What have you tried and what difficulties have you run into?

It would seem that all you need to do is add a column to the table (e.g., AreaPhone), then run...

It's hard to rule this out. We aren't seeing long running transactions but this is a high-transaction database.

We're going to try to see if we can do some load...

Thanks! I checked our version and it does look like that might, in fact, be the case.

I'll see about applying the hotfix and see if that fixes the issue.

If only it did use Google. 🙂

Honestly, if you've given your junior the necessary authorities to drop production databases, I think that you're the one who should be updating his resume.

Juniors are, by definition,...

I don't mean to complain, but it seems like we've been getting a fair amount of softball questions lately.

It's just not as fun to get the right answer when 90%...

I, for one, appreciate the graphical examples.