, tell your friend to simply be honest about their knowledge and experience. Next, some good news. To a large degree, SQL Server is SQL Server. Whether we're talking about...

It's a very good idea to have a second copy of your backups anyway. Not all of them every time, but, say, weekly or something. Just so, in the event...

HA!...

No company could have been prepared for this.  And, because of that, I fear that real thought will not be put into the decision about who to get rid...

Well, the big company meeting announcing what changes will be made was held this morning.  I will still have a job, but everyone making over 60k is getting...

Yes!

General Data Protection Regulation, California Citizens Privacy...

Sensitive data should absolutely not be in use in dev & test servers. So that shouldn't be a problem.

Pretty sure it was Jesus who said: You will always have the idiots with you. Or something like that. I'd just say that even with that... individual, better to be...

Nuts. I'm stuck. Have you compared the plans?

Since you can't do a backup & restore locally, you're doing a BACPAC I assume? Since that rebuilds the indexes, it also resets all statistics. I'd focus there as the...

You can't do that.

If you want to, you can:

SELECT @Result = a.SomeColumn
FROM dbo.ATable AS a
WHEREa.id=42;

Grant - just reading your wordpress blog - it strikes me that I'm missing some skills in monitoring SSRS and SSIS using XE... might be a nice topic

we all...

If you can, post both execution plans. By and large, Azure SQL Database just works exactly the same as regular SQL Server. So, all things being equal, a good index...

maybe rather than live webinars, you could do what Microsoft virtual academy did... stick a 10 minute video up on line and we have it on demand. brent ozar...