just out of interest.... does anyone miss having a dvd drive in their laptop?

I'm travelling now, and I have a Netflix subscription, but no signal - I used to...

You'll actually get better overall performance if you define the clustered index on the empty table and then populate it with proper minimal logging techniques.  You'll save a wad of...

Well... it's partially there.  Lot's of posts I'd saved are missing from my briefcase so still not trusting it anymore.

Well, lookie there... I've not checked my briefcase since I first discovered that everything was missing.  It would appear that they fixed it somewhere along the lines.  I agree that...

I know it doesn't help but the new site killed everything that I had in my old brief case.  I've given up saving anything I want to keep.

Thanks for the great feedback and the very kind words, Phil.  Good to know this stuff from someone using it.  I've not had the opportunity to even dip my toe...

I only buy new hardware every 8 years or so.  When I do, I tend to go with something that's going to last quite a while.  This time, it wasn't...

Thanks, Phil.  I really appreciate your feedback on these types of things.

As a bit of a side bar, how do you like that new Azure ETL tool?  Does it have...

Plus to all the "TSQL Only" experts here:

Care to know out of your head how to do something like this(see attachment)? Because I don't and it's a quick way...

@Phil...

As you know, I'm not a great study of SSIS or Azure and so I have to ask... for something like this (consistent use of delimiters and text qualifiers), it's...

Now I don't feel so bad...

Have you checked to see if you actually do have an open transaction on the database?  And, yeah... I agree with Steve T in his suggestion.  I've not had to...

While you're at it, don't forget to store a date with the age so that you can estimate the actual age in the future.  You might want to  consider further...

Over the years as both a Database Developer and DBA, I've found SSIS to be a good tool.  As others have said, not necessarily the best tool, but...

London would be interesting. The SuperBowl is such an event and exepnsive. Likely not much more cost in London than LA for attendees.

Long as they don't change the time,...