I prefer spaces simply for the main reason that T-SQL code is easier portable and readable between SSMS and BIDS.

BIDS by default uses 8 spaces for a tab where...

I still consider it a nicely featured Beta product.

It is powerful and certainly up to any task thrown at it now in 2008 (or even better in R2) but the...

One other problem is the enforcement. While I like the idea to pay by scale how can unscrupulous customers be forced to pay the right scale?

So buying one core, 2GB...

I know this as "Pebkac" - Problem exists between keyboard and chair.

"Dead as a flat badger." Followed by the analogy:

"Sure you can drive with a push bike the 100 miles. But if you want to arrive there quick, you better take...

Definitely T-SQL itself!

For no other reason that you can draw Mandelbrot with it.

(http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Stupid-Coding-Tricks-The-TSQL-Madlebrot.aspx)

Only in a very few miniscule cases where I heard this start it was way too late to turn the ship (project) around and get...

What I liked was SQL Sentry (http://www.sqlsentry.com/) when I saw a demo four years ago. It's not that it just notices the problems but to allow to see...

Thor hands down.

Though being a god he knows what it is to be an old frail man and is humble enough to see his limits.

Besides a winged helmet and flowing...

Nearly excellent.

Two things that made it only good for me is the "typical" fact that the date calculation works only for the US (and Canada). The other is the RBAR...

With 100 being the introduction, 200 basic, 300 intermediate and 400 advanced as a measure I like to go at times to the 400 level just to blow my mind....

Maybe all that's needed to organise is to make clear what level a course / event is aimed at using simple 3 step numbers.

SQL Bits (http://sqlbits.com/information/event6/PublicSessions.aspx Sessions from 6th event)...

anelson 66875 (7/2/2010)Hiring is one of the hardest, most high-stakes things we do. If there's going to be a test, maybe it should be given to those of us...

What type of position is it?

Junior or Senior?

As for Senior programmers who have been in the job for a while (and got it done), yes, for sure, do some testing...

My favourite of describing a whole system with its associated processes:

"If this is a car, then it has wonky wheels, the tires are rundown beyond any legal limit, the paint...