All my experience is in this scenario (including downgrading code from 2014 to 2008.)

So I am interested in the effect of going 'cloud'-based. The upgrades are a well-advertised feature of...

Adding all language feature changes would be great (I recently had to port code from 2016 to 2008 and relied on error messages to identify some of the differences.) However,...

To throw a curved ball in here - knowing people who try and make a living from their music,  I will not use Spotify as it pays them spit all....

Real-time? This depends upon who is talking.

Having worked in this sector, e.g. where I have produced reports for people on demand, and in real-time microprocessor-driven system, I can say that...

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I like Sergiy 's response - nice and witty - but not necessarily true in my experience. I would definitely tend to the "responsible person" end of the spectrum but,...

Hi - this was removed by the editor as spam! So this is a repost.

In my contracts, I have to leave the client with something that they can maintain. This...

In my contracts, I have to leave the client with something that they can maintain. This generally means an SSIS job to import any CSVs. To try and be quick,...

Every organisation is made up of different, unique, individuals - each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Each with their own life experiences. I worked in IT for a supplier...

A bit of a minefield then - like posting jokey responses in a forum. I just meant that how would you find whether a method being used to list deprecated...

A bit hit-and-miss then. How do you check if it has been deprecated?

Good to know I do not use any of them

So, if you do not use any of the deprecated features, SELECT * FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters WHERE object_name = 'SQLServer:Deprecated Features'; will produce no rows?

I ran it and it produced no...

If you have a blank, it should be replaced with 'None' not 'Unknown' is what the post said.

NULL is not the same as blank data. A blank can mean that it is known that there is no data - so it is not unknown. It should be...

Hi - just looked at "DAX Logic and Blanks". The transfer from the BLOG to SQLServerCentral has changed the infinity to an eight.