My plans do not come to fruition until this upcoming week when I will be on vacation for a week. I can barely wait!

My mother is turning 60, so...

Create a batch file (.bat) that uses the SQLCMD command with the list all of the scripts required. The file contents would be similar to below.

SQLCMD -S "servername" -d...

Check out Visual Studio 2012/Visual Studio 2013, with SQL Server Data Tools. You can create a database project and reverse engineer a database and then execute whichever scripts you...

Thanks, Lowell. Your post reminded me that Visual Studio 2012 (and 2013, I assume) has a rules engine built into it, as well. I wonder if it checks...

Thanks for the feedback. You folks are three of the legends here on SQLServerCentral.com and in the SQL Server world, so hearing back from you in such a short...

They're actually called features! 😀

It may only get worse! I have heard of schools here in the US removing spelling from the teaching curriculum. They insist that they teach spelling through writing!

Yep...I know him well, Jeff. 🙂

That's cool. I worked in real estate before.

And as for my earlier comment, it was just clearly too early. 🙂

Is the dearth of responses an indication that we are all just working on mundane projects?! Or is it too early?!

I would like to get into seeing how SQL...

Another good resource is Simple Talk (www.simple-talk.com).

Another event is SQL in the City.

More on Big Data and Big Data Analytics.

Maybe some SharePoint development.

Very well written and thorough article!

In Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS)/SQL Server Development Tool (SSDT), when you open a report, there is a menu item called "Report" that displays in the IDE. Select the...

Perhaps do the calculations before the data gets to the report (in the stored procedure).

Hope that this helps...thanks.

- Chris