Adjusted the wording. The aim is to minimize parallelism for any query. Not to set the minimal parallelism, but minimize the number of cores being used, as this can be...

I can reword the question. I was getting to the point that while you can restore a SQL 2005 backup, you will not get compat level 90. This will get...

And it's a great skill to have when working with others

The whole 0 or 1 based thing seems incredibly annoying to me. Someone should have just stated everything is 0-based early on and demanded all languages stick to this.

I see an error: 

Typo fixed. Should have been 2016

Sorry to hear that, Rod. It does seem like lots of people wanted the world to bounce back to 2019 and have been working to ignore what happened over the...

I am amazed the OS comes into play so often, but I get it. This is an app on a host OS. The bigger issue, to me, is a lack...

If only MS coded every bit of guidance into the docs and warnings...

The big thing I was hoping to point out is you should test whatever you want to happen....

We saw some of this years ago with Hadoop. Neat tech, still in use underneath lots of modern stuff, but far too few people needed "big data" to make this...

I don't think too many people expect this to write queries, but rather do some suggesting and better guide people. It's easy to say these tools don't help, but they...

Grace Hopper, to hear how the process of developing COBOL came to be, Bryan Kernighan and Dennis Richie for their development of C and involvement with Unix, Ada Lovelace,...

I had heard of her, but didn't realize the extent of her accomplishments until...

No work done. This was escalated, but there is a  BBPress upgrade, that requires a WP upgrade, which depends on a PHP upgrade, which was held for...

Indeed. They've kicked...