So here is a couple of questions.

Let's say that there is a tool that lets you:

Log into a SQL server.

Update the description extended properties on your tables and columns.

Lets you...

Great article Adam.

Which was exactly...

First I think that the intent, target, and scope are great. Yes, there is room for revision.

Nice effort, Ron. Everybody gets the blowtorch to the backside for everything...

Please take into consideration those of us with chronic sinus conditions. I remember as an operator being seated in front of the console and having a large attack. ...

Here is a point that is...

Points made by Thomas-282729 and others are valid for consideration. You have to apply all of these through a filter of sense. The other point that was...

Wonderful article. Good job. A couple of points though.

For the online kind of storage you are right, and right on the mark. Still the "disk is cheep"...

dforck (12/31/2010)

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I find it amusing that he bothered to mention using char instead of varchar, but never mentioned that using nvarchar, or nchar, effectively doubles how much space is being...

jcrawf02 (12/28/2010)

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I know we all know we're computer geeks, but c'mon, this is just harsh:

maybe somewhere there's ONE of us who...

A friend of mine had 5 in the house and 32 in the yards. He also had chickens, geese, a swan, and pot bellied pigs. We started calling...

"I'm Steve Jones ... and this is a cat!" ROFLMAO! I have one now but had two for quite a while. They will make one laugh when...

Thanks Wayne. I missed it.

Running a query across multiple servers in a group.

Filtered Indexes. Makes up for a crappy design that I inheirited and can't (yet) rewrite.

Intellisense. I plan on adding the...

Here is how to drop the time from a date/time. I use GetDate() in the example but you can use a column just as well.

SELECT DATEADD(DAY, 0, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0,...