Feels like an order of magnitude too high (at least) to me. I'd say $10,000 a year for 1TB, or maybe 10TB, not 100GB.

There aren't good tools here. You can use Xe/trace/distributed reply to gather a workload and replay it, but I'd do that against a test instance before applying patches.

Really you should...

Testing has uncovered a few UI issues, and with people leaving for the holidays, we are delaying this upgrade until early Jan.

I can see an ambiguous pronoun in there (bad Steve). Corrected

djackson 22568 (12/8/2016)

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How about this?

Develop a project plan that includes either writing new code, modifying code or both. Come up with a few specific tasks that fit. Then...

RIP, Mr Camps from last year,

RIP, Mr Glenn, today

In Orlando this week for Live360. Leaving this afternoon, and it's 18F at home. Didn't bring a coat, and couldn't wear a long sleeve this morning since it's a 80F...

Mr. Kidd, what happened?

My thought is:

- security patches - apply ASAP after testing. There are too many automated bots and scripts out there looking for issues. Or on your network because someone clicked...

I would download SSMS and start there. That's a fairly easy way to go. Or just get SQL tools and use SQLCMD or bcp to get data. SSMS gets you...

You'll need to provide some DDL for a table and DML to help here. This is a little vague and likely due to some data issue with your query.

t.franz (12/2/2016)

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A drawback of having the Jobs in the database would be, that - when you restore the database as _test, _dev or whatever, those jobs would be started and...

Agreed. Why should a Royal hitting off a Giant determine home field for a Cubs/Indians series?

I would argue that

ALTER TABLE MyTable Add SalesID int

is code. It gets compiled and executed against a physical structure on disk.

Eric M Russell (11/30/2016)

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I totally don't understand why someone would publish sample programming code on the public web and then expect other folks not to use it or even expect...