Take the poll: https://twitter.com/hbryant42/status/1152282090853011457

What is your answer? They're all crazy.

Craziest steroid era stat:

Bonds 1: hit HR 500 and 600 in consecutive years

Bonds 2: April 2003- Sept. 2005, never went...

Unix != Linux. Different kernel. Since there were lots of distributions, we had AIX, FreeBSD, etc. These are Unix, and often the *nix is for Unix of all flavors. Linux...

My guess, it connects with a default database of master, because the developer is a moron and beyond lazy.

If you can set the connection string, set a default db, or...

Altered the question to note the timeout. The question was phrased because if timeout is exceeded, the operation fails.

Altered the question to note the timeout. The question was phrased because if timeout is exceeded, the operation fails.

I've always viewed *nix systems as best suited for backend infrastructure support and to run services. Windows OS has always been a front end user desktop OS to run...

Honestly, we have a Stairway that will help you (https://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairways/stairway-to-database-containers), but really, you're learning a bit about...

I've seen this, but with trace/XE, you can usually tell what they're doing. In a few cases, they add a login, so they don't need dbo or sysadmin, but the...

This stairway is excellent. What would be an interesting extension to the series is the inclusion of SSIS and SSRS configuration for local machines.  It is an alternative way...

The early SSMS work with Linux was incomplete. I think most things ought to work with 17.5/18.x

In that case, I'd use what you expect. The differences are really minor, but go with RHEL. I have RHEL and Ubuntu vms with SQL Server, the real difference is...

They're roughly all the same. I find RHEL a bit more a pain since they ask for some registration stuff. I prefer Ubuntu for desktop level stuff.

From what I've seen, this feature doesn't exist. The comparison is to move data and sync it, but not report on it.

SQL Data Compare from Redgate has some export options,...

A few things that might help:

• https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/run-a-sql-server-agent-job-under-another-account
• https://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/credentials-and-proxies-getting-started
• https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/what-account-to-use-for-identity-when-creating-a-credential-and-to-use-as-the-job-owner
• https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/what-account-to-use-for-identity-when-creating-a-credential-and-to-use-as-the-job-owner

There are numerous ways to send make changes on another server from a different server. Linked servers, openrowset, etc.

However, if you are making changes in UAT, save those scripts. Someone...