In other news, what do you do when 2 CLI languages for your OS's isn't enough: Introduce a third: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-windows-terminal/ I admit I haven't read too far into it,...

Yanks closing the gap, though not as quick as BOS.

Rockies seem to be trying to improve, but can't quite do it.

Storage should be easy. You have ideas of the current size and can guess at growth by looking at metrics for the dbs of database size. Allow for data growth/pad...

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It was new to me as well. Never set this.

Thanks, this is corrected.

There is no easy way to put down all the backlogged items here. It's too many to organize and track.

We haven't triaged and assigned dates to everything. That would eat...

Put these as two steps in the same job.

Nope, looks like a caching issue. I see things marked from previous days, but if I answer today's, it's still shown as unanswered.

Filing a bug.

Maybe not the best query, but here's a test. Query embedded in the --ACT section.

CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE tsqltests.[test calendarsales]
AS
BEGIN
    ---------------
   ...

This isn't a question on whether to upgrade. If you've made the...

We have a few articles on calendar tables as well: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/search/calendar+table

I noticed you mentioned this is the 15th week, but didn't include that in the output. Is that correct?

Yeah, that was a typo, but too late to catch it in the newsletter. 🙁

Does support become a consideration?

How can MS help? By prodding the lazy vendors to support newer versions. We are held back by vendors who in some cases are recommending 2008! And these aren't...

For me it all boils down to costs.  Any change in licensing comes under the category of "difficult conversation". The costs in terms of time and effort to upgrade...