half a pound of mashed potatoes???I would be asleep for a full day. I opt for salad. i.m a healthy 12.5 stone (I dropped to 9 stone at one point...

low carb diet? - I eat bread or fries once a week. It makes me sleepy.

I found that a lot of veg and chicken is a good way...

an interesting point... using that feature to mask missing identity rows for audit … is that not unethical? just asking for opinions

I've seen it both ways. You have to have good IO systems for striping, both on the source and target. Otherwise you can have issues. You have to test...

low carb diet? - I eat bread or fries once a week. It makes me sleepy.

I found that a lot of veg and chicken is a good way to go(grilled...

Afaik and imo there are no pros only cons.  There is no such thing as a "gap" in a primary key because 'unit consistency' is not a necessary...

you have a few things you need to baseline before you drop the indexes

individual queries (times and query plans)

overall CPU

Overall disk (in and out)

then you can measure the before and...

Grant - just reading your wordpress blog - it strikes me that I'm missing some skills in monitoring SSRS and SSIS using XE... might be a nice topic

we...

LOL, I'm fairly clean when I cook, washing pots and dishes while I can. I like to have things relatively clean and neat when I'm done.

Now my FIL,...

Currently we have 13 people in the IT department andwe have 3 working from home, and 1 of those is a permantent home worker, so we only really have...

Not sure if you like cooking, but it's...

Shifting gears a bit, today's editorial on Routine has a broken discussion link.  The editorial is all about the changes people are having to make because of recent world...

kinda of the same opinion.. it's really an unnecessary feature in 99% of environments

missing a few identity values is no big deal... and to be fair, deletes will cause those...

Grant - just reading your wordpress blog - it strikes me that I'm missing some skills in monitoring SSRS and SSIS using XE... might be a nice topic

we all take...

the only thing I can bring to the party here is that you are open for SQL injection attacks

if you have to use dynamic SQL in that way, is there...