As they used to say in the project management unit I did at uni:

"Time, quality and cost. Pick any two!"

Would I be correct in saying that decreased data replication is a major reason why normalisation and foreign keys decrease storage requirements?

There is a reason why my old university teaches you normalisation before they even let you touch SQL with a kilometre long pole. In my opinion, the only remotely forgivable...

You can try to Google "IDENTITY SQL Server"

I am sure you will get lots of information which can't be provided in a single forum

If you still have any doubts after...

If Steve worked with our company, he'd be in a lot of trouble. Seriously, the number of problems we've had because users haven't rebooted there machine in ages is ridiculous....

I took one look at this article and thought "What's so special about this?" It's hardly revolutionary!

I agree, but you would hope someone computer literate enough to be a developer, would also...

patrickmcginnis59 (3/22/2012)

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Lynn Pettis (3/22/2012)

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UnbalancedKarma (3/22/2012)

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http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10135/Not-Another-C-Versus-VB-Article?msg=3050761#xx3050761xx

The article is the usual C#/VB snobbery and in-fighting but the linked reply makes some good points in the case for VB.NET.

Comparing the two is...

SQL Guy 1 (3/20/2012)

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Here is an interesting article about why VB is better that C#:

http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/10-reasons-why-visual-basic-is-better-than-c/?utm_source=simpletalk&utm_medium=email-main&utm_content=vb10reasons-20120319&utm_campaign=.NET%5B/quote%5D

This is one of the single most opinionated/biased article I have ever read!...

I think we can safely say that the majority of modern programming languages (including C#) have a high amount of influence from C or one of its deriavatives. Therefore, C#...