One of the things end users can do is baseline their applications.

I asked them to post data about the SQL Server type, and tweeted them to see if they would add the data for version (2008 R2, 2016, 2017)

Thanks for your review of your activities for the year. It really does highlight all the amazing effort and your significant contributions to this community!

Remember that chapter summaries of books make great blog posts 🙂

This is a nice project to read about. Thanks,

This is a signifigant issue where I work. Thanks for raising your concerns in an intelligent way.

I always do table counts. I compare the baseline count with subsequent table counts.

On big tables I'll do distinct counts per column.

External descriptions of what columns...

At one point our company did lunch and learns. I thought that was a helpful component of an overall training program.

Being a data scribe is a really cool job. I've enjoyed every chance I've had to dig into the technical and the business side of that problem.

Probably not coincidental:

Microsoft announced the purchase of GitHub in June for $7.5 billion in stock. At that time, Microsoft promised that GitHub would operate independently and...

Administator should be Adminstrator in:

One of the best additions to the SQL Server feature set was the Dedicated Administator Connection (DAC). Prior to this being a part of the platform,...