I get some amazingly creative ones from HR services, though luckily none have hit the right one we use at Redgate. I also get a few great ones that purport...

I'd like to go back to the Fringe Festival next year, so maybe this will lower the crowds 😉

I have seen a few more reports of strange bugs lately with MS than  I'd expected. In this case, I might look at a CSS case with them. I'm not...

Thanks, https coudl be an issue. I'll to see if I Can get an API key and get this to work. Someone else was asking about this recently.

As a side...

In small companies, plenty of people have privileged accounts. In large companies, this often happens when various groups/departments set up their own servers. I've found more than a few engineers...

There's clearly a memory shortage somewhere. There are lots of memory clerks in the SQL OS, so I was thinking to reduce this to be sure the max memory is...

Disclosure: I work for Redgate Software

At Redgate, we have various automation tools to help deploy database changes automatically. Other vendors to as well. There are also ways with MIcrosoft using...

Thanks for the update, and I agree. Sounds like networking. Be interested in the solution if you find it.

Never used it in Britain, but I did use a EuroRail pass thirty years ago to travel around the continent. I wonder how many will stop going now altogether. I...

Not necessary, but I'd argue it's a good practice and habit to get into. It clearly sets out the transaction, which can be lost in code, and it allows you...

Smoke Tests - http://softwaretestingfundamentals.com/smoke-testing/

The idea is that you decide what things need to be working for your application to be stable. This might be

• The service is running
• Any...

And use try..catch

I did see this (https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/60d20f7a-8d64-48b1-ade9-8ba648e5945c/there-is-insufficient-system-memory-in-resource-pool-default-to-run-this-query). I might reduce my memory slightly and give the OS more and see if that helps./

I look at this in two ways. One is that you have scripts to run which are specific to a db (check something, verify something, etc.). In these cases, you...

This sentence doesn't quite make sense: Honestly, I do not know how they are trying to auto deploying like generating script in VS and running need to confirm

Doesn't your schema...