Very interesting article.

I did microcontroller code for consumer and inductrial products before moving to 'PC' code, and it's very easy to add additional hidden 'features' to a hardware product. ...

Wow. There are people who do lie on thier resumes, and I've interviewed quite a few of them. NEver ceases to amaze me... one person I interviewed was...

Nice work! This is useful!

Great Article!

I'd love to install the reports on a management server and have it email me the results from each of our servers, haven't quite started looking at how to...

this would be awesome for us - we end up using a 3rd party tool, instead of buying EE- it's cheaper and achieves the same result.

It would save us quite...

I like the comparison of schemas to namespaces. a shared database containing groups of tables for different things (addresses, customers, etc) could use schemas depending on what logical grouping...

I think I'll take the money!:-D

Brad,

Great article!

I find that physical activities away from being a DBA help. I lift weights 4x a week and train in Kempo, Arnis and Aikido 4x a week. ...

Barry,

Pretty good article - it could launch someone down the path of becoming a DBA. Lots more to becoming a DBA, but it's a start.

I like the idea of...

Good Question!

Never heard it referred to as open schema, but it make sense, mostly EAV or name-value pairs.

Mark

Andy - I would agree.

Only thing that bothers me is when people use meaningless abbreviations like

select a.somefield, b.somefield

from table1 a, table2data b

A and B are not too informative....

wagner crivelini (10/7/2009)

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Hi, super, thanks for your comments ... (and thanks everybody for all other comments on this articles).

I feel it's rather risky to try to find a golden rule...

Wagner,

You might want to mention in the:

"Excluding the Intersection of the Sets" section this is similar to

select... where not in (select... from table2) but it performs alot better w/...

Pretty good information!

Agreed. In general this is a bad...