Jeff Moden (8/12/2009)

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If you want to reduce this conversation to a "game of egos ... rather than a genuine knowledge exchange" simply by saying so, then you're doing the same...

Tim Walker (8/13/2009)

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Practical steps that are...

Practical steps that are easy to...

Steve Jones - Editor (8/12/2009)

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steve_melchert (8/12/2009)

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In this economy we are running lean, and there is not time for such niceties. These folks need leadership, and they need it in...

Thanks for you comments Jeff. I'm clear that you're robust in this area of personal responsibility for writings 😎 (you probably don't like these emoticons either but heh...)

Jeff Moden (8/12/2009)

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The...

Ashton-Tate (!) - Did you type this into the site directly or use DisplayWrite on...

Steve Jones - Editor (8/12/2009)

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The disclaimer is another idea that we can look at. I'm not sure quite how to word it, and my guess is that we'll have plenty...

Jeff Moden (8/12/2009)

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I didn't see much of either in that article. I can understand why people...

As I mentioned in the previous thread I think the key point is to be clear what the status of any given article is in broad terms - opinion, editorial,...

Consider this as print media with a circulation in excess of 1,000,000.

I don't think anybody who might wish to do so would just be allowed write a front page article...

steve_melchert (8/10/2009)

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I've seen a lot of good debate today. The problem here, it seems, is the rating system. The displayed number of stars is viewed as authoritative,...

Lynn Pettis (8/10/2009)

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oli (8/10/2009)

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Paul White (8/10/2009)

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I deeply begrudge the minimum one star.

Gail's first post expresses it best, and in milder language terms than I might have used. I would...

I thought this article by Alok Dwivedi gave a good explaination of how long schema changes are likely to take to action on big tables:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Design+and+Theory/67553/

Tim

You've clearly got some political isues to consider there...

The point the other posters and I were all trying to make are:

(1) Have confidence, you are right

(2) Don't land yourself in...

This is NOT a technical issue! Lowell gives you a way to identify this culpit.

A database is either LIVE (in which case it needs a resilient backup strategy) or not....