We upgraded from 2000 to 2005 some time ago. The biggest problem with that upgrade was re-writing all the DTS packages into SSIS, and that truly was a nightmare....

dphillips: Thanks for the reply. Your examples are great.

I find that staff (my customers) can vaguely define some functionality that they want, but they just do...

Here's another idea for, "how do you allocate limited resources among departments?"

How about letting IT decide? I make it my business to know our business. While I generally...

This article was well written. I appreciate the time you took to lay it all out in a logical manner and to explain the different scenarios. Most helpful....

I LOVED this article, both the general content and the specific examples.

I try to build these types of ideas into my applications all the time and have another example to...

I'm a big fan of template use. They do save so much time, especially when you use templates for the big stuff like stored procedures. However, since I...

I'm under the impression that SQL Server 2008 is getting rid of the current timestamp behavior and changing to be a real date-time data type rather than binary. I...

Chris Harshman (1/23/2009)

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It's not that I don't like using SQL Server, ... The tools and features that come with [SQL Server] provide so much more value than Oracle does....

Jeff Moden (1/23/2009)

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I'm good with that... I've used both Oracle and SQL Server... I have to admit that I "cut my teeth" on SQL Server so there's some predjudice but,...

I appreciate all the ideas posted here. They have re-awakened some of my own itches.

At the same time, looking at these posts has depressed me. I hope we...

Great article. More than deciding what to put in the list itself, I appreciated that you gave enough of a description of each product that I could tell you...

What a well written, easy to understand article. Thanks for doing it. I found the content of the article relevant and appropriate. I also appreciate the discussion...

I appreciate this article and discussion.

I have to do ad-hoc report queries off of a Sybase database created by an other agency (let's call them the State). I have...

Jeff, Thanks for doing all that work and also for the copy tip. Both came in helpful for me!

- JJ

There's one part of this article that I particularly appreciated. I had often read about certain tasks not not belonging in a trigger. But I could not figure...