I thought this was pretty easy. Hard to make plausible wrong answers here, at least, it was for me.

I didn't,...

In addition to what Jeff noted, if you get to move this to different hardware or change the makeup of the LUN, having a different drive letter provides some abstraction.

Good points. Submitted a PR to add SELECT to DML.

Anyone can do this: http://voiceofthedba.com/2018/01/03/creating-a-books-online-pull-request/

Hopefully the reports and averages show that!

I try hard not to...

Maybe, but...

We haven't supported tables directly. I was surprised myself, and it's on a backlog, but I think it's relatively unimportant. Most of the time, having DDL/DML is better for us...

You don't have time zone info, so you can convert this based on EST, knowing that some of your data will be incorrect.  During parts of the year, EST is...

Can I run this code? Sure, there are security implications, but this can work. Would I do this? No, because you've not littered a three part naming in code. The...

I don' t mean to imply SQL 2017 isn't a good product (or 2014 for that matter), but for most people, this isn't a compelling change to move off 2016....

I understand how and why this works, but I do think this is inconsistent with other languages. Quick tests when I wrote this in Python and PowerShell show the answer...

I'd argue people are the most important part, with process second. The tools/platform/automation/tech bits is the easiest part by far.

Unfortunately, too many people stop with tools/etc. and don't work on...

You can't download git to a work laptop? I wouldn't remotely understand that as a technical person. This is highly stable, free, well tested software that millions, likely hundreds of...

You can, but why? I'd put the distributor on each publisher. Simpler and works well.

For moving this into a central warehouse, you can use some sort of structure to ensure...