Revenant (1/12/2012)

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ben.mcintyre (1/12/2012)

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As primarily a c# coder, I emphatically disagree with this proposition.

In fact, being able to compile frequently (any I often do it once every couple of minutes) allows...

As primarily a c# coder, I emphatically disagree with this proposition.

In fact, being able to compile frequently (any I often do it once every couple of minutes) allows me to...

Jeez Jeff, I knew you'd been doing Tally tables for a long time, but you wrote the article THAT long ago ?

Talk about nativity ...

If you're using production data, then it depends how strongly you're wanting to anonymize it.

Changing names/genders/dob/addresses etc is probably enough to protect the data at a basic level as long...

A recent discussion with a client brought up a point it is vital to understand clearly - the difference between (1) hardware failure, eg. a drive dies, and (2) data...

This is an interesting little discussion bubbling along here.

John's security points are well made, but I agree with Steve that these can apply equally well to 'internal' servers. After...

The Sidekick data loss was a classic for this:

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/10/t-mobile-microsoft-lost-all-the-sidekick-backups/

paul.knibbs (12/21/2010)

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I'm curious--what would you class as a "sensible way"? I've often...

Jedak (12/17/2010)

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Query Analyzer still works. In fact, I use to all the time to develop...

By Toutatis, I hate to be the first naysayer, but SSMS has to be the biggest pile of steaming crap ever to be the excuse for a dev env. Using...

I'm still trying to get over the cognitive dissonance generated by having to post to this forum to have the discussion.

Interesting ... I always noted that if you changed the name of an SP or view in EM for SQL2000 that a similar effect occurred, and you had to double...

Gazumped ! I was going to say SequoiaView for hard drive display - always helps me hunt down what's taking up the Gigs.

Interestingly, I find that a lot of my effort is spent not on actually learning things, but more on meta-learning about things - for example, I don't know that much...

True, but it's the same with every service. What happens when everyone picks up the phone at the same time and wants to dial interstate ? What happens...