You never lose points. Only miss out on gaining them.

SPs have tended to be low risk. There's a chance they fix a bug you've built a workaround to and that breaks, but usually they've either worked well or the...

One other thing you could try is a small table (or series of tables) that give the oldest valid date for a table. Then join to that.

In other words, if...

Yet Another DBA (4/1/2015)

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Hmmm, I think "DevOps" is one of those terms that has different meanings for people. To me its where Developers have access to the live environment...

You are welcome, and good list. The one thing I might add is to run through specific steps, or use a trace from the 2005 server and execute this against...

Smile

Not me, I wrote a legitimate script for today's knowledge share.

You do or Prompt does it for you?

BTW, we had a scrimmage last week. Went 1-2 with a walk, but tweaked the left elbow throwing. Switched to right handed play and may be there the season. Actually,...

Ray K (3/31/2015)

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So is anyone as excited as I am that baseball season starts in a week? :hehe::w00t::-)

EDIT: And to add to the fun, anyone have any bold predictions for...

GilaMonster (3/31/2015)

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Ok, the 5 times I've been to Paris...

Lynn Pettis (3/30/2015)

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First day back to work after 4 weeks off. Felt like a new employee. I didn't know where my cube was, my laptop would not connect...

Xavon (3/31/2015)

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Personally, I have never been a fan of online VCS. The human aspect of public vs private aside, it has always just seemed less secure to me.

But it's...

I really like Grant's idea here of Log Shipping to continue to test and keep your new system close to the old one.

I'd follow his steps

Greg Edwards-268690 (3/31/2015)

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GilaMonster (3/31/2015)

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Yet Another DBA (3/31/2015)

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Most of those I have worked with that do have a CS degree dont tend to understand databases to any depth, but instead want...