Pretty interesting read. It conforms perfectly with the zealous DBA's I already know... lock it down first, ask questions later... then when the developers can't figure out why the...

I don't need to see the result set. Surely there's a better way... Frankly ridiculous, the cursor is for searching or updating an individual row, why would I need...

I didn't get the impression that the author was trying to show off, and most of the comments are well founded, but I especially agree with the "answers were nebulous"...

When a review about SQL Server 2005 books is the goal, all the books listed should be about SQL Server 2005.  The 2005 books mentioned were specialized in a single...