Yes, free market now.

But back in the 1970's, without the limit, the only cards in wide use were American Express and Diner's Club.

Credit card companies focus on fraud because they have to. A long time ago, a law was passed limiting the card holder's exposure to $50. (thank government regulations...

Great article, thanks!

I, as others have commented, were hoping that this new feature might be useful.

Unless I am missing something, if the server has sufficient memory, then the data tends...

Ah, the good old days. Guess I've been around, as I knew someone who had wired memory cores. For me, I learned with Hollerith cards (aka punch cards) and...

Thanks for the write up. it's great to hear advances in the column store, and the ability to insert new data to a table with a column store Index (for...

the difference between a proactive or reactive state.

- or perhaps - "Isn't it the users job to tell the DBA when a job did not finish?"

I've seen several major ERP systems designed using views (JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, etc) . It adds a security layer and makes it easier to change the underlying data structure....

Glad I am not the only one looking for a reasonably priced ER tool. They are great,

if the budget can handle it. If possible, I use ERwin. There...

Interesting perspective. I'm not sure I'd use the terms 'code' and 'data', but unique and non-unique indexes are very different, with different uses. And I do like the...

If you give a mechanic a new tool, does he dump all his other tools? No, but it seems developers tend to view the latest new database widget as...

I'd like to think that everyone in an organization is kind, courteous and helpful, but alas it just is not so. So when you wrote on about someone going...

Well said. I like the idea of SQL Server in the cloud, but the tools keep coming in short. On more than one occasion I've been hired to fix...

Wow, I'm just amazed that this is such a sensitive topic. As the others have said, each organization has its own approach. As long as it works. But it...

Once SQL Server started to support the ANSI 92 join logic with v6.5, I switched. the old style was just too difficult to follow the logic.

Company cultures are really quite different, and the success of a company has a direct affect on the success of its employees. So, choose your company wisely, or become...