Hey Anthony, how's it going? 

Anyway, Leo's main argument (although he lacks the understanding necessary to frame it so plainly) is basically as follows: "The current SQL products don't deliver...

maddogs, that post was not specifically directed at you.

Date's "Incoherence principle" kicks in here and your arguments have all been thouroughly refuted already, so I'm not going to bother again.

Have fun in your theory-free fantasyland.

Ahh, so of course your MUCK table would have the kind of surrogate keys I describe in the article.  And of course you are fully aware of the problems that...

"I need to be close to 100% sure that the entries will NOT change once they have been entered, almost to the point that someone could say it might be...

I think your view is the simplistic (and cynical) one.  It is unfortunately also the prevailing view of sub-standard performers who like to blame everything except themselves for their own...

Thanks for making my argument.  You are willing to cut corners for the sake of saving time creating tables, but are you then coding your application so situations like the...

BTW Ivan, I did not mean to sound as if I was personally taking you to task. 

One more comment about your post though.  You state that the practice leads to...

Thanks, I think...

Here's a long winded reply.

"The art of mixing and matching codes into a sole container makes it easier for programmers to code..."

NO!, that's the point, it doesn't make...

Having been on both sides of this fence I think Steve did a pretty good job of summing up the issues that managers face.  A manager that has an exceptional team...

There shouldn't be any issues that are related to the 64bit platform since IIS doesn't "know" that it's talking to a 64bit machine, it just connects to SQL Server.

Are both nodes (servers) in the possible owners for the SQL services?

I would speak to the vendor(s) of the hardware and software you are recommending.  They have a vested interest in helping you out with this sort of thing.  Almost every...

Estimating the size of a database is relatively straight forward--but tedious--process.  Basically you figure out the size of each table (and indexed view) and add them up.  Books Online has...

If someone is in your database with the ability to run TRUNCATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE you have a HUGE security hole, and a few missing rows in a table...