C'mon, where are the "Mark of the Beast" comments??

Really, nature has already given us a GUID. It's called DNA. That bit of technology has been around for billions of...

Certifications really form one leg of the golden triangle:

1. Education

2. Training

3. Experience

One might argue points 1 & 2 are the same but I'm thinking of Education as the theory, Training...

I'm a fan of the maintenance plans. It offers an easy way to implement a basic maintenance regime, which is useful for people who aren't full-time DBA's. Sure, you can...

Let's run that list again:

SQL 2008 R2

Windows 2008 R2

Office 2010

Visual Studio 2010

(Windows 7)

(Exchange 2010)

You have to think about it; that's a big list. I would guess that 1/2 (or more)...

Steve Eckhart (5/22/2009)

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Steve,

I find it very sad that your description of Memorial Day, "something that celebrates the start of warm weather and time off," is all that Memorial Day means...

Price leadership from Oracle? I nearly fell off my chair in hysteria. I mean seriously?

"...and I wish for world peace. and enough food for all the kids. and my two...

The Brainbench comment certainly attracted more attention than I had anticipated. It popped into my head and I thought it might be worth a mention because people have different preferences.

It...

You could try posting to some of the LinkedIn groups like SQL Server Professionals or PASS. It's definitely a targeted audience. Of course, it's also a place where recruiters lurk...

Er, no sorry. Read it just now. OK, so it was a capacity issue unrelated to SQL. Well, that's...

Uh oh, the dreaded clustered vs. non-clustered argument. Well, in this specific case, it might have been better to go with the non-clustered option. But it's easy to say that...

Dynamic SQL! Why would you do it? Why?? It's because you hate the DBA, isn't it?

On the bright side, the Cloud will magically fix all of these problems for us...

Hmmm, I'm thinking more Service Broker. Or maybe even a streaming database like Streambase. But I suppose you could get SSIS to do it. Maybe an SSIS package called via...

Two degrees: Chemistry and MIS. One science, one business. Both almost as useless as tits on a mule in the SQL space. The education allowed me to fill someone's graduate...

Thanks for the article Roy. It's concise, interesting, informative and well-written. 5 stars for you!

What's a bit sad is that "borrowing" T-SQL or any other online resource is that it doesn't really help us learn better. Should job requirements say: "Must know how to...