I've been coding since 1976. I've been hearing about coders being replaced since...1976. 🙂

AI won't replace humans in the loop, just as voice dictation didn't replace the keyboard....

So...ideally what you want is a dependency tracking feature that allows changes to a (set of related) tables to be rolled back independently of changes in (unrelated) tables?

Intrinsic, pure and simple.

When I was 16 years old I walked into the computer room at my highschool for the very first time. Up to that point I had...

Well, the perfect solution is isolation of responsibility. Developers never touch production, DBAs never touch anything BUT production. Easy. 🙂

That assumes, of course, your company has sufficient financial...

So, by the question's own wording, the "correct" answer is actually wrong. The question says "new instance" the explanation says "same instance".

Badly constructed question!

For a long time DBA meant "person who did what the database should have been doing but was too stupid to do."

I mean, why isn't the query...

T/SQL is pretty useless for any kind of complex string manipulation, which is the lion's share of the T in my experience. So I like a hybrid approach, transforming disparate...

What about:

DECLARE @Date DATE  = COALESCE((SELECT [Some Date]
                                FROM   [Some Table]
                                WHERE  [Some Key] = 'Key Value'),'1900-01-01')

This lets you declare, set,...

We're small enough that we have no trouble using AD exclusively. One really nice feature of AD is hierarchal security, where assigning a single group to a user has the...

Now I'm really feeling sympathy toward any IT staff that are affected by this. Happily, my company keeps their business firmly inside U.S. borders so it doesn't affect me or...