Microsoft, like many companies, create products and features that tick all the boxes, but fail to deliver the correct value.

I will be so happy to see these companies...

Hi Steve,

I already work there.

Recently, I joined a group called Acupera based in San Francisco, but working out of the Cary, NC office. Acupera works in Healthcare in a...

Let's be clear here.

Any query that takes 30 hours to finish isn't poorly written. It's just broken. Yes, you fix that stuff.

My normal metric for a query if...

No offense, but I think most of you are wearing rose colored glasses here.

Specifically, you have the following points backwards:

1) Failing to deliver a working product is guaranteed to fail...

You might want to consider adding support for:

1) sysname/nvarchar input

2) fully qualified names

Some good items that don't seem supported for testing:

1) item in another database

2) something with max synonym name...

In ETL processing, I commonly use windowing functions to remove duplicates as some others have said. By identifying the best record of the duplicates, I can get all the...

It is difficult to stand out in resume form.

I think the simplest way to think about it is that your resume isn't simply a checkmark task. It is a...