We haven't done that since MS has moved the download links a few times. They're likely stable now, so I could add them. I'll see if I can find some...

Thanks for all the support

Probably, and we're both getting older

Congratulations Steve to you and the whole team! I've been reading the SQL Server Central articles/posts since 2001/2002 on a daily basis, helped me immensely over the years to...

It is. I was amazed to think about how much time has passed

Congratulations on the anniversary!  It is truly an amazing achievement!  Thank you for all the wonderful, pertinent, and helpful content over the years!  SSC has been a staple in...

Appreciate the sentiment

Thanks

I've been using SQLServerCentral almost from the beginning.

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One thing puzzles me.  SQLServerCentral is not behind a paywall; it is the de facto SQL Server knowledge site, has a huge...

Steve,

That was great to hear stories from the early days.  I'm not even a DB guy but I always appreciate your Voice of the DBA write-ups and I always...

I don't think there's a way to do this in t-sql. When you connect with SSMS, you're accessing the server and getting results streaming in text. I suppose some sort...

Thanks for that. I'll update the article as this should be in all of them

I think devs, or someone with previous experiences, make a lot of choices. They think a thing worked in the past, and it's a data store, so it should work...

Agreed. I wish MSSQL supported the COMMENT ON clause in SQL, but extended properties work, and will be needed for better AI responses (and really, for better human code)

I'm not 100% clear on what you want to do. Are you looking to put each partition in its own filegroup?

Filegroups are for managing the files on disk for backup/restore...