I agree in many cases, but there are certainly issues where someone gets a breach from company X and then cracks weak passwords used elsewhere. Plenty of secondary attacks do...

Hey, you can find your own shirts then. I won't need to share if you get picked.

I'd be safe, and both backup master and script logins.

The collation  issue  is probably from some join that causes issues. The same thing can happen with joins in...

Use something like Thom's script. Don't work on a row. Work on a group at a time.

I tend to agree with Grant. Ultimately, if you need to change to a large value, I don't know if the CHAR->larger VARCHAR is worse than a VARCHAR->larger VARCHAR. In...

What Gail said.

These are separate constructs. Transactions ensure that code is all run together or none of it. If you have a single update, there's a transaction...

You could use a CTE

With myCTE
as
(Select ID, TransactionTime, Points From Members Where Points >= 20)
select *
from myCTE
 inner join someothertable a

Mappings can be set/saved by user. Perhaps the service account has a mapping you don't have.

My x5 has all-electric latches. I had one die and the passenger couldn't get out when we parked.

Less than pleasant, and this has to be a safety issue.