Do companies have a lack of talent?  Or do they have a lack of training, a lack of motivational ability to encourage personal growth, and a lack of belief...

I agree. This is what happens at a lot of places I've worked. Someone gets blamed, occasionally terminated, and...

Does this help?

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/data-driven-subscriptions

I think the Netflix piece, and what I was hoping to convey, is that the decisions about how to implement something, or change something, should come from a mix of...

If it's taking you 15s to load, that's a problem. I haven't seen that lately, and when I load today, it's quick. Usually it's slow for me, as I have...

If it's taking you 15s to load, that's a problem. I haven't seen that lately, and when I load today, it's quick. Usually it's slow for me, as I have...

Thanks, appreciate the response. I'll close the bug for now.

Thanks, appreciate the response. I'll close the bug for now.

Good catch. I misread the help. I've updated the answers and explanation.

I do think large columns should be out of row, as Jeff noted.

However, I also do like vertical partitions of tables, especially when developers struggle to avoid SELECT *.

My main...

I'd focus on what you know. Ultimately the cost difference with Azure SQL, Maria as a PaaS service, PostgreSQL, etc. will be small compared to you understanding the system and...

Double check your configuration settings for the network. You could have something else open and available. Ideally, we do not expose SQL Servers on the Internet in any way, only...

You cannot do this directly. There isn't a capability for T-SQL to do something like "select x from @mytable".

If you want something like:

declare @Product2Count int
exec @Product2Count =...

Thanks, I've updated the question.

Bump. Looking for a positive test result to close this.