Thanks, both. I am so looking forward to some normalcy. I don't go to shops often, and not usually in crowds. Out with the family last night and it's still...

If you put this in a file called test.bat

notepad

Now run "test" from the command line. Then run "start test".

There's a difference here that forks a process.

As Brian mentioned, a seed helps here, which often is good since you may have a way to pass in a seed from a value in a row. However, RAND()...

Thanks for joining, and hope you had fun.

I thought my matchup would be closer, but surprisingly things went well.

Best of Luck this weekend to everyone!

I like it. A few other things I think are needed:

1. Jobs need to be contained in dbs, with agent picking them up when the db is attached/restored, or the...

Glad you've found the community to be exciting. I agree. Hats off to everyone for their efforts and support.

Not quite sure we're spoiled, but they take care of us.

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The IPs are not restricted. What issue are you getting? I just had someone connect from SQLCMd and I've been able to connect from SSMS and ADS. Are you using...

This should be live now. Perhaps, Sheldon, you want to test with a new post? And maybe write me an article to compare 😉

Philosophical choice. I haven't done this, but the table change could be tracked in multiple ways. So could the file, if oyu have it in a VCS and deployed from...

What Eddie said, but what are you trying to accomplish?

Hopefully you get the chance for the first two in 2021

ICYMI: Google moving office work to Sept, and then 3 days a week: https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/14/22175150/google-return-office-september-flexible-work-week-coronavirus-pandemic-sundar-pichai

At Redgate, we've said you can work through all of 2021 at home, though we will...