And while you're doing your Career Planning, don't forget about Retirement Planning.  It may not mean much to you when you're in your 20's and 30's, but it'll mean...

Very well said Steve!  Without a little "comparing" it is sometimes hard to push yourself.  You are one of the people that I've looked up to and used as...

Congrats

I work for a British company. We've had developers in AUS work for us

Thanks, I thought so, but wanted to be sure newer people to the platform are aware of this.

Should not, as a proc is not in SQLCMD mode. What is happening here in a script is SSMS in interpreting this a certain way.

You can call a proc here,...

I think that's the key, we're the same team, and we have to support, help, and learn from each other.

OK, I played around with this. I think your quotes are the problem. This works for me:

:setvar DirectoryRootPath "C:\Users\Steve\OneDrive\Documents\SQL\StoredProcedureRunTrackerID.txt"

--:!!if exist C:\Users\Steve\OneDrive\Documents\SQL\StoredProcedureRunTrackerID.txt  del C:\Users\Steve\OneDrive\Documents\SQL\StoredProcedureRunTrackerID.txt
!!if exist $(DirectoryRootPath) del...

As to pay cuts, I took a pay cut to work for SQLServerCentral. At the time, Andy, Brian and I were thinking to sell or do something because the site...

I agree with Lynn. What I'd add is you want your resume to stand out a bit. I try to make mine focus on (top to bottom)

• What I want...

Nor am I done.

I've made the mistake of implementing a spec wrong. Simply put, I misinterpreted it. If there's some confusion on what a spec says, then I've asked for clarification, more...

dbo is historical as the database owner. This morphed to a db_owner role so you don't have to map logins to dbo.

The equivalent of dbo (database owner) at the login...

Hopefully you test the networking there, and have an idea of the way in which this might change your architectures. Many people get surprised by some of the cumbersome nature...

That's what I'd like to see implemented in SQL Server, and Windows/Linux, for that matter. Maybe with a group of 3-5 people, of which 2 have to approve something. We'd...