sometime last year in one of the linkedin groups i'm there was a huge religious battle between GUID PK supporters and the rest of us. after a while people got tired of it because the GUID side liked GUID's just because

MS is guilty of some of this stuff as well. this year we set up perfmon to run and collect data from numerous servers and log to a database. the schema is horrendous and i had to do a lot of casting and converting to be able to read the data