Thanks for that, Robert.

However much I read up about XML, I always gain from reading more, and I always find some gems in your writing on XML

From a...

I've just had a rummage around, but I haven't yet found my notes from the early nineties so I can't...

The idea of saying that one should never do shared database development is ridiculous, especially nowadays when you can have the best of both worlds and use database source control...

As well as helping others who have to maintain your work, documenting something is a great way of crystallizing and 'unit-testing' your own understanding of the process you are going...

I don't know the origin of this saying, but it comes from accountants. The third bad sign, according to the legend, is a car-park full of expensive lease cars....

So few PASS sessions on PowerShell? That is a great shame.

Jeff, if you think that PowerShell is equivelent to VBA/VBScript, then you haven't tried PowerShell hard enough. Sure, you...

It is a great phrase. I came across it in Eugene Ehrlich's 'A Dictionary of Latin Tags and Phrases', and thought. 'Hmm. Gotta use that one!'

@ianstirk

Normally, access to a production system is precluded on grounds of compliance regarding access to private data, rather than any possible consequences of running DMVs themselves. I'd agree that...

@bitbucket-25253.

I'd already referenced Kalen's article in the editorial. It was from her that I originally learned about the trick!

A variant of the code we've all been posting. This one looks neat but only runs on 2008, and according to my timings, runs at...

Thanks, Karthikeyan, for posting this. It's been an interesting discussion, and I learned quite a bit.

Yes, it was a technical problem and we all have sympathy for these because we experience them, and are sometimes responsible for them. Azure has, in general, performed very well...

Please feel free. I was just taking the spec from the original version. My point about using the sys.syslanguages...

The original code that was presented will work for any language setting. That's important. Scooping out the contents of sys.syslanguages will only work if you do it according to the...

Yes, it is there on my Test server along with instances with all the later releases. I use it every week. I found it a very exciting release at the...