This article shows me two techniques I don't know much about. I've got some questions about this, to help me learn more about it.

Whether you use state-based approach of...

Personally I think the article is a bit biased against the state-based approach. Since it assumes you would be applying changes to production blindly as opposed to comparing the...

This is the main reason why people go with migrations. However, lots of customers don't go into the...

Finally a win. Surprised even me

Location data isn't preventing tracking, as they track the towers you use. If you have location off, you reduce their accuracy as GPS data isn't available, but you are still...

As Scott mentioned, only shrink files, one at a time. This often seems to work quicker to me as well, when a database shrink seems to take forever.

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.