A tough story, submitted as an anonymous post:

My comments: Anonymous, a tough spot to be in and one that challenges you professionally and morally. Honestly, I'd be making plans for...

The Stairway Series aren't meant for you to necessarily work through them all. They aren't designed as a course for all of SQL Server.

They are designed to get you up...

Blame me, sure.

It's probably my fault. I should build a few tips for using the forums and publish them.

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Having an article that explains how this works, more than BOL reference, is the request. If you want to do this at a database level as well, please feel free.

That's a good question, and I'm not sure.

This came out of a question someone asked since they were importing XML documents into a field and said they were validating the...

Jim Youmans-439383 (3/20/2014)

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I use to want to know how my data was secured and make sure it was not being put at risk. Use to being the key phase...

Wait, you're cursing me?

That's a great quote. Now if there were only a way to make developers avoid doing this....

Sean Lange (3/18/2014)

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1 hour and 15 minutes until vacation. I am ready!!! We are taking the kids on a surprise trip to Branson for a few days. See you all...

I do, and I'd love to see a few variations of how to do this in separate articles, but if you have something that's focused on getting the queries that...

At first glance it looks good. I'll get you feedback in the article, but closing this topic.

If you restore a backup a week later, and the time of the backup was before the truncate committed, the table is there. Doesn't matter if the truncate was started...

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jcrawf02 (3/18/2014)

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Steve, I think you've just done this too much. Once you understand what you're trying to do, Conceptual and Logical blend quite a bit, because you start conceptualizing in...