/sigh. I may be a bit pragmatic/cynical but this article is far, far too much influenced by marketing nonsense...

Insurance and Claims Adjusters - this industry has been dominated...

On a related note to this - is there a way to restrict features in, for example the developer edition, so they match those of one of the other editions?

I hadn't spotted the introduction of the STRING_AGG function. That would save a lot of rather horrible and convoluted queries that do the same - with the likely further advantage...

The version that supports the SQL:92 DOMAIN functionality? The MS-SQL specific TYPE functionality is not the same particularly as it does not support all the functionality of DOMAINs - therefore...

There are definitely occasions where stored procedures really don't cut it because the logic involved in the query is much better handled in an environment that can deal with the...

Forgot to add... one of the main reasons for using MS-SQL server logins is when the MS-SQL server itself is separated from the application using a highly controlled firewall. If...

The more serious issue is that the virtual machine host environment is impacted, pretty much regardless of the OS that the guest (hosted) virtual machine is running. When a virtual...

Yes, but then one looks at it...

If your SQL server is physically hosted then doing a test conversion to a virtual machine has quite limited practical test value. It will test that your application still works...