Grant Fritchey (10/8/2015)

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While SQL Server can store XML, it's not great at it. You might want to consider looking at one of the ID/Value databases that's meant to cope with...

Jeff,

I'm very sorry to hear of your father's passing away. My father is still with me, for which I'm grateful. I can only imagine how hard that must have been.

Thank you, this sort of helps. But the link you provided didn't give an example of how to insert a blob data item into a column defined as binary(n).

Actually now...

Thank you very much, Steve.

I've never even heard of data masking. I had to look it up to find out what it is. Sounds useful; how is it used in SQL Server? What versions...

I knew that R is going to be in the new SQL 2016, but I didn't know that JSON was also going to be in it. Very interesting. Thanks for...

There were, but I think I've handled them all.

I hadn't thought of renaming the foreign key constraints. That's an interesting idea. However, even if I did rename the foreign key constraints they're definition would still be looking for...

Eric M Russell (9/18/2015)

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.. Staying or going isn’t about loyalty, it’s about what is best for you and you can measure that in any way you want – money, vacation,...

Excellent follow-up article, Andy.

Jeff Moden (9/16/2015)

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I've always thought this whole process was a bit, um... well... stupid. If you're not happy with your job, etc, yadda, yadda, then you should be talking...

Wayne West (9/15/2015)

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Rod at work (9/15/2015)

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Wayne West (9/14/2015)

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I'll be honest: I currently do not use a version of VCS. I did back in the Dos days using BRIEF, someone...

Wayne West (9/14/2015)

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I'll be honest: I currently do not use a version of VCS. I did back in the Dos days using BRIEF, someone came out with a source...

I'd like to know how people save the stored procs, views, triggers, etc. in a VCS? Whenever I've used SSMS there wasn't any integration I could see with anything like...

OK I've found out what a format file is, and have created it using the bcp utility. (Never done that before.)

Now what I don't know how to do is not...