Hear, hear, James!  Having to explain why you want a wrist pad for your keyboard or monitor risers so you don't strain your neck ("Why didn't you need this before?" they...

I am also a beginner at this, so someone correct me if I'm wrong, but here's what I've gotten from the articles I've read.

Once you've determined where all your source...

Cathy,

There are a couple of things you should note about Paul's comment.  First, he suggests using a combo primary key for your OrderDetails table which you said you wanted to...

Steve,

I completely agree with the giving out people's names thing.  It's just funny that I don't have any to give out even if I wanted to. @=)

As far as the...

I keep getting calls from recruiters wanting to know "how are things going", putting feelers out for whether or not I want to jump ship.  Then when I return their...

Sugesh,

Thanks, but I already knew about the System Process IDs. 

My concern was why system processes were suspended.  And my philosophy is "Better to know now when it's NOT a...

William,

A lot of people don't use FKs in their databases.  They stick IDs from other tables in their tables (which isn't quite the same thing) and then rely on the...

Wow.  I didn't come up with that entry at all on my search.

Thanks, Steve.  I appreciate your help with that.

AH!  That makes sense.

Don't know why anyone would do that, though, considering that until SQL 2005 you couldn't order by column aliases.

Well, maybe other people could, but I kept getting...

I use table aliases in my queries all the time.  All of us at my office do.  I don't recall that we had that warning in the UA when we...

It might if you're being inconsistant.  Such as prefixing with the table name in the WHERE clause if you're using table aliases in the SELECT statement.

And it's only made worse for those who are trustworthy when the few "rotten apples" get their escapades published nationwide.  I've read at least 5 stories in the past 3 months...

Here's a thought.

Orders table contains the summary version of the order.

OrderLines table contains the individual detail lines of the order including an FK to OrderID.  That way you can have...

We use method two.  Since it is possible for one tables ID field to be used in more than one other table, method two makes it easier for us to...

Sorry, I should have mentioned that my last comment was for Steve.  It seems odd to me that the Upgrade Advisor wouldn't work if you didn't have Windows Admin permissions.

Has...