Hi Thomas,

I'm setting up a test-server for my first Tabular Model to demonstrate it to the analysts at our company.

The source DB is small (2.8GB, 4 virtualised processors and 4GB...

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I am looking forward to electric cars running essentially as individual packets across a network of roads, but I am not happy that a company like Google is doing it....

Hi,
 I did the 70-461 exam last year and I found it hard (not difficult per se, just a lot to remember). It took me the better part of a year...

Isn't this the purpose of pre-defined success/failure requirements? This project shall be deemed a success when these criteria are met and a failure when these requirements are met.

 To...

From what you described, she is the person from whom I would like to receive documentation. She knows how something is to work. She may even be a superb project...

I'm not entirely consistent on writing dates. I try to use YYYY-MM-DD whenever I can but I do accept that it is not what people outside East Asia expect.
 Whenever...

I did the 70-461 last year. Now that I'm looking at new MCPs to study for, I see that the 70-761 is very, very similar to the 70-461. I probably...

I understand the need for all Internet-facing machines, let alone DB-servers, to be up to date with their patches. This is perfectly sensible.
 I think I've asked this question before....

Most of my pet peeves have already been mentioned here and it was almost always caused by the developers not caring about the database when they were developing. Not every...

I don't really see the point of table variables.
How are they an improvement on temporary tables? Is the absence of CREATE TABLE (or INTO, if you that way inclined)...

Hi Jeff,
I will indeed read up on it.
Thanks for the very prompt reply,
Sean.

I'm preparing a pilot-study on Full-Text Search and this script will go part of the way towards it. The extended procedure master.dbo.xp_DirTree will be useful anyway.
The aim is to...