SQLRNNR (2/4/2014)

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I am curious how many people destroy the old backups that belong to no longer existent databases or that are well past the retention policy.

From looking at a few...

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No. People tend to use partitioning here,...

We're experimenting with this in place of the editorial once every couple weeks, just to see how it goes.

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Good lists, and I agree with most of them. I also agree with Jeff. If Microsoft bothered to "do it right" with many of these features, I suspect more and...

Andy Leonard (1/31/2014)

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Regarding the signal:noise ratio at Connect, I wonder if that will change now that Microsoft has abandoned stack-ranking? I hope so. It seemed obvious Connect became a metric...

Jeff,

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I think this can be tackled in a few ways.

1. Reasons why a unique identifier doens't make a good CI - 2-5 pages. could cover complexity of dealing with data...

Haven't seen this, though I usually use the Toolbelt. I install/update this on multiple VMs regularly (every month).

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Personally, I'd look to implement QA sooner in the process. If developers are looking to design differently, this can affect QA, so having them be aware is important. It can...

If you know how the API is broken, what about an article here? Write this up, don't mention the company, or use their API, but show how a similar API...

In line with Sean's issue. If a few of you want to write this up in a slightly more formal way to note that it's a bad idea to use...