How do you handle the all too common situation where a feature is not used because it just can't be done well enough or complete enough as a small change...

This is a beautiful thing for debugging.  Should there be a concern however, about potentially leaking sensitive data via attacks that exploit the error messages?  Perhaps that is why they...

The editorial makes a good point. I don't mind putting on the reading glasses when I sit down at my computer, but it's ridiculous to me to have to do...

Generally I like stored procedures too for many of the reasons already mentioned. One real world problem we had however, that caused us to move all or business logic back...

We've been working with SSIS quite a bit and it does feel brittle. Both the tools and the core functions seem like they got them to the beta stage and...

Clearly there are 1/10 x programmers but does that truly mean we have 10 x programmers? It all depends on how you define x. If x is the...

I'd like to use search in this way but I'm so disappointed in how outlook search works (or doesn't) Also the fact that Ctrl-F means Forward instead of Find...

Security is also an issue. We've seen instances where customers steal code that is in Stored Procedures, take over maintenance themselves, and stop paying for the product. If more...

I did something very similar which is working great. The commit after each small batch is the real secret. I also put a WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:02' into the...

I agree that they should have only one edition with all the features. They could set price points and use licensing to enforce them. The difference would be...