Yeah, I don't think Steve is advocating releasing software that is 20% broken. I think it's more to do with releasing software that works to a point, rather than...

This is a really interesting area for discussion.

I feel that as I've become older I am less tolerant of having to learn new technologies, instead getting frustrated at steep learning...

Good grief, sweeping generalisation about developers there, Steve. Seems to me that if a developer is implementing incorrect indexes etc, then it's actually the DBAs fault for letting them...

Congratulations. A great milestone and an even greater way of marking it.

He's clearly going to vote Republican - he called the US a company 😀

Basically, we're just rubbish at this estimating lark.

I also find that when estimating something incorrectly but in the positive way, i.e. you think you'll end up finishing sooner, that I...

I run a number of maintenance plans that are set to delete backups over x days old.  These all work correctly and I've never had a problem with older backups...

None.  Steve, send me an SSC T, please!

The big difference for me was that cars are in short supply in the US.  What?  I hear you cry.  It's true though.  Trucks, jeeps, SUVs etc, you barely see...

I can see it's been covered already, but the way that 'single, unattached' people are often dismissed in these sorts of discussions never fails to amaze me.  Try being single,...

Method 2 is my method of choice.

As for the example above, in that situation I'd probably name the columns FromStageID and ToStageID to keep the 'StageID' part.

Oh, I see.  Good change, well made

The page that the raffle link points to says donations are for 'http://www.readytogiveup.com' - that's a typo, right?

Yes, I know you already have a unique ID column; you seem more concerned about PKs that can change their value.  Hence adding a code column whereby you specify the...

You say '...if 1 becomes something different...', but what if the description for 'Phone' changes - then your first query won't be correct.

Consider adding a unique code column to the...