Life before SQL Server was as a software engineer (which I still do to a small extent). I'd probably go back to that but I'd also be very tempted to...

We are using Ecrion to produce reports. The report designer is similar to the usual Office tools but it can be a steep learning curve for more complex documents. There...

I really like Redgate SQL Prompt. With some of the horrendous T-SQL code I inherit, it makes my life a lot easier. Sometimes I just reformat a section of code...

I've only had to restore twice at my current job. Once when a developer dropped a table. That was reference data and restored from the previous nights backup. The other...

When I ordered a new laptop at work, I asked for a 4k screen. My reasoning was the higher pixel density would make for a sharper image for my aging...

Forgive me if this has been mentioned before and I missed it but along with all the other great points made here, fixing / modifying data related functionality is much...

Verified online at python.org. Answer was -21.

According to the Microsoft docs you can pass binary or a constant that is implicitly convertible to binary making Steve's answer correct ( but not popular 🙂 )

Our lab runs 6 days a week and everything needs to be available from very early morning until late in the evening. We usually do SQL Server patching on Sundays....