BLOB EATER (11/24/2016)

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GilaMonster (11/24/2016)

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The office kitchen also caters to stranger tastes, with 3 types of tea (two black tea variants and rooibos),...

...and a new kitchen? Although I suspect you might have left it a bit late to...

Hurrah! If you're seeking volunteers, I'm up for...

Grant Fritchey (11/18/2016)

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For the second time this year, I successfully got a Linux VM running with SQL Server on it. Last time I just did the install & walked away....

Luis Cazares (11/17/2016)

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Hugo Kornelis (11/17/2016)

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Eirikur Eiriksson (11/17/2016)

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Brandie Tarvin (11/17/2016)

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Beatrix Kiddo (11/17/2016)

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It's in the link there.

CREATE OR ALTER (Yes, we heard you !!!) – New CREATE OR ALTER support makes it...

"Can someone please reply to this topic" - give us a chance, we're all trying to hold down day jobs here... we're volunteers, not paid staff.

From the SQL Server...

Welcome to the party, indeed. 🙂

A couple of other suggestions.

There's a 6 month DBA training by email thing from Brent Ozar (one email a week, every week)....

Rather depends on the usage / query pattern for the server.

I would probably not put the OS & SQL binaries on SSD.

If TempDB is going to be heavily used, then...

GilaMonster (11/14/2016)

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Jeff Moden (11/13/2016)

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Ask Steve to give you the...

Do the six matching digits have to be together? ie must the string be of the form xxxxxxy / yxxxxxx or can it be xxyxxxx?

There's a handy blog post from Redgate on putting all that lot together - https://www.simple-talk.com/blogs/database-continuous-integration-with-sql-ci-and-jenkins

Sergiy (11/9/2016)

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Jeff Moden (11/6/2016)

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Luis Cazares (11/2/2016)

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I'm not looking for a job, but I take a look at offers from LinkedIn every now and then just to see what's being offered/requested.

That...

I tried setting this up locally, and had to use fixed IP addresses and records in the hosts file, which seemed a particularly unpleasant hack. See also Klaus Aschenbrenner's...

See also https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2001026 - a MS Fast-publish article about backup space.

See also TF 3042 - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188396.aspx which doesn't do the pre-allocation of space when creating a compressed backup. Might...

Welcome aboard. I must admit, I do use your posts as a tool...