Apologies, corrected the reference.

• Stairway to T-SQL - https://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairways/stairway-to-t-sql-dml
• Stairway to T-SQL: Beyond the Basics - https://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairways/stairway-to-t-sql-beyond-the-basics
• Stairway to Advanced T-SQL - https://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairways/stairway-to-advanced-t-sql

Does this help? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33998229/vba-mac-connect-to-sql-server-with-actualtech-odbc-driver

Are there always 3 (or less) rows for an employee? Or are there random non-sales/non-office items?

You're really trying to pivot here. You might look at Pivot, though this isn't necessarily...

Out of credits?

Maybe you should write a few questions, Thomas 😉

Thanks for the update

Named instances almost always use dynamic ports. The browser is designed to handle this.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/configuration-manager/tcp-ip-properties-ip-addresses-tab?view=sql-server-ver15

Features change, sometimes improve, sometimes cause issues with your code. As Jeff mentioned, you need to test well before changing anything.

However, I haven't seen any reports on reduced reliability from...

Yeah, I need to watch that one. I'm behind, mostly because life gets in the way, and I've been wanting to get my kid to watch a couple with me...

The question asks how to get the "3". DENSE will give this.

No. you can look at some of our other articles and then submit online (upper right, Write for Us).

Think essay

• tell me what you will cover
• tell me the details

...

I love the "or so". Does that mean 99.99% or 90% or maybe 50%. I mean, so isn't exactly a precise measurement

I think the most days at home, some days in the office is a good plan. We may do that at Redgate when things open in the UK, which is...

I worry that you have some underlying storage issue with the files themselves being corrupt. Can you point your log backups, or maybe for one db that has issues, to...