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  • RE: Beginning Database Design - Spot the Flaws

    As far as I know, I do not do agile programming. However, I do use prototypes extensively. In fact, my users never see or have to approve a...

  • RE: Beginning Database Design - Spot the Flaws

    R L Reid wrote (11/21/2007)


    ...Based on the description of the project (a casual collection of personal book reviews), why are you bothering with a database?...

    That wasn't the only description we...

  • RE: Beginning Database Design - Spot the Flaws

    Scope Creep?

    Maybe. I agree that you don't want to make a project more complicated than it needs to be. But the key here is "than it needs to...

  • RE: Beginning Database Design - Spot the Flaws

    Here's another idea that (like others) adds to the scope, but seems in keeping with the spirit of the discussion. The initial requirements list rarely covers the needs of...

  • RE: Beginning Database Design - Spot the Flaws

    I appreciate this discussion. Most especially, I appreciate it when people explain the *whys* for their recommendations. It helps to understand where people are coming from. Just...

  • RE: Tuning

    Matt:

    You have a point. Thanks for your reply.

    - JJ

  • RE: Tuning

    "Pay you now or pay you later." How about pay you never? I work in a place that can't afford real DBAs, not even as occasional consultants. ...

  • RE: Linking Access to SQL Server

    Iordan Slavov (11/2/2007) wrote:

    Do you mind to share some code? Thanks.

    Also, I have a unpleasant problem with ADP and SS2000/05. When trying to run behind an Access form (in VBA)...

  • RE: Linking Access to SQL Server

    Steve,

    You addressed your question to Wayne, but I would like to reply. I have been using SQL Server 2005 for over a year. I have about a hundred...

  • RE: Linking Access to SQL Server

    I use .mdbs for front-end applications for many of the reasons mentioned above. My backend databases are SQL Server 2005. While I am very comfortable using EM and...

  • RE: Date and Time in SQL Server 2008

    Datetime2? I agree. Yuck. Why not BigDatetime? We have SmallDatetime...

  • RE: Half a Million

    My agency can't afford to buy me a SQL Server magazine. Yet I'm still the only gal around who has to (really: GETS TO) create the databases which my...

  • RE: A Love Hate Affair with User Defined Types

    I thought the article did a great job of explaining UDTs, and then explaining the pros and cons. I was aware of the pros, but not so aware of...

  • RE: Nesting Stored Procedures

    Jeaux wrote: "My question is why couldn't you rewrite the example..." I have a different answer to this question. I once had a stored procedure with a similar...

  • RE: Lookup Table Madness

    I want to reply to the note posted above:

    "But I haven't been able to define, nor have I ever heard anyone else define, a useful generalized definition...

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