I'm not aware of any way of doing this.

Strong suggestion, have a copy of your database in source control so that you can easily restore columns after you find out...

1. If you see sample questions from microsoft, they're fine. If you see sample questions from any other source, I'd check to see if that source is listed with Microsoft....

Looks like the connection string isn't complete. Here's a blog post that might help.

Well nuts. Missed that one too. I stink.

Thanks. This is a tough lesson to keep in mind. I forget it from time to time, even at Redgate.

I really should read these more closely. I may even get some right.

oops.

A thousand likes on this editorial, Grant! WOW, I've never heard of juice jacking or the rest of it. In this case, ignorance although it may be bliss, it...

Thanks for that posting - it was a good reminder that we have to be more cautious and less trusting when traveling. I'd like to thing everyone is as...

If you were posting it to the water cooler, I think it's fine. Posting it to the forums could very easily be interpreted as spam (not by me, but by...

Since you're not telling a declarative language exactly what you want it to do, you're counting on a behavior that you simply can't count on. I get it that it...

Oops. Sorry.

Still don't see an issue with this. If you don't specify exactly what you want, you get whatever the optimizer and the query engine gives you. I wouldn't call...

This isn't what I'd call a change in behavior. It's always been stated, for decades now, that you can't rely on the order of rows without an ORDER BY statement....

I would be looking for blocking chains first. That's the most likely scenario. A single query is blocking all the other queries which are waiting on it to complete. There...

Don't do #3. Down that path lies tons and tons of pain.

Yes, if you do #1 or #2 (and I lean heavily to the first option, the developers work locally...