Somebody help me out here, what does ETL stand for?

On the topic of Profiler, here is the number one feature I would like to see. Maybe it's already there and I just have not found it, but...

I wish that...

Interesting that all four choices have almost equal number of hits, right now they are all at about 25%

Never having worked with clustered...

I was hoping for the synthax [sic] error, never seen one of those before 

I ran the query and one row was returned, but it was the row where c2 = 9.0, not c2 = a as described in the explanation. I suspect that...

I'm with Mads on this one, what is the purpose of the second store procedure? Does anyone really use this feature?

Nice QOD, I didn't even know this function existed.

Chris, no offense taken, I am enjoying the debate.

Let me put my point of view in better perspective. A software company would not survive if it released software where basic...

I'd say that if you are waiting for your company to pay for your training then you've got it all wrong. You should invest the time and money in yourself...

Condoning it is not the right way to describe my point of view. I see it as a business decision that must be made before the software is released.

I'm saying...

Ah yes, but it is the definition of "doing it right the first time" that makes this debate interesting.

Started programming in 1978 on an IBM Mainframe in Fortran. Moved to UNISYS Mainframes in the Air Force (Langley AFB) where I was first exposed to DMS-1100, a hierarchical database.

I then...

The decision of when to release software is a balancing act between many different things. How many features, how many bugs are acceptable, time to market, price, available resources, market...

Well, upgrading software is not exactly like selling a car with a new paint scheme so I'm not sure the analogy is correct.

Just in the 11 years that I...

Being in the commercial software development business myself, I can attest to the fact that it makes little business sense to support the older versions of the software. We are...