"I think we all have to think about the skills we should have to make sure that if the market shrinks we’re the ones who keep our jobs"

I'm not so...

I'm ready to be corrected, but I'm pretty sure it's only non-MSSQL servers.

This is because you can't directly query MYSQL (or other SQL flavours) with MSSQL server syntax - e.g....

Beware!

SELECT TOP 10 * FROM MYSQL...test_table

Will pull all rows from test_table across the network to the MSSQL server, then return the top 10. If that sounds like a bad...