Thank you, @EdVassie, for your response. As a developer, you are right I have no idea of how to create test data for a test database, except for doing data...

I started to watch the video. Really enjoying it, however its longer than I realized, so I'm gonna have to put it on hold until later.

Thank you, Scott. That took care of the error message. I ran the script, it said it completed successfully. But the "Old_" tables are all still there.

Is this a permissions...

Very good points, Steve. It did come as a shock for me, though, as I was told the mentorship was the best way to help one start their careers. So,...

I've written about this before, so I'll be brief.

I maintain that you have to have the right kind of culture, in order to help mentoring. When I was started my...

Thank you, Grant. I really appreciate a reason being given! Some of these things don't apply to my or my organization (I work for a large state government department in...

Excellent questions and topic, Ryan. I'll answer your questions and add a topic of my own.

I've been in my current position longer than I thought I would be. One of...

Thank you, Steve. I'll pass those links along to my DBAs

That could be, Jeff, I don't know. I've never written a SSIS package and I have idea how to get started at it. Anyway, the vendor may have done that,...

Chris Wooding, I really hear you about your #1. WOW, is that a huge challenge!!

Good points, Ryan. And I'll say it's a bit of a stinging indictment. On Friday I was supposed to be working on some SQL scripts to manage some data in...

David, I'll answer your last question, first. The impact of my not rewriting the app are profound. One horrible habit that the developers and managers have done over many years,...

That is really awesome, Jeff! In fact, that's outstanding. In my environment we do unit testing and UAT, and that's about it. We don't have the success rate that you've...

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Steve, I've got a question for you about what you said, concerning what workloads might be better suited for a cloud environment. You said:

If you have a variable or growing...

Unit tests do not require production size databases, although load tests do and are important as well, once all the unit and integration tests are complete.

Code coverage is important,...