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...

Version control is important.  Not using it is unprofessional.

GIT is everywhere.  It is a good version control system for people working on open source projects or where multiple companies...

Thanks for the article.  It was very informative and you demo'ed the tool that we actually use at work (sourcetree).

There are some things that I think are not clear...

I've seen this throughout my career. Agile doesn't work. Scrum isn't helping. Lean can't solve our issue, etc.

Rather than debate what went wrong, someone talks about the problem with the...

What's the datatype of the column? Is it a straight datetime/datetime2? Or something like datetimeoffset?

An instance (not server, that word gets really confusing quickly) can be used as a distributor for multiple published. However, each publisher needs a separate distributor database. I haven't tried...

Yes, higher numbers are better. FWIW, I'd avoid low/normal/high and choose some numbers. I would set a general rule of stuff that is easily killed, put at -5, assume most...