Also, Azure SQL Database is backed up for you. Further, there is no capability for you to do a traditional backup. Instead, you can create what's called a bacpac, an...

I guess you need to ask yourself, how likely is it that you're going to go back to Week 17 of Year 6 in your 10 years of weekly backups?...

You can do exactly that for the databases. However, there will be the downtime of copying them over to the new server prior to attaching them.

However, the system stuff, logins,...

Same...

Hey all!

Back from sabbatical. Happy to see we're still talking deadlocks. Ha!

I was just troubleshooting a similar issue to find the difference was the default database assigned to the user accounts.  After getting query execution plans for both logins (which...

Yes. You will be hard pressed to find join in any EF tutorials; other than just the places...

PREACH BROTHER!

Writing the final chapter of the book, and the first section...

Our C# developers (who know just enough SQL to be dangerous) write code using Entity Framework and I have trust that Microsoft will generate good SQL. So far so...

@Grant ,

Awesome... I don't know...

@Grant ,

Awesome... I don't know how...

Thanks for all the feedback everyone. Appreciated.

Me, I love tuning queries.

Yes Jeff, working on the new book. Chapter 20 right now, Graph data.

Have fun with the baseball. Most fun I've had is going to the games with Allen White. I like watching him watch the game. Far more fun than the game...

Thanks Rick, but I'm not actually going to Gettysburg this trip. Sorry for the confusion. This time it's Pea Ridge and Vicksburg.

Uh oh. All the shame.

Thanks Steve.

Appreciate it Luther. I plan to hit the Virginia battlefields someday.

Tom, not sure, but I had a blast tromping around the Gettysburg battlefield with the...