....that and as hjp dais, good documentation.

I'm a developer so I have a genetic predisposition against DBAs (Can't help it sorry 🙂 )> We have suffered DBAs going in to...

Yes, wise words and completely relevant. But mostly, desktop apps run in environments that don't have the luxury of onsite DBAs and even the bigger companies we work with I...

Prior to the EF gaining prominence in our applications, our code base managed all aspects of table structure, indexes, primary and foreign keys, functions and stored procs. It did the...

I find abstraction overdone, but I am firstly a developer and secondly a DBA. In fact, we write a lot of code precisely to replace tedious DBA involvement, leaving to...