Not at all. I'd give a range for my company, rather than specifics, but no reason not to get an idea of...

I've been back for a month 🙂

I think the defaults change by versions, but certainly I would hope that yyyy-mm-dd would always be used. Be nice to get people used...

I agree with PHYData DBA. This should be a setting in Windows that SSMS picks up. I would guess that any rendering by a client, regardless of app, should also...

I saw IronPython a few years ago and it looked really interesting, especially with stats work. I haven't done much more than play with it, but I found Powershell to...

rodjkidd (8/27/2014)

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One of the PM's near me is having a meting at his desk. Explaining something to another person. They are almost replying with umhum with metronomic precision. It's gone...

Please feel free

Indeed

David.Poole (8/18/2014)

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K. Brian Kelley (8/15/2014)

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I don't want my kids to go into IT.

While some work places are great, I see the following too often:

- Long hours are expected of IT...

crussell-931424 (8/25/2014)

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What's the compelling reason to use a subset of data? If it is no big deal to copy a recent backup into a test area, why not just do...

We need a SQL Saturday in Boise! If you get...

Jeff Moden does a good job of showing performance comparisons

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/

The way you do this is to schedule full, then diffs, and then log backups. You take a full and restore it to the new instance. Once that is done,...

Jeff Moden (8/24/2014)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/24/2014)

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Please don't use all caps. It is equivalent to yelling. Also please don't cross post (removed the other one).

You don't want to do...

Side by side for me, but always make sure you take backups of all user databases, master, model, and msdb before you do either.

Added "functions" to the QotD, though I think you're being a bit pedantic, Tom.