"In the US in the last couple weeks we've seen a recession potentially turn into a depression."

No. We aren't *in* a recession, much less a depression. The cowards of wall...

Quite frankly trusting the internet with your business data is insane.

By necessity the only third-party data service I trust with my data is ADP payroll--and only because everyone is...

Prime example of "challenging" software: Toad Data Modeller. 🙂

I love this program, I hate this program. It does let me visually layout my database (essential), it does generate correct SQL,...

As far as windmills being green, well, not so much. Apparently there are problems with bats as well as birds, apparantly bats' lungs explode in the low pressure areas around...

Eliminating stored procedures to do simple CRUD, ok. Eliminating stored procedures for *everything*? Disaster.

The single most important aspect of stored procedures is (when called from triggers or constraints) they are...

Technically speaking RAND() is only pseudo-random, thus it is by definition always deterministic.

Now, if the question were "Does the RAND() function create a fixed series of numbers only when a...

I used to work for a consulting company that was certificate crazy. They thought it impressed the customers to have all their employees dripping with certificates.

That company went belly up...

I've...

Here at work I'm not "an IT guy" I'm *the* IT guy. 🙂

Because there's no one else. I do everything from replacing mice to architecting our primary backbone application.

I don't...

What skills does a developer who's also the DBA need? How about these? (listed in order of importance)

Skill #1:

How to design a database properly! If you're the DBA *and* the...

I wonder if we're arguing semantics. Does Steve mean within 10-20% of the *functionality* or 10%-20% of the *utopian ideal* functionality?

If the first, then I most strongly *disagree*. If the...

Database *administration* as a profession is a *stupid* idea. It came about because databases never emerged from Phase 2 of the design process.

(Phase 1 - make it work *at all*,...

Look, you're beating a dead horse about SP3. You've said there are no bugs for SP3 to fix, so why should MS go to the effort? Service packs are expensive...

You would have to be insane to contemplate storing biometric data, especially en masse. While only in its infancy biometric data is the holy grail of identity theft. It can't...