People who act like they know everything already when you offer a suggestion, then proceed to mess it up and ask for your help to solve it.

People who, after you...

SQL Server is a good product.  However as with most other Microsoft products, Microsoft is generating revenue from making versions "unsupported" which then forces people to upgrade otherwise they fail...

It depends on the request, the way it is made, who makes it and the time constraints.
In general I am not a first line support person, so requests for...

As with most arguments like this there isn't a one size fits all.

I work on a system which uses Entity Framework and was jointly developed with another company....

I agree that we are more like scientists than engineers. There is a certain element of experimentation within controlled limits.

You produce a solution that you have tested (hopefully!!), but...

I would certainly welcome a platform-independent way of obtaining a lasting certification that only required renewal say every 5 years.

I went to the trouble of getting one Microsoft cert and...

Just to add I had this problem on a test server where the log disk had been replaced with a larger disk. Manually restarting SQL Server resolved the issue.

What do you do with numeric or date columns? Format them how I want them in SQL and treat them as text

Ever tried to do all your fancy formatting in...

Thanks for the replies. I had a feeling it would not be possible. Having done a fair bit of Crystal, I know it wouldn't be possible there and SSRS...

It is heartening to see a groundswell of opinion against this nonsense and know I'm not alone.

One problem I found with EF is that when you have a many to...

I couldn't agree more. I am currently working on a .net/SQL Server app which uses Entity Framework/Linq (not my idea) for 98% of the data access. The SQL...

Firing you because they found out you went to an interview sounds borderline illegal to me, but I'll guess you have checked into that. (I live in the UK -...

We still have a lot of DTS, although we try and do anything new in SSIS. My impression is that although SSIS is more powerful, it is much harder...

Shrinkfile would have failed, the log header was corrupt. No amount of shrinking would help here, the problem was not that the log was too large, it was that the...

Just a thought for everyone and more of a question than a suggestion but in this situation would not be worth shrinking the log file with DBCC SHRINKFILE?

I have...