I have updated the initial query so that it will indicate the enabled/disabled triggers in a SQL Server 2005 database.

SELECT T.[name] as TableName,

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You might want to look at O'Reilly's "SQL Cookbook" or Deac Lancaster's "Transact-SQL Desk Reference" or Henderson's "The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL". Finally, you might also want to look...

When I was doing independent consulting and developing, I got burned by this sort of thing . . . the proverbial "perpetual scope creep". I then revised my contract...

Ten Centuries,

And thus, the crux of the issue . . . as my first management instructor would have put it, "Money is not a Satisfier but, rather, a Dissatisfier." ...

Sorry about the previous rant . . . yesterday was a really bad day. :-/

I have updated my resume and am considering returning to Road Warrior status. I also...

Paul,

I have always operated under the concept that was taught to me by my first Computer Science instructor, "You will never be paid what you are worth because the company...

Easy there . . . that's...

Steve,

As much as I would love the idea, I am afraid this is another "wishful tinking" idea. If companies could deal with the issues reasonably, then it would probably...

[qoute]About the cost of the tools. The cost of a C# development environment is --- free. You can download the C# Express version from Microsoft for free. Same for SQL...

One thing I see as a potential problem is that logically you could have an 'ActorReview' and a 'ProductionReview' that share the same ReviewId which is not desired. In fact...

Perhaps I may not have presented my thoughts as clearly as I could have. My point with regard to training appears to have been somewhat misinterpreted.

Why is it the...

I would want to have a little more information about how the data will be used in order to make an absolute commitment; however, I would have to wonder if...

Michael,

Your quote from Machiavelli is absolutely on target. Machiavelli gets a pretty bad rap and most people use the term "Machiavellian" to mean sneaky and underhanded or cold and...

massawa,

If you are going to develop a VB6 application after you create the database, then you would use Visual Basic Version 6 (i.e. VB6) to create the software. If...

Steve,

I think that there is a (perhaps not so) subtle age discrimination attitude that is being demonstrated in the market place these days. More and more, it seems that...