Fun question to start the week. Fun working with negative numbers in functions; one always needs to think a bit out of the box.

I have to say, I rather liked that in the daily email, it was referred to as Service "Broken".

Which sometimes is what we have had to work on in my...

So of course as I progress through my emails today I have a second daily newsletter in a different format where the links work. Looks like the old format and...

"...there is a downside. Could you imagine artificial personas used in telephone scams or phishing situations? A help desk knowing some information and then asking for verification of other data?"

I'm glad that the horses are OK (well, and your family, too, of course). But when I read about what happened when the power went out, all I could think...

To be honest, I got tripped up by misunderstanding the info on the DBCC CHECKIDENT online page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/database-console-commands/dbcc-checkident-transact-sql?view=sql-server-2017. "SQL Server 2008 R2 and earlier" and my brain went on the...

I am so looking forward to the arguments about where the semicolon should go exactly.

Yay! Finally a question where I knew the answer before even seeing the list of options. I may get the hang of all this stuff yet.

Nice question, thank you. And for those who like to know what all the other parameters are for startup (It's what I used to answer this one):
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/configure-windows/database-engine-service-startup-options

Possible reasons for 24...
1. Steve is a Jeff Gordon fan.
2. Steve is a Chase Elliot fan.
3. His eyes were crossed when he wrote the question after first...