Valek,

So would SSIS packages setup to use the sample DB's like advetureworks not be portable and therefore be able to serve as templates? Aside from the login/security settings...

Adam,

Thanks! Thats exactly what I was looking for. We are new to switching over to 2005 and I did not realize there were scripting options nor did I...

Nick Brenner (4/1/2008)

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Not laughing. Not laughing at all. Good thing I read it all the way through before forwarding it on to my boss. He would not...

Theonly way to get this changed and something effective put in place is to tie customer satisfaction of the product (in this case , Connect) to salaries of those who...

Steve Jones - Editor (1/29/2008)

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Let the developers build the best product they can and if they can't get everything done, release it with less features. If you're going to release...

Richard Gardner (1/29/2008)

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This is going to be controversial but I actually agree with abitrary deadlines, otherwise what date do you work to? Work expands to fill the time you have...

One thing I've never understood is why the need to version the products by Years instead of incrmental numbers. Assigning 2008 as the version name places an unecessary bruden/stress...

I also get the same batch of error msgs upon parseing of the SQL.

Alan Robbins (1/25/2008)

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I am reminded of the old adage:

If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

The more flexibility we have, the more agility we...

rick (1/25/2008)

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Straegen (5/2/2005)

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Not buying it. In many (read most) small companies, the dev is the SQL guy and the software developer. Most small company devs will leave TSQL quickly since...

There's nothing wrong with it at all. I was just looking...

David,

Thanks for the reply. I was afraid the answer would be along those lines. I was hoping there might be something in SQL 2005 for this...

In the article there's a link to an article on the authros site (http://www.transactsql.com).  The link doesn'yt work for me; is it working for anyone else?  ANyone know if...

'..only technically superior approaches become standards'

Are you kidding me?

I'm not saying you do or don't know SQL and or RDBMS well but I can tell your not famialir with marketing. ...

Thanks to everyone who has replied so far, especially with providing such detailed responses.  When I posted the orginal question I now realized I was not conveying everything I was...