Looks like they fixed the posting problem this morning (fonts, icon menu bar) but they still have problems with email notifications.  I only get notifications for people that I follow.

We've...

WHY?  What problem are you trying to solve and why do you think Azure is going to help?

I have a scenario where: a company can have many workers(01,02) & worker can have multiple jobs (jb01, jb02) within the company, and in each job the worker can...

When you open SSMS, you may have to right click on the icon and select "Run as Administrator".

I looked back through this thread and found the following.

Looks like I could do this:

switchoffset (CONVERT(datetimeoffset, jobstarted), '+04:00')

But how can I get just date\time and automate the offset based...

No guarantees but I'll try to take a look tonight. I'll use your original post as an example. I still maintain that if you ship them with UTC's,...

I would recommend working with the receivers of the data to allow sending UTC directly instead of trying to perform the conversion for them.  If you send UTC they...

For 2012, yes, but that doesn't change step 1. You need a...

BTw... the easier thing to do would be to convert your local dates and times to UTC and let the users fix their stuff. 😉

If I was SQL 2016 then...

JobStarted AT TIME ZONE 'Eastern Standard Time' AT TIME ZONE 'Central European Standard Time' AS JobStarted_TimeZoneCET

That server will be moving to 2016 but need...

"does it REALLY need to be at the single row level of detail?" not necessarily

"they can tell you what aggregates they need to analyze and do that pre-aggregation for...

If you ran out of log file space on that NCI build, you're simply going to need more disk space for the log file.  I also suspect you may have...

I posted a link in my previous response as to what I think "the" elegant solution would be. ...

Stuff like this worries me.  Just obfuscating the day part of a birthday still allows someone to determine that rough age of a person and, if they have a couple...

here is an (simplified) example below

SELECT tab1.a      
tab1.b,             
tab2.c,...