One point to make is - never celebrate a rollout prematurely. The pictures of the champagne swilling, back slapping techies might well grate on the unfortunate customers. Give it a...

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Maybe there's still time but I was looking forward to your thoughts on the TSB issues over here in the UK Steve.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/30/tsb-online-banking-internet-business-it

There's not much you can really do apart from ensuring you think and check what you're doing anytime you run any data modifying query. Check the tab, check the database...

For anyone who didn't know, Google have a self service data access point:

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@wingenious we try and manage with much less access essentially.

I guess to an extent that's planning what you're doing accordingly. Maybe (for our use case, yours...

I wouldn't advocate in-line SQL, but as funbi says, that's not the real alternative these days. We're using EF and this has many advantages. 

Essentially it's a simple engineering...

Thanks John, Steve and Robert. I have fiddled around now and have a basic understanding at least. Not for me right now, Profiler is going to be fine for me...

Has anyone got a decent, plain English explanation of what XE can do for you? My eyes glaze over somewhat reading the below:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb630354(v=sql.105).aspx

It sounds...

Nice comforting editorial today Steve, thanks. It's certainly how I've made whatever name I have, more as a developer than a DBA but it's the same principle. I've learned and...

My career is pretty good for me compared to the other options. I'm not sending it a sodding card though. £3.50 was more than enough outlay for my wife's :crazy:

Non fiction, Presuasion by Robert Cialdini. I'm fascinated by psychology and as technical staff we should try and develop skills beyond the technical. This shows you how to set a...

Knew this one OK. It's Microsoft, the highest percentage is not going to be 100 now is it? 🙂