chris 24158 (6/21/2016)

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I'm confused. It appears you now advocate not upgrading if the SQL version is less than eight years old -- SQL2008R2? Forgive me, but I didn't...

I'll say that I'm up and down. Life gets busy at times, so I have to balance out the time I put towards charity.

My thought is that we all need...

I'll add another note for what Gail and Y.B. said.

Don't do this.

Create a role, your own role, and use the script to GRANT to the role. Then add the user...

Markus (6/20/2016)

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I attended a Microsoft event about SQL 2016 and have read a lot of information about this new release. It does appear this is the best version yet....

Ivan Arjentinski (6/20/2016)

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The dev effort is usually not simply for embracing the new features. Most of the dev effort is to keep our apps running and supporting both newer and...

roger.plowman (6/20/2016)

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I would have thought the lack of a GO after the GRANT would have left permissions unchanged for the final SELECT. This is something I've run into with SQL...

Try fn_dblog

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/using-fn_dblog-fn_dump_dblog-and-restoring-with-stopbeforemark-to-an-lsn/

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/using-fn_dblog-fn_dump_dblog-and-restoring-with-stopbeforemark-to-an-lsn/

For both, you'll need to provide code. I'm not sure why #1 wouldn't return something without more detail.

For #2, are you sure this fires? I'd add logging code to your...

I agree with Scott. Don't worry about this.

Luis got it.

Essentially the online version of TFS. Has VCS, build, release, work tracking, etc. It's really slick, and I like it. It's the equivalent of TFS Server 2015 Update...

Well, my navigations through the world of VSTS are complete, or at least, working.

As much as I like the system, finding information and understanding exactly what's happening is hard. I...

chris 24158 (6/17/2016)

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The latest series of posts you enjoy so much from Microsoft says:

I can’t emphasize this patch enough. There is a MSVC, runtime library patch needed by...

Start here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairway/110890/

It's not really query and find the data, it's automatic partitioning, moving data to another instance of SQL Server. There's a difference, and it's a valuable tool to have.

I just...

Do you mean just have Firstname in the query without knowing it's below Recipient/Customer?

No. The path is the path. In the Nodes, you've set the top level for that...