Nice. Thanks for sharing!

Either way, all the developers need...

Many of the replies in favor of schemas make sense to me. However:

In my environment, schemas are simply not necessary or helpful. When I want tables to be...

Lawrence: I wanted to say that I appreciate both the original article and all your follow up work. I had read elsewhere about performance problems with the functions...

My situation is similar to others. I likely would not use or appreciate video very much. I mostly use this site by reading the article summaries of the...

Jason: Thanks for the head's up on the deadlines. I'll be passing that info onto my boss.

I personally (as opposed to reasons from our organization) want to upgrade for two reasons: 1) I think the 2005 performance or perhaps just our implementation of it has been...

To all those kind people with opinions about upgrading, I wonder what your thoughts are for people still on 2005? We want to upgrade but are uncertain which version...

This is the best article on APPLY that I've read. I particularly appreciate the paragraph: "APPLY calls the function once for each row from the input. ...to produce the...

I want to weigh in on the jargon discussion.

I don't think I've heard the term "bridge" table before, and yet without even reading the article, I knew instantly what the...

So well written and explained. Thanks for taking the time to share this with us.

We keep backups for Monday through Friday, cycling through. Logs are done approximately every 2 hours during business hours.

But while our databases are important, they are relatively small. ...

Living in Oregon, USA, getting to Seattle is "sellable" to my agency. Locations in other parts of the country generally are not.

That said, I think it would be fair...

What great timing for this article!

I'm just finishing up the design for an application that involves a "call module". This module is a place for users to record various...

sreid08: Interesting article that adds greatly to the discussion. Thanks for posting it.