Let me restate my question.

After moving some huge tables to their own file groups, I will end up with five files in the primary file group with about 95% free...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/7/2013)

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Tom John-342103 (11/7/2013)

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At one point, one of the telcos started to offer billing to the nearest second or something like that where the competition could...

At one point, one of the telcos started to offer billing to the nearest second or something like that where the competition could only do it to the minute. ...

In some business situations, time is of the essence. If a competitor rolls out a great new offer that requires you to change your systems, and you have to...

When you design and deploy a system, the general concept and architecture need to be sound. You can't really cut corners in this area. However, if the first...

Still, the concept of delivery good-enough (if that is what "a little bit clunky" means) is valid and correct since good-enough today is better than perfection a year from now....

If "a little clunky" means that the application is good enough, then by all means roll it out. Because "good enough" delivered today beats perfection delivered tomorrow 100% of...

I remember about a million years ago attending Cobol training when I started with Arthur Andersen. At that time, we were instructed that GOTO statements were the most evil...

Sometimes there is no avoiding cursors. I have yet to see how allocation can be done properly without using a cursor. I would be happy to use some...

"Fudge" is a word I would try to avoid - it is hard to make it sound like a good thing. A well-designed penny-rounding method should minimize the difference...

There are many cases where penny rounding simply must be performed. Many times in billing applications, a fee will be calculated on a tiered fee scheduled based on the...

If the allocation method and approach for treating unallocated remainders is transparent, how is it fraud. Again, this is a rounding problem where the sum of the allocated amounts...

It depends on the rounding situation. I deal with situations where the following is possible:

An invoice has 100 line items of .01 each. The total is subject to...

Where is the fraud in penny rounding as long as it is done properly?

The problem is that, in many cases, you have to round to the nearest penny. This leads to the penny rounding problem.