Happy Birthday Steve! My birthday was Monday (44, although Wii Fit says I'm only 29!). I had a hard time coming up with a wish list. I...

We just did our last upgrade from 2000 to 2005 this week (seriously). Maybe we can skip 2008 and wait for 2011? It was an 18-24 month process...

I have a mixed marriage: I manage a SQL Server team and my husband manages an Oracle team.

We have agreed to disagree...for the children's sake.

p.s. the new...

I was discussing development vs. production database access with one of our developers today.  Currently, the developers have full access to their development database and zero access to production.  All...

This is the first time I haven't gone kicking and screaming into a new Windows OS.  If technology did not change so rapidly, half of us would probably be out...

Working for the government, I have great benefits such as paid holidays, vacation, sick leave, health insurance and retirement (sure I have no choice in paying into it).  But what I...

How would you design a database and/or application differently to make it more SOA friendly?

I had a newbie programmer that loved T-SQL.  He would write long, complex stored procs and do things in T-SQL that I would never consider doing (being a big fan...

As a developer, I was pretty exicted with the version of SQL Server that allowed me to create an 8000 byte field instead of using a text field. Little...

I like the trick of putting the commas before the field name. Looked weird at first glance, but made perfect sense when explained. I will pass this article...