I don't  know what permissions are needed, but the docs seem to indicate this works on your connection to SQL Server. I'm guessing the OE connection, but not sure.

The only way poor code in Azure makes you pay more is if you need to change your DTU level up to account for more workload. As Grant and

From what I understand, if you're changing the password, I believe this means you're exporting the cert again with a new password on the private key file. That's essentially a...

Eric has good points. This can be tough in an hour. I think even a star schema is tough in an hour, but perhaps you can just cover higher level...

A DACPAC should only have schema changes, so I wouldn't expect that much space. Did you check what the changes were that could have been applied? That might help you....

Moving the authorization to a new user works.

There are times you'll get this but if you look at your current query, it can be connected with the DAC, but you've gotten an error from the Object Explorer...

Good answer above. For querying and manipulation of updates, normalized tables are better. Trying to update a set of values in multiple XML documents is slow and problematic. Is this...

I'd certainly use a calendar table here to help set ranges. A tally table in a CTE will help build this. I'd then have to put in CASEs that would...

A few things. First, Adventureworks is built as a sample to show off features for Microsoft. It's not necessarily a great database design.

A PK is for uniqueness in...

I prefer the windowing function in general, but you ought to test both, watching the number of logical reads each incurs.

You can read about log escalation, but if you are updating lots of rows, SQL might decide it's quicker to get an exclusive table lock rather than thousands of individual...