I worked for many years under such a rating system. One of the big problems is the size of the sample used. Each group (DBAs, Analysts, Programmers, etc) even though...

For my personal use, I don't have a problem with everything combined. However, I have corporate responsibility for creating installation packages for application users needing the management tools and developers...

From my reading of Microsoft's licensing information, you are NOT allowed to use Developer Edition in Production. However, you can use Standard, Enterprise, Workgroup or Express Editions in any environment.

I am not exactly sure how you are measuring productivity. One of my responsibilities as a Senior Corporate DBA is to assist the DBAs working in various business components and...

While I think the article covered a minor part of maintaining a development environment, I disagree strongly about restoring production data to the development databases. I work in a...