Another thing that becomes important is efficient querying. Time spent on Query Tuning might be a good investment.

Will-

The links from the online version are working. It is just the ones in the daily e-mail that are wrong.

Scott

One of the goals that I have is to learn enough about CLR so that I can prevent developers from introducing it unless there is a justifiable reason to use...

Jim - I'm with you most of the way.

But first come / first serve is a capitalistic option. While it doesn't necessarily maximize profits for the World...

The naming convention is whatever you choose it to be.

However, it is only a convention if everyone on the development team is following it. (Therefore, there is no convention...

One vote for capitalism.

I may have to use that 'malicious attack' theory next time I have to explain a problem.

Scott

I heard a little bit about the ticket issues yesterday on my drive home.

As far as I know, no priority ticket purchases were offered to anyone. That...

Any reason you can't move to a hosting service that offers SQL Server? There's a big ad on the http://www.asp.net forums right now.

Scott

I have a BS in Computer Science. It was long enough ago that it consisted of Pascal, C and even one horrible class in Fortran.

Along the way I have...

Steve - if it was up to me, I would wait for 2008. I have been overruled!

Scott

Didn't I just read that the majority of all SS installs are using 2000? If so, then you are not behind at all.

We are planning the move to 2005...

There are two reasons that I check out SSC each day.

The first is my daily routine of looking through the newsletter. I check out the articles and...

I have done data entry, covered phones during a night shift in a 24/7 operations center, even stuffed envelopes. I have no problem doing any of those things. ...

I don't get to too many conferences, presentations, etc.  I basically have to beg my company to go to one. 

The last one that I attended was the release for SQL...