Thanks.

I do prefer the simplicity of simply disallowing divide by zero, instead of treating it as NULL. The usual argument from looking at division as the inverse of multiplication is...

Thanks, great question!

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Eric M Russell (8/29/2016)

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You'll need to create this database on another instance for which you are the only SYSADMIN. Also, you'll need to enable transparent database encryption (TDE) on this...

Great question when combined with the discussion here. Aside from the recommendations about how to improve the question itself, I learned a lot from this example overall.

Thanks!

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More days than not I still feel like a junior DBA. There is so...

Along those lines, I think it was a joke that one of the other choices - ...

Thanks for this script. It's very useful.

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Great question, thanks.

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Thanks - great question.

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Thanks, great question. The behavior is not at all what I expected, but it is good to know.

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Thanks, Steve! Great question.

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Sean Lange (7/7/2016)

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webrunner (7/7/2016)

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Like many others who have posted comments, I also first thought all 4 would be required for a strong SQL password. And it does stand to reason...

+1 🙂

Like many others who have posted comments, I also first thought all 4 would be required for a strong SQL password. And it does stand to reason that empirically the...

a.m 46061 (7/7/2016)

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Killing connections like that reminds me of my Sybase days!

How about a one liner?

ALTER DATABASE [dbname] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

That will drop all user connections apart from...