OK, but don't over commit.

If I don't hear from you in 3-4 weeks, I'll bump this for someone else.

Excellent. And thanks

Yes. We usually recommend dedicated databases so schema changes from one developer don't break another's work, but it does fine with shared databases. The objects changed by other developers will...

I need a coat today.

The back porch:

Yeah, most of the tools are integrated with the developers' actions. However, this is what VS requires. They make commits manually in VS. If they don't, or they don't add...

Are you trying to get the CREATE statement checked into TFS every night? I'm not sure why you do this. Really you only check in changes, so you'd just be...

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...

Hmmm, you're subscribed. I'll ask if someone can check.

Do you mean Database Weekly?

It is Bob Lang.

Feel free. I've set a reminder to check these every 3 weeks, so I'll bump this if I don't hear from you.

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.

Glad you liked it.

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...