Awesome article. There are not nearly enough resources focusing on code efficiency and even fewer on making code legible in my opinion, and this one was well written and...

Congratulations, Steve. It is well deserved.

I concur with Steve's wish that they would release a version for Linux, but I don't see that happening. Until then, if you do not wish to use virtualization,...

I think the biggest issue is the IT culture in general. I come from a military background, and there was tremendous emphasis on developing your subordinates for 3 reasons:

1....

Excellent article, thank you for posting it.

Max (12/20/2007)

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Hi,

I apologize if it's a duplicate thread. I did a search but couldn't find the answer.

I have a typical ETL process. I'd like to have SSIS wait for my...

kipp (12/19/2007)

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This helps, but the next step is I am needing to find the tables that have two columns in the table.

ie.

I am trying to find all tables that have...

Can you add a primary key of some sort that keeps them in the order you want, such as an identity column? That would make it easier to then...

Ray M

I have a problem with this when using nvarchar, my string is more than 4000 charachters and it gives me an error. Do i need to use only nvarchar...

I have absolutely no experience with agile development as such, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt.

It sounds like you should by and large be able...

The article was well done, but it could use some expansion. For instance, it might be worth discussing why you would want to allow SQL Server Authentication for one...

There are a lot of possibilities. The most likely one is that the report is being blocked by some other process. If this is the case, then you...

Its not absolutely unfounded, but depending on your environment it...

This is an excellent article with the author's notes, though the line warning about only using it where a dirty read is acceptable cannot be overemphasized. I have a...

Thank you all for the advice. I'll replaced the nonclustered index with a clustered index and put the heavily queried column first.