David,

No idea if SSD MTBF is linked to age or batch. That's interesting. I have seen the same thing with HDDs in servers, and in fact, in large enterprises, we've...

Wow, no idea. Maybe drop and re-define the linked server?

djackson 22568 (9/29/2016)

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Interesting comment about how SSDs might not be susceptible to this.

SSDs have a limited number of writes. Hard drive life is measured differently, MTBF. I would...

Column names corrected. We never aim to trick you on a column name in the answer and a set of data. In this case, hand transposing results to the question...

BLOB_EATER (9/29/2016)

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so....I will be doing a presentation in front of 40 people soon, I was wondering if the vets here have any advice? Practice in front of a mirror? smile?...

I agree, though how do we keep up with changes? If the portal revs, or there are changes/additions to how you migrate data, connect, change firewalls, etc.?

Not an easy task.

Hmmm, DROP TABLE works for me.

Eric M Russell (9/28/2016)

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So we're talking about self tuning database servers?

Perhaps:

Indexes that are auto-created based on data access pattterns like statistics.

Deployments that will auto-rollback in the event of an...

Iwas Bornready (9/28/2016)

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It's mind boggling to imagine the software repairing and improving on the code all on its own. The next step is to write nothing, just state what you...

Rich Mechaber (9/28/2016)

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Steve, in your explanation, did you mean to say "This is offset by -1" instead of "by 1"? Or maybe by "offset" you meant the successive values...

TomThomson (9/27/2016)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/26/2016)

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Tom, I wish I were sloppy. My X5 had a bad actuator in the passenger side. My daughter was in the car, we had...

That I agree with.

Starting a new thread.

Eric M Russell (9/27/2016)

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DevOps works when it's intentional; like when IT staff have DevOps as part of their official job description, are separate from the development team and have their...

Iwas Bornready (9/27/2016)

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chrisn-585491 (9/27/2016)

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I like much of what I see from Microsoft, but most of the issues I have with Redmond, aren't technical issues or a reflection of engineering ability,...