My old bank was like that. I moved my account for a few reasons, but this was one.

No idea. SKUs are not released.

+1. Call MS, and let us know what they say. That is disturbing. I suspect a broken page somewhere with corruption, but it would be good to know what they...

I'm with Eric, why worry about 100s of GB for a laptop?

I run plenty of SQL virtual machines with 2-4GB to test things. They work fine.

SSDs are a must....

AFAIK, you cannot do this. I'm not sure why you would. Per Core means any devices can connect. You pay a higher price for this.

Under Server + CAL, you pay...

Have you run a DBCC?

Theoretically, this could happen, but I've never seen any values different from a restore. The one thing I'd note is that the value could have changed...

One thing: There is never a way to prevent encryption from being cracked. Period.

The iPhone thing is slightly overblown, as the FBI could theoretically copy all the flash RAM and...

The defaults with a US SQL Server are what I used. I'm not going to list out client settings, collations, etc. If your settings are different, then you'll need to...

Let's keep this pleasant here. You have asked about overhead and advantages of partitioning. In each of the posts, Gail has provided an answer, and also warned about not expecting...

David.Poole (2/23/2016)

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My 6 year old niece managed to download some ransomware onto her mother's tablet in an app aimed at children. That's just vile.

Going after hospital records is beyond...

Write your tests so they can be run manually or automated.

It's a similar effort. You'll run manual tests many times anyway.

Today is late. My fault. I scheduled everything in the newsletter and assumed I'd done the newsletter as well.

Sending

jasona.work (2/24/2016)

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So a question to everyone: Would you prefer if someone posts a quick "reported as spam" reply to the spam topics after they report them, or nothing? ...

Interesting thread. Just found it, and decided to add a few thoughts.

I don't think there's fundamentally anything wrong with usp_, but I'm not sure it's helpful. These days we have...

As an example, here's DDL with data.

CREATE TABLE dbo.MyTable ( mystring VARCHAR(200) );

GO

INSERT dbo.MyTable

( mystring )

VALUES

( 'This is a 7'...