A very good friend of mine, used to talk about something with a name like "Dev Pack", or "Business Pack", or something like that. Unfortunately, he passed away,...

Hi Grant,

Thanks for the response. That sounds like a good course. I've seen several articles about how useless REORG is. I'll definitely skip that. I know that Ola has added...

Sometimes the lines between my time and work time tend to blur (today's Blursday, right?). What I don't miss is a 90 mile round trip to the office. Granted I...

The DBA and development teams where I work have been off site for the entire time and everything that we got done before the pandemic still gets done. Hours may...

When I Google it, the very first link I get is: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/deprecated-database-engine-features-in-sql-server-version-15?view=sql-server-ver15

And it contains the code marked as correct in the question. What are you referring to?

We're too small a team to do something like this but I think for larger teams this is a very interesting idea. I am fortunate that in our small team...

I'll also add that 60 minute sessions just aren't long enough to do the job right for a lot of sessions.  If the 60 minutes on/15 minutes between thing...

The New England...

The New England...

The New England SQL user group...

Could SQL Saturday and Data Saturday run in parallel? Or could we keep SQL Saturday for the name recognition and start pushing a Data Saturday track in SQL Saturdays that...

While I am very attached to SQL Saturday, I see Randolph's point about Data Saturday. Perhaps Redgate can use the name recognition of SQL Saturday to boot up Data Saturday...

The default max column size in SSMS is 256...

Agreed. I hate abbreviating that when it's so much clearer to just spell it out.

There are still a lot of tools out there that demand SA login. Some even have checks to make sure they have such elevated privilege. Bowen if you run...