There are like 20 different scheduling tools in Azure. Pick one. Any one. Use that.

Learn how to do this through T-SQL. It's vastly superior, and ultimately, believe it or not, much easier.

It's going to be really hard for us to troubleshoot through screen shots....

That dude in the vest is seriously ugly.

I've spent the last 20 months doing online events. On one level, they're helping people who couldn't/wouldn't ever attend in-person events, which is...

Try to see if you can export the data, not back it up. Chances are you won't be able to, but try. And, if you get an error, read it...

Man, that's asking for trouble, but...

You just need to use sp_executesql. Query the table to get the string. Load that into a variable. Follow the link to see how...

Just Sp3. No need to do the others. They are cumulative.

Before you partition, you need to know, that if you get partition scans, performance will be worse than before you partitioned. So, when partitioning, we should only do it, if...

There is a HUGE difference between Managed Instance and Azure SQL Database. So, as everyone has pointed out, if you're in Azure SQL Database, the standard three-part multi-database queries will...

The Service Packs and the Cumulative Updates are, as the name says, Cumulative. They include all previous stuff. While there can be exceptions if you need a particular security patch...

There is actually quite a bit of overlap between those two books. However, the Fundamentals book goes much slower in explaining SQL concepts as well as T-SQL specifically. Where as...

To my knowledge, discipline is your only friend here. Keep the files in a defined place. Use naming standards that help you clarify what a thing is for, then clean...

There are functions like ISNUMERIC() and others that can determine if a given value is of that type. However, they're very dependent on exact formats. Most data imports...

It's probably just evidence of a given query exiting cache for whatever reason it exited cache. All the execution DMVs are cache dependent. Any given query that leaves cache, for...

Or, look at a tool like Redgate SQL Compare. That lived open, and in active use, all day, every day, on my machine until I was hired by the...

Yep, what @johan says.

Think internal and external to the database. External to the database, server and OS level stuff, no. It's not there to worry about. Internal to the database,...