So, I proposed rewriting the client admission and billing pieces into a web app. The proposal was accepted and I led the rewrite. We delivered that some 6 months...

That's a win right there.

I agree. You shouldn't be updating these. The reason is that if you move the server/db to a new time zone, or clients move, they can always determine the actual...

Hopefully they learned something

I think so. I know it gets announced in a few places.

I don't believe you can change from UTC, which is expected. You should use the AT TIME ZONE to convert to local time.

What customization for the time did you have...

The survey gets announced: https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/02/05/the-2020-developer-survey-is-now-open/

A moment of silence, please.

I heard from his family and Mike Vessey, https://www.sqlservercentral.com/author/mvdba, passed away on 25 Jun 2020. I was pleased to meet Mike and host him on...

Sad indeed

Please set up a valid set of DDL for the tables (real and expected results) with some insert statements that allow someone to reproduce this.

Thanks for the write up, Jen. It was good to see some of the ratios, as I hadn't thought about those in terms of solubility.

Interesting thoughts from everyone and I appreciate the different points of view.

One thing I'd ask is that you think about other points of view, how have others organized themselves. For...

I would be concerned about Microsoft taking over an org, as they can be finicky in how they do so. I've worked with way too many "community" reps from them...

I can't speak to what they do for chapters. I asked at a few of the PASS Summit Board Q&As, but vague answers that had me still unsure of what.

Honestly,...

SQL Saturday would continue to run. Honestly, Andy and I might just donate the site costs, though I'm sure I could get enough from vendors to cover those costs. I'd...