Really enjoyed the article. I thought it gave some good ideas, particularly for application developers, who often understand the basics of database design, but do not usually have enough experience...

Know Thy Contracting Agency.

I've been contracting for 10 years and in my time I've come across all types. Some good, some bad, the worst (from a contractors point of view)...

I'm a contractor and have come against this sort of situation. The way I deal with it, is that I offer the benefit of my experience, and if they take...

Our users required something similar but we couldn't find a way to do it. The solution we used was to present the user with a series of combo boxes with column...

We don't use SourceSafe, but a product called Harvest. We store the report RDL file (and associated stored procedures).

For deployment I have written a small utility which deploys a collection...

To Sort Data (from help screens):

To add sorting to a group in a table

1. In Layout view, click the table so that column and row handles appear above and...