@eric So why no ODBC for DocumentDB so far?

That announcement startled everyone in fact, it turned out that this announcement was only about the deprecation of Microsoft...

MUMPS? Good grief, that is an amazing survival. I wrestled that fiendish system in the eighties. It is true, though. If you curl up your nose at something you have...

You can also export text files very easily from SQL Server using an ODBC text database. Hmm. Perhaps I should write an article about that, but I show you...

Yes, that seems to be a problem in the formatting. (sigh). I'll get Webmaster to change it.

@Jon

That's an interesting thought. Thanks for that. I must confess that I've never come across this happening. Would anything go wrong if that table that had a clustered index that...

@Jon

It is quite possible! Can you please tell me which script? I'll check it.

@ÏWas,

Oh, yes, it happens to all of us. Triggers just don't show up in SSMS. It is also scary to look at the dependencies. Well, it scares me.

I think that Microsoft has had to make fundamental changes. They are doing the open PowerShell primarily because their major corporate clients want them to. We all sniggered when...

@Bryant

Now fixed. Thanks for letting me know.

Some great ideas here, Laerte. Keep the series coming.

I agree about the ease of un-masking the mask by some simple SQL Queries. Aaron Bertrand demoed this at SQLBits, and I blogged, with some help from Gianluca Sartori, on...

Yeah. Whenever I am in a position where I can control how meetings are conducted the rules are ...