When you're taking a walk at work, and realize you should wait a minute before crossing the road...

Beyond just a copy of Developer Edition, you'll also want to get a trial version of Windows Server (works for 180 days,) and some sort of virtualization solution.  Options on...

I'm with Phil.  Better to store the dates as dates.  If you store them as character data (whether CHAR or VARCHAR) it's too easy for "bad" data to slip in,...

Ugh.
The joy of spending a day waiting for someone to get in touch with someone on their end who can hopefully resolve a connectivity issue to a remote (linked)...

I was curious about how this would actually work, were they using the equivalent of a desktop water-cooling rig (heatsink on CPUs with water flowing through to a radiator) or...

The run_duration column isn't actually a "time" datatype, it's an INT.  So there's some weird query gymnastics you have to go through to get it from something like 243834 to...

Without knowing what updates were applied, we can only speculate.

I will say that where I work our anti-virus / anti-malware is exceptionally aggressive and has "broken" my SQL...

I think the first question most will ask is, what have you tried so far to accomplish this?
Take a look at using a GROUP BY query.

I find it almost amusing that every time MS does something related to Open Source, you get comments from people who feel MS hasn't moved past the "embrace, extend, extinguish"...