THere's two ways of looking at that. You can do a 30 day cycle to get it to QA and then the prod deployment happens whenever they're ready. Another is...

You are correct in an ideal world. Professionals always step up to the plate. That word is a big assumption and when you may culture shifts like this, you may...

Thanks for all the comments. Extreme is just another variant of Agile. A great website that shows all the variants is http://www.xp123.com.

Wow, learn something new everyday. Great article.

Kathi, good article. I love this tool and it's price tag especially . The setup though was a bit of a challenge and maintainability...

Great article Grant. along the same lines as migration, I'm curious if anyone has tried VersionStar yet (http://www.versionstar.com/) Again, not an advert but I'm trying to see if I...

Hi, Developer Edition will contain all the Enterprise Edition features, just not licensed for prod. So, yes, it will contain the works.

Good question on Personal Edition. I haven't heard...

I saw it initially in an interview with Tom Rizzo. Also, the beta version that's being distributed today is the Developer Edition.

Hi Greg, there will still be a dirt cheap developer edition just like SQL Server 2000's model is today.

That's exactly the idea. When I was still learning to be a DBA I hated reading a chapter in a book just to find out how to do a basic...

I agree, it seems that the added DTS functionality far by makes up for the shortcomings in the performance in this early beta. Even though the design environment seems a...

I started to work with those last week in depth and they too seem sluggish on the same server (dual proc). I'm reminded though by MS that most perf fixes...

Darn notepad! Yes, you caught me rushing to go to bed after a long day

THe pretty interface you're referring to can be accessed at http://reportservername/reports. What are you viewing the report in that causes an authentication error?

Good article Steve. I disagree with the statement that MSDE and now SQL Express is not a production system. I always classified MSDE as a big version of Access. I...