The question this article asks about developers rings true for me too (I have no formal SQL or DBMS training, rather mathematics and CS). It's amazing how many blank stares...

I did something similar...

Thanks Gail that should do fine.

IMHO one of the biggest mistakes a development shop can make is failing to tap the power of the database engine by placing all the T-SQL in the application code...

Thanks, I guess I'll have to do it manually for 2000.

Oops, forgot to mention that I have to do this on both 2005 and 2000. Thanks.

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Shane

A short rant on budgeting.

Everyone could easily have a budget if the idiots at the banks could see past the ends of their noses. For years I have been...

I do, but I'm not a dba, so I won't have the same experience as most on this list.

One big problem for OODBMS (at least in terms of market...

I've seen people fired for hand bombing RI for decades too...

One issue tends to be that the developers act out of fear. In the bad old days dbms's could be...

I've not yet put it into production, but Hibernate is becoming the defacto standard in the java world for OR mapping. It's a robust tool that has matured to the...

We used to do sabaticals of sorts. We took 6 weeks every two years in a rotating schedule. The projects were highly work focused in that they were all software...

The ODBC bridge is a last resort. No one involved in making the product recommends that it be used for production work.

When we dumpled CrystalReports in favour of something which...

Presumably, the only 'gain' one may see is easier to understand comparison operators (e.g. ,...) If one compares two datetime instances with '<' the difference is resolved at a higher...

there is surprisingly little available. See:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=23&messageid=143718

I'd go with developer

The thing you should consider is what comes beyond this or your present position. What does the carreer ladder look...