end of summer break

You also might read through this series: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairways/stairway-to-sqlclr

In asking a few people, they say that using 3rd parties doesn't involve any more issues than you might have with your own code. If you are 2017+, you might...

SSC Fantasy Football league has at least one opening : https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/ssc-fantasy-football-2019

Drop a note in the thread above if you want to play.

I'll post a note on THE THREAD to see if anyone wants in.

Dan, might want to set a deadline for anyone that hasn't responded.

New one for me

Asking a question of MS.

Potentially Edge edition (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database-edge/), though no idea when this is coming out.

If you are using Compact, I would think about Express, unless you have a good reason not to....

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I'm not sure what you mean by embedded here. Is it your deployment?

SQL Server licensing is the same, AFAIK, for any application. SQL Server licenses by CAL or processor, though...

Are you going to default the old rows of data to some value in the new columns?

DBCC MEMORYSTATUS will show you a number of clerks that are in use. Do you have columnstore or MOT tables? Those use memory outside the buffer pool.

Not quite sure what you're doing here. Perhaps you can explain a bit more about the problems you're having and what you want to achieve. Haven't used log4net, but I...

I struggle with this myself as well. When I'm in a hurry, tired, or busy, I tend to lean on experience. It's hard to know how often to try something...

Nice, glad you got to meet. I hope to go to Providence at some point.