Are you looking at servers, VMs, or are you looking at Azure SQL Database? How big are the VMs you're looking at, memory, cpu, disk, etc? For such a small...

IF your login and the service account are different (and oh, I hope they are), then your login may not have the same access to the underlying OS as the...

Homework?

A company can have many workers. So, you already have two tables. Company has many workers. Probably the company is the parent, the worker is the child. So, the PK...

Up front, not an expert in your programming language, Macs or MySQL.

Sounds like you're building a cloud-based app. I'd say you need to have a cloud-based database. I'd look to...

Are you trying to get up to the moment recovery, or do you just want a copy of the database and transactions that may, or may not, be in flight...

So, the logs in log shipping can be used as point in time recovery. Therefore, secondary log backups seem redundant, and yeah, they could lead to a truncation in the...

I get it. Dealing with NULL is a pain. However, it's a unique value and has unique functions. Follow Phil's advice. Use IS NULL and IS NOT NULL instead of...

For introductory stuff, I always asked these questions. Obviously, a few would need to be updated, it being 2022 & all. However, I'd still say these were pretty basic,...

The easy way is to look in the SQL Server error log. It'll tell you. You can also see it in the Windows event log. Pretty sure you automatically get...

I would not recommend pursuing replication. It's very old technology that gets almost no love from Microsoft at all. You honestly sound like a perfect candidate for Availability Groups. Yes,...

Not a Data Factory person, but I do a lot of work in Azure.

Strong recommendation, look for videos or blogs. There are exceedingly few books written on Azure because the...

Just to clarify...

Well, AI, believe it or not, Microsoft Azure is where I'd go to look. There's some amazing stuff going on there.

I'm absolutely NOT an AI expert of any kind. However,...

You want to look at date functions like EOMONTH. Here are some samples that are pretty much what you're looking for.

I'd suggest taking a look at Redgate Data Compare. You can run it on a scheduled basis to capture changes to a given data set. You can compare it...