Good developers make mistakes on simple things.  This is one of those areas that we should have a system handle itself because the permutations of regional differences is crazy.

Execution plans the same? Row counts in dbs that same? I'd make sure this is the case first.

I assume you mean that creating the logins with a new password isn't OK?

First, that's horrible security. If you can't change a password, you are asking to be...

I believe UCP is being abandoned as essentially no one used it. I think you will need SSMS 16.x or earlier, which should still be on your machine. Might keep...

We are looking at updating the PoSh Stairway for this reason. PoSh has changed a lot. Likely we'll go with WS2008+ and W8+ as the PoSh installation.

Your requirements are very ambiguous.
"a value from a column for a date and another value from another column for another date"

This is vague and a reason why...

Apparently I can't count.

It's certainly the year of  1 step forward, 1 back for me. I guess I'll finish around 7-6

I wonder if this will grow. Like most of you, I think this is limited to a few narrow niche areas, but I also could see this as more than...

Also, thanks for the update. Hope it keeps working for you.

That's interesting. I guess if you're a user in the db context and set single user with rollback, the other users are disconnected and then you have the only connection....

FORMAT() is slower than CAST/CONVERT, but has some advantages in handling different regions and more flexibility. I like it, but I'd use it judiciously.

Wow, 7th place for me, but 4 of us are 4-3.