Decent article! Some good reading on this also at http://www.replicationanswers.com/TransactionalOptimisation.asp

Matt, wellness plans are an interesting example, and one that bothers me more. Retention (or firing) is part of what a company does to succeed, I can see the need...

The idea isn't all bad. Technology aside, just figuring out real patterns that lead to losing employees and training the managers to see them would be useful. It gets complicated...

I didnt know, had to guess - wrongly!

Wayne, I had not heard of sweet tea brining, have to admit it intrigues me! Whether it would be good seems like it would depend on how sweet it was,...

Jessica, I hope you enjoyed the discussion all the more after commenting! Thanks for reading and commenting.

All - thanks for your thoughts. I continue to try to sort through this...

tresiqus, we'll have to have a longer conversation on this one day!

logitestus, I can see food poisoning being something you'd remember. A company just around the corner from me just had a holiday party catered in, 50+ sick, 20 of them...

Goofguy, that's right up there with burning popcorn!

tresiqus, I'll go along that no all ideas fit everywhere, whether they are from a magazine or a consultant, but equally I'd argue...

I'm sorry Miguel!

You might look at what Aaron did for the same problem: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_bertrand/archive/2010/12/29/a-more-reliable-and-more-flexible-sp-msforeachdb.aspx.

Can you post the query you used?

I've used a similar approach going back 10 years or so. It's worked well, and it's abstracted from changes to the mail system in SQL. I ran multiple jobs, in...

I've used them for years anytime I was accessing an object outside the database. That makes it very easy to find/handle dependencies when the db gets moved.

Gary, that's funny, because I DID bring donuts every Friday. Food is always a good way to get people to drop by. Less important long term but critical at the...