Back in the day I used both Query Analyzer and Enterprise Manager. I've been using SSMS for I guess 10 years now. I prefer SOS because of its ability to...

I agree with you, Steve, I don't believe we'll ever see semicolons required in T-SQL. I've seen hundreds of T-SQL statements written by people, which are still running fine in...

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your reply. What makes it so confusing to me is I get things like a SPN (I know of one) and told to use...

I gear my response to the question of what I do, based upon my assessment of the person, taking cues from the environment. For example, if I were at a...

Have a good time off, Steve.

Yep, I'm one of those who have a hard time taking time off. Part of it is that I don't get a lot of time off anyway, so I tend...

I'm enjoying these, people. Thanks for posting.

I wish we had WORM storage back where I used to work when I worked there. If memory serves, according to regulations, adult data had to be kept for 15...

I'm not  super "in the know", but can give you my point of view as someone who works with the DBAs. I know that we have several SQL 2008 R2...

Challenging article, Steve. For almost 2 decades I've worked with only relational databases, primarily SQL Server. I've heard of things like DocumentDB, CosmosDB, NoSQL, etc. But have never had a...