I read a lot here but don't post much. To this thread I have a strong opinion.

If I have one knock on Apple it is that the current generation...

[font="Tahoma"]The reality is that MS has become the GE of the IT industry. The "core businesses" and "strategic direction" change depending on the perceptions and trends in the wider industry....

I agree with a lot already mentioned. One additional comment is that in my experience, a view created as "*" will need to be altered should the underlyinig table schema...

This is a creative script and very flexible and I thank you for it.

However I have used Excel to create Insert statements for a long time without leaning on...

I agree and believe the long term picture is bleaker than many are...

Steve, I agree. I believe IT resources and people are an untapped, strategic advantage because many business leaders fail to look at them beyond thier 'techie' capabilities, instead of seeing...

Steve,

I agree that professionals that bridge the gap between understanding how to mine and apply data for decision making are critical skills that are missing in the marketplace. What I...

Change is good; stability is better.

It seems most of the upgrades are just change, result in a new learning curve, and introduce instability at first; and the SW industry (MS +...

Green on Black works best for me.

Maybe it's throw-back to VT52 terminals in college, but from the earliest days of my first IBM PCJr, one of the things in the...

I attended the Univ of Michigan Engr School (back in the dark ages of early '80s). The College of Engineering required us to include a similar honor pledge on each exam or major assignment apart from...

The biggest problem I've experienced with PK/FK constraints is in attempting to export/import data via DTS (for example in moving a development database to a staging server for testing). However I...

Since you didn't post the code snipet, one of the first things I would check is to make sure that you DEALLOCATE the cursors after you CLOSE them.