This is a pretty amazing thread. What I haven't heard anyone mention or emphasize are the business requirements that the data is modeling. Surely the database design has to meet...

I sure can't tell you how to measure quality. We do try to add quality as a requirement in the code we right. We're following the test driven development methodology...

Well written article, but a couple of points.

It doesn't really get into Best Practices much at all. With the exception of some SQL 2000 best practices that will prevent...

When I see words like "heavily indexed" red flags go up. How heavily indexed, and are all those indexes being used (selectivity needs to be as high as possible in...

Nice article.

On the topic of looking to see if they have a blog. I've developed the habit of doing a google search on people's names we're thinking of hiring, even consultants....

What? No one is posting scores?

Assuming either full positive, full  negative or zero, I got an 82.

Fun article. Thanks for putting it up.

As to those who don't like the developers...

Nice to see someone else including Keynes, since his economic models practically ran the planet for 50 years. I'm just surprised you didn't include his polar opposite Hayek, whose theories,...

John Keynes

Friedrich Hayek

(the conflict between these two schools of economic process had lasting effects on the planet. Hayek has been proven right and Keynes discredited, but the debate continues)

Robert...

You deleted the user from the database, but not the login from the server? Just a guess.

If the login is still there, they're connecting through it, not through the NT/AD...

I thought this was a useful, well written article. Not exactly up to the advertising, but very good. Please, drop a few of the exclamation points next time.

Crossed a picket line in Oklahoma to see "Life of Brian", great movie.

The thing with religion is, it can be quite scary for those of us outside. For example, I...

Woah! Language & morals aren't the same. A person can be morally clean as a whistle while using a nice anglo-saxon word in every sentence uttered. They'd be rude (possibly,...

You're an evil man. I like it. Thanks for sharing the secret.

Steve,

Your response was a giant disapointment. You didn't tell us what ch*** is? What's up with that. Huge let down. I'm surprised they let you post here.

May be so, but to be honest, one could argue that artificial keys over natural keys is simply a personal opinion, albeit one a bit more applicable to the subject...