London, sign me up if you'd like a DBA with 3 decades of experience who loves to sip a pint and watch football at the corner pub.

"You can use whatever you want as long as you don't work for my company, but I do not see a reason for referring to a customer name as customers.name...

I appreciate the fact that universities have been teaching the singular concept for years. It is a topic that I have debated with folks like Ted Codd and Chris Date...

I advocate the use of English for naming standards. Never use abbreviations or acronyms. If the word can't be found on dictionary.com then don't use it. No prefixes or suffixes...

It is a better practice to perform the data transfer first, then apply the indexes. And it runs a whole lot faster.

Perhaps, that is why MS dropped the Object...

All of these arguments go out the window when you begin encrypting data. Scope_Identity loses scope in an INSTEAD OF INSERT (or UPDATE) trigger returning NULL.

And for historical accuracy,...

I fought against the inclusion of cursors in the original SQL spec, but COBOL programmers of the late 70's had great difficulty wrapping their mind around a technique that did...

I love the old classics from Jules Verne. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, written in 1870, talked of technology that...