This might be a naïve question, but how can a ransomware victim be assured of receiving the key after making payment?

Got it. I guess I was harkening back to the days when Toshiba was the name in laptops. My first laptop was a Toshiba (early 1990s) and it had a...

Kind of sad to hear that Toshiba isn't the sterling laptop vendor they once were.

Thanks, Grant and Steve. I'm trying to get SQL Server source control implemented here and Red Gate looks like a solid choice.

I was able to convince the client to go...

Thanks for your feedback, Steve. (BTW, I've been following your work on SSC for a long time.)

I probably won't prevail in this disagreement with the client, but it's good to...

Re passing multi-select parameters:

My approach is to use a table-type UDF to put the multi-select parameters in a table variable, then typically do an inner join on that to constrain...

I like your prefix idea but would use different ones. How about rpt_ for reporting, da_ for data access, and dd_ or lst_ for dropdown?

Thank you all for your feedback!

I hadn't heard about shared datasets, will look into that.

I suspect that we'll use Text datasets for simple selects (e.g., dropdown lists), and SPs for...