I'm not sure there is a "best way".

Apart from ensuring that you have the correct level of security on your DB.

For example, you have an app (or more than 1...

Terri,

Got any vacancies?

actually very happy where I work, poor money, but in walking distance of home... And an unstressed environment...

I have never been asked to supply proof of my degrees to anybody.

The only people who have asked for evidence of any qualifications were the Civil Service, who simply wanted...

Yup, its not what you know,

or who you know, or what you know about who you know.

It's what you know about yourself.. I was unemployed for several years, despite...

Umm. First degree was in Biochemistry at a very top university.. Many many years ago.

Enjoyed the maths, loved the quantum mechanics, enthralled by thermodynamics, and was allowed serious...

Nolock - depends on your db. But can be useful, if you are careful to only use it on SELECts.

Where you don't need absolute acuracy. For example, reporting...

Absolutely... Us devs need SQL. And need to be flawless in it. And aware of any potential impact. I'd respectivally submit that nocount be set to on, and...

Whoa. Damn right Matty. I've been a DBA and tried to advise my developers. I am a developer right now and currently fight my orgs dbas. Who...

The point is that any tool that enhances productivity and promotes easily understandable code is the way forward.

CLR integration gives us programmers a very useful tool. Sure, if you...

Point is that those precious DBA's are going to have to shift to the real world sometime soon..

I'm a DBA and a Developer... Accent on Developer.. 34 years experience...

OK, fair one..

In the real world though it's too much to ask that Idisosable is called every time....

Humans make errors (and I'm culpable too)

So, to take an example, you've...

Well, the compelling reason for me (and the only time I've felt it necessary) was to do conversions from datetime differences to a human readable form in days,hours minutes.

I could...

Hey, just done a search.

Rogue has an entry in Wikipaedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(computer_game)

Or just search wikipedia for rogue computer game... looks like all necessary links are there...

Urmmm.. Don't know the url off the top of my head, but I do know it was available for download off the web. I think it evolved...

Ummm...

For me it still is Rogue. Guess it's more than 20 yrs old, have to play in a DOS window, but I just like it. And no,...