Developer Edition is not the 180-day Evaluation Edition. I check the edition before treating a calculated date as an expiration.
SQL Server Audit: Tracking Who Read or Changed Sensitive Tables
Configure SQL Server Audit for reads and changes, inspect file records by user and time, and plan retention and target failures.
The Row Version Tag: Page Splits After Turning On RCSI
Turn on RCSI and every row you update gets a little bigger. On packed pages that means page splits, and I show the numbers on a small demo table.
How to Send Execution Plan in Email? – Interview Question of the Week #079
After answering over 2000 performance emails, I saw that many users do not know how to send execution plan in email. Here is the easy way to do it.
Getting Started With R Services and Forecasting
R Services and forecasting meet when a data scientist’s R script has to run next to the data. This guest post by Eduardo Castro shows how to enable external scripts, install packages and run a forecast with sp_execute_external_script.





