Get well soon, Ken!

I'm guilty of a number of bad comments in my code. Some of my favorites are (all paraphrased):

Per {executive}, doing it this way.

This is a really bad idea but...

That is an absolutely staggering amount of data to me. I work at about 1/100 that scale - 1B rows and about 80 partitions/filegroups for my largest project with...

Yup, it looks like this is a topic of interest.

I'll get a decent quality yet small article written up tonight most likely.

This seems simple enough to be a good starting point for me to contribute to the SSC community.

I can take this one, Steve, if you'd like.

Sean: I think...

I've had to deal with a 32bit identity value that starts at 1, design and business changes mean that the expected range of a few million is now several billion...and...

Jeff nailed it. The description and visual formatting need a lot of work, and I think you've gotten great advice above. I am a distributor for a competing...

Yes! We could call the first one Twitchy and the other one...

Right, it's never good to keep a career or industry dependent on someone else not learning the basic secrets. When being a DBA becomes an art form, that's when...

I started as an accidental DBA on MSSQL about 8 years ago, and I made a lot of the classic mistakes surrounding maintenance. Some of my mistakes led to...

What I've done in the past (and created an entire customer-facing product from) is to make a set of generic templates: 2, 4, or 8 columns. Abstract the data...

I've burned out on programming before, so I don't really do much development or SQL at home anymore. It used to be fascinating, exciting, but with the corporate rules...

I've encountered the rude awakening a few times myself. Once, at a company that had no DBA, just "the SQL boy," a manager issued a DROP TABLE statement by...