I agree. SQL is an amazingly complete platform, with lots of scalability. Cost is reasonable as well for all but those starting out, but the scaling in Azure SQL DB/DW...

FWIW, we use 

pre class="prettyprint lang-sql"

as the CSS tag for articles. That should work for SQL Code. We have lang=cs, lang-xml, lang-r, lang-vb, as well.

We don't have a guide, partially because we weren't sure what to do here.

We have our own CSS style guide, so depending on a site CSS probably causes...

I lost 3 people this week, two to pre-game injuries, Crazy

Please do automated testing. Have a test rig like tsqlt that can run a bunch of these against your query and ensure the edge cases are correct.

Are my privacy settings incorrect? Did I expose the WRs I started? I think Cousins and Wilson looked at my team and decided not to throw the ball to my...

Indeed. I hate to see people discourage its use. It's brittle and a pain, but it does provide some really nice benefits that you don't easily get with other tech.

I'm sure you'll be fine. Give it a go, post if things seem confusing. I think Hyper-V networking can be confusing, whereas VMWare just gets things working. I have VB...

C'mon, Lynn. You're a senior guy. dig into the logs. Should be something in /log/errorlog that helps you.

Replication is not going away, at least not in anything I've heard. Some may want it to, but there is work being done to improve it. I think little changed...

It's simple. If you have W10, I'd just install a .\SQL2017 instance and get it working.

You might also try the container route. You can keep SQL 2016 and...