Actually, I first heard about the flat consumption tax idea in an Economics class way back in college in the late 80's. It was presented to us as being proposed...

After reading through the material, the proposal sounds fine ***IF*** the following is absolutely, Constitutionally enforced:

1. Income tax in any form is completely abolished. They (FairTax) have already proposed that an...

Where a consumption tax gets ugly is in Value Added Products. You are Alice who makes Engine Widgets. You sell your Engine Widgets to Bob who pays tax at the...

I'm an independent developer. Hiring a CPA was one of the best business decisions I ever made. My guy works with me to help grow my business. He asks me...

> If you do not want users to have direct access to your tables

> , then I submit that you can't use triggers as the user affecting

> the change...

If that level of auditing were required, then I would recommend using a program that snifs the actual transaction log. That avoids both the ugliness of triggers and the insecurity...

Something that has not been mentioned in all of this is the method by which applications are connecting to the SQL Server. If they are connecting through direct, trusted...

I suppose I do not see the world of solutions as black-and-white. I make a concerted effort to structure my database using normalization however if an EAV solution (of which...

Extensibility can easily be addressed by factoring those particular "lookup" values out the main table when they need more than just an ID and a name. Presuming you have an...

> The database contains the relationship rules, the integrity

> rules, the data constraints. The sole purpose of a

> How you store them depends on the app" sums up

> the problem quite nicely.  Applications come and go, data persists.

See, I feel that this statement is too simplistic....

Not to rain on your parade or anything, but I think you need to go back and re-take Economics 101. Your graph is all wrong. It should look like this:

I agree, in general with the author’s premise as long as the database is accessible directly. When developers are able to access the database directly...

To argue “DRI or No DRI” is to argue using a false dilemma. Sometimes the decision is not so black-and-white. Personally, I use DRI unless...