Perhaps you want to write one 🙂

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Only two flights for me, easily cancelled for credit. Two hotels cancelled, but one was prepaid and they don't seem to want to do anything. I was hoping to push...

Not from MS, but another MVP. A South African, and they said this:

"Set the default regional settings to GB for the box, and then set the collation for SQL Server...

Ignoring the politics, this is interesting: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/09/politics/coronavirus-airlines-white-house-tensions/index.html

US govt: we want this data

CEO: We don't have that

US govt: You're lying.

CEO: We can collect it with paper, or build an app...

I agree with Jeff, and that's what I've done. Usually removing stuff is a year+ duration. I rename them, have a date so that I can programmatically remove them, and...

You can check dumps here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-dynamic-management-views/sys-dm-server-memory-dumps-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15

If a dump isn't triggered for the hung/reboot, not sure you will see a SQL dump or there's value in producing one later. You're...

Articles here on tsqlt - https://www.sqlservercentral.com/categories/tsqlt

Microsoft has a unit testing framework, which can work with SQL Server: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/walkthrough-creating-and-running-a-sql-server-unit-test?view=sql-server-ver15

dbunit - http://dbunit.sourceforge.net/

JDE was a mess. I worked there and their philosophy (with 100s of developers on a product) was write crappy SQL once and have it run poorly on every platform....

Well, I'm cancelling my trip next week. Actually, it's already cancelled.

My wife and I decided that the risk of becoming carriers isn't worth it without a strong reason to go....

I'd expect more from people buying commercial applications.

Good points

I am loving these excellent comments.

I will point out that developers have a very short and predictable list of persistence requirements: load a grid, populate a form, save on...

When working with SP inside a .net project feels like Blackbox development. The Code you write looks like it assumes too much and needs a magic trust to what...

In today's cloud world vendor lock-in is an issue with most stored procedures being DB platform specific (MSSQL vs PLSQL vs MySQL).  Having to deploy an additional server just...

"...from a developer point of view..."  Why is it "more difficult" to build with stored procedures:

1. 1. It makes your entire project dependent on the DBA.  Not...