Hopefully you won't need to use it in a few weeks!

This is embarassing. I convinced the IS guys at my work that we needed to make a migration plan...

Followup question for tomorrow:

"Should you install SP4 on your production servers that use AWE?"

There are always reasons to code something up yourself. Perhaps whatever is available doesn't have quite the right features. Or perhaps you want to learn how to do...

... And you can practice your poker for the casino party using this table of weighted poker hands...

http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/amachanic/archive/2005/05/18/14852.aspx

Peter,

You can insert a NULL row even if there's a foreign key:

use tempdb

go

create table a (aid int not null primary key)

insert a values (1)

go

create table b (aid int references a...

I would think the former would cause problems as QA found bugs -- the developers would be in another cycle and would therefore not have time to fix the bugs...

Where does QA fit into this schedule?

Also, here's a book I've had on my Amazon wishlist for quite a while, on Agile Database Techniques... Looks interesting:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471202835/ref=ase_ambysoftinc/104-8467509-7877506?v=glance&s=books

As soon as you re-write a query they've written so that it runs in two seconds instead of three hours, getting the respect is no problem

Little guys??? Chief of the most popular SQL Server website is not a little guy

I think "data elements" would have been better wording than "data objects".

In my experince the bad situations occur when you're "just another employee" -- i.e. not an "individual" in management's mind at all. Rather, you're nothing but a job description...

Yelena,

Time to upgrade, I think! Beta 2 was released around 10 months ago. Switch to the latest CTP so you can see all of the newer features.

True business logic has only one place, and that's the database. Databases are designed to be shared amongst applications across an enterprise, and to be the final arbiter of...

David:

I hope with number 5 you meant "being valued as an individual, not just an employee?"

I just want to clarify, in case I gave the wrong impression: The H1B people are only "slaves" because they're afraid that if they lose their job they won't...