Would really like to hear about people's experiences with moving databases to the cloud (IaaS or PaaS).  We currently have our SQL Server 2005 databases on an internal VM running Windows...

No St Patrick's Day question for 7 points? I'm disappointed...🙁

Good to know.  Thanks Steve.

"Sure, there are many more exciting activities in life,but if you can master the art of writing the whole range of documentation thatunderlies the development...

Truly a fun question.  Thanks Steve.

I thought process admin in the choices was a deliberate typo. It's shown as processadmin (no space) in the msdn article

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180016.aspx. So I picked sysadmin and...

I misread the answer "Only RLS, DDM, and Always Encrypted" as "Only RLS, DDM, and Always Encrypted are available on SQL Server 2016 SP1 + Standard Edition". Got it...

Learning something new is...

Thanks for the fun question Steve.

Here's my take on the meaning of "hiring to support growth": It's having a project already funded (not just an...

david.gugg (11/3/2016)

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Oh, I missed the part about this being SQL Server 2016. When I run this on our 2008 R2 instance, I get:

Msg 1018, Level 15, State 1, Line...

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Nice question on something new (for me, anyway). Thanks Steve.

My experience, at my current company at least, has been that the software QA team tests the software (firmware, really) that's used in the products we sell. Applications developed...