Agreed though this is why you choose/ hire/pick craftsman that do good work.

Same for trades people/ handy people for building projects. They might take shortcuts and not be amazing but...

What I find with JSON documents is that the good ones appear to be based on a disciplined object model.  The bad ones look like stream of consciousness artefacts...

I thought it was a collation thing. That usually explains differences across systems like this.

There must be something in the underlying representation that causes this. Interesting issue. It's likely something...

Yeah, might be a bug, but I think we confirm this.

If it doesn't work, email the webmaster@

I sure hope so

I didn't call those out, but I'll edit the post to note the file needs to be in the same folder. I wrote later about using a specific file name.

And...

Thanks, I'm hoping you're right, Aaron and cheaper tooling will get more people modeling. I like the Redgate tool, though it needs a few things for me. However, that and...

Personally, when I design something new, then yes, I produce a logical model.  When I inherit something, I'll look at the physical model and do the best I can.

What...

As a developer, I used Visio for years back when it still included database modeling. Why? Because it was part of the Microsoft suite we were already using—Word, Excel,...

Hey Steve,

I've been trying a lot of these tools again lately, and DBeaver produces the diagrams that I like most. (And the community edition is free)

It was easy to...

Sorry to hear that Neil and best of luck. It is a scary time to be job hunting

Is this any different than someone searching on Google and picking a random answer...

Glad you liked it. Trying to work through some of the language changes in short, focused articles.

Agreed, we get more data, but lots of it suspect. Maybe AI will help clean some up, or at least get us closer to an MDM world, but design is...

Yeah, FYI, if you had ssms 22 preview, I couldn't upgrade it from the VS installed. Had to go to aka.ms/ssms to get the new installer. Uninstalled old, installing new...