Gary Varga (3/16/2016)

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There is no harm in part automation i.e. automating part of a task. Over time this may lead to a fully automated task. Or it might not. Either...

Wayne West (3/16/2016)

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Automation is a good thing. As pointed out, it reduces error as long as the inputs remain consistent to the design.

Here's the thing: any code that we...

+1. I've done this.

I will send suggestions to...

This is kind of a really open ended question. I think if you have specifics, like JSON <-> SQL Server, it's easier.

The API from third parties dictate what you need...

WayneS (3/15/2016)

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jasona.work (3/15/2016)

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Is this the end?

Will Jeff Moden be able to stop work on his string splitter??

Will Batman be able to get rid of the bomb before it blows up?!?!

Tune...

Recce70 (3/15/2016)

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As much as I look forwards to SQL Server being on Linix, I expect in 2017 forums covering aspects of the LAMP stack will be clogged up with posts...

JustMarie (3/15/2016)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/15/2016)

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I'm sad today

One bit of advice. Work with your body shop to make sure that the repairs come under the amount where your insurance...

Yeah, actually a girl hit a trailer that slide over and tapped the car. Wouldn't be nearly as bad, but it clipped a coolant line, so no driving 🙁

I'm sad today

replica? Do you mean as part of an availability group? Or a secondary for mirroring?

You typically can't go from higher to lower version in anything except replication.

If you find too hard to administer 5 servers of 6 databases each v 30 databases on one server, you'd not the DBA for me. There isn't much overhead to...

I'm guessing you have a typo above, because you have 10. and 100. listed.

If you get this sometimes, could the cluster be failing to the other node? Clusters do no...

ZZartin (3/15/2016)

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Interesting, so is this a move to try to take market share from MySQL? MS is already beating Oracle in the licensing department so it doesn't seem like...

jasona.work (3/15/2016)

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Apparently my old boss still subscribes to the M$ evil empire, embrace / extend / extinguish view of MS, as he was of the opinion that MS would be...