'69 Mustang Mach One in high school.  Wrecked it.  Would love to have that car today!

Two Corvette's.  The world is a different place when you're driving a Corvette.

Favorite car...

Over 61 years of driving I've done all of the car, truck, motorcycle things, (even a new 1966 Triumph Spitfire and a new 1984 Honda Goldwing) but have enjoyed...

I still really, really miss my Audi RS6: fast, spacious, and a total sleeper. Audi finally started bringing them to the US again, but this time in...

I've not driven near as many cars as you, and certainly nothing as exciting as a 911, but right now I'm reasonably happy with the car I've been driving...

Jeff, you want CI to be fast, because you want to get feedback quickly. This runs constantly, so it needs to be fast.

This IS NOT THE ONLY TESTING done with...

That was precisely my thought.  A fellow DBA in another company recently went through a bout with a ransom-ware.  The ransom-ware was able to track down where the normal...

I'll have to look. It's more a...

Can the three winners email me and give me the place they'd like an Amazon GC sent? Whichever email you'd like me to use.

I'm not sure what you mean by pull. Do you mean copy the backup file? SQL backups from from the instance and are written to files. If you are looking...

There is fn_listextendedproperty - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-functions/sys-fn-listextendedproperty-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15

Good luck with that. Not sure third party tools make this better, but you're welcome to eval SQL Backup from Redgate if it might help

If you don't have sensitive data in production, that does make things easier, but as data sets grow, there is a lack of agility in dev environments if you are...

You can't store binary data in an int column. If you hacked the db, you'd  have 4 bytes, but whatever you put in there would be interpreted as a number.

AE...

The underlying storage is binary. If you don't have the certificate on your machine, the result set will contain binary data inside of the that result set for those encrypted...

That's just the internal implementation of AE. The idea here is to not have to change your app, which might be expecting an int. I believe the metadata knows this...