Vendor Installs

I was recently asked by one of my virtual colleagues if I could review a document they were putting together for an installation of a product that was running an MS SQL back end. After they asked I responded by asking “when do you need this?” They said a week. I said “that’s fine” and … Read more

NOCOUNT and User Options

Recently we had a vendor suggest to us that we turn off the option for NOCOUNT on their database. Upon hearing this my first question was, naturally, why? What was the issue such that they would say they wanted this turned off for their database(s)? Those questions were immediately followed by, naturally, how? How do … Read more