To all those kind people with opinions about upgrading, I wonder what your thoughts are for people still on 2005? We want to upgrade but are uncertain which version...

This is the best article on APPLY that I've read. I particularly appreciate the paragraph: "APPLY calls the function once for each row from the input. ...to produce the...

I want to weigh in on the jargon discussion.

I don't think I've heard the term "bridge" table before, and yet without even reading the article, I knew instantly what the...

So well written and explained. Thanks for taking the time to share this with us.

We keep backups for Monday through Friday, cycling through. Logs are done approximately every 2 hours during business hours.

But while our databases are important, they are relatively small. ...

Living in Oregon, USA, getting to Seattle is "sellable" to my agency. Locations in other parts of the country generally are not.

That said, I think it would be fair...

What great timing for this article!

I'm just finishing up the design for an application that involves a "call module". This module is a place for users to record various...

sreid08: Interesting article that adds greatly to the discussion. Thanks for posting it.

What a well written, thoughtful, and (to me) eye opening editorial. The first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging it. Your editorial has sparked a wonderful conversation...

I just read an article that provides some perspective on the "test". Here are some quotes:

"If the test sounds flawed, that’s not just because one shouldn’t use spinning dancers...

I was very interested in the part of peter's post that talks about right and left brain. For those who are interested, I found this website that has the...

A few days ago, I had to do what seemed to me to be a fairly complicated cross tab report. I remembered, "Hey, there was some article that Jeff...

Thank you for sharing your utility, taking the time to explain how it works, and going over the strengths and weaknesses. As you replied to a previous poster, your...

Excellent point majorbloodnock. Thank you for your post.

Sorry you had to go through something like that. Despite knowing ahead of time what you would do, I imagine it...

My first reaction on reading this editorial was to flashback to a recent interaction I had with a co-worker, DBA and creator of our agency's fiscal system. Me: "Does...