"I've been thinking that with SQL Server 2019 we will start to access data where it lives, not move it to another place we want it. To me, this is...

Steve, after seeing the picture, it makes me wonder why you left there...

Oh, I see, you missed us all!

I think Steve's shirts are great.  On my first programming job we were still wearing white shirts and ties.  How times change.

Welcome back, Steve.  It's good that you had the time to get away from the day-to-day, but we missed you too.  Times like this do give you what the old...

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Good morning, Kendra

I wish you and Jeremiah the best in your move and new location.  Also glad you will still be contributing to these discussions.  Rick

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Maybe it's time for a new version of DVD-RW about the size of the old LP records, and a drive the size of a turntable.  You could get...

Maybe it's time for a new version of DVD-RW about the size of the old LP records, and a drive the size of a turntable.  You could get lots of...

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As I recently pointed out, even though mass storage is pretty inexpensive, there is also the consideration of time and effort spent with backups and validation and such that goes...

Alex, just a couple things from an old-timer for you to consider.

First, if you are serious about that number of rows, you need to fix that.  What are you doing,...

I think sometimes with these companies, they get a lot of income from paid support too so it may not be in their interests to make things easy to...

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I'm envious, Rick. You're environment sounds like one I'd like to work in. I understand my management's decision, made long before I came here, to adopt lots of vendors...

Rick (skeleton567), I like your answer. Probably the majority of our databases are related to vendor applications, so they control the database schema and we're not allowed to change...

In my last position we didn't need change control.

We weren't allowed to make any changes...

I've had the same experience with commercial software packages with their own designs.  I guess there are reasons that these db' s often are lacking good design, beyond just plain...

At one company where I worked the business was the design and manufacture of large scale equipment for indoor and outdoor facilities.  I was actually constrained by management from creating...