• I am feeling very charitable toward SQL Server right now. It's a great product!

    Yesterday, I had to assist another developer in writing queries for MS Access, interpreting its useless error messages, figuring out that "statement must be updateable query" meant that it didn't allow any subqueries in an update statement, and, to top it all off, practicing the black magic of placing enough parentheses in the FROM clause so it wouldn't scream syntax error.

    When you think about how bad it could be... SQL Server is a great product!