Not sure it would discourage competition. One part of that is no one quite knows the rules! The other part is that there is a fairly large chunk of MVP's...

I'd be interested to hear comments from the MVP's on my suggestions for change posted above?

MVP has been a huge success for MS and I'm not sure there's any reason for them to change any part of the program from their perspective.

From my perspective I...

I tend to agree with Andy L. I surveyed a group of 10 developers recently and only 3 worked at a company with a DBA. Lots of developers/network dudes get...

I think we all tend to be a little guilty of thinking we're the only ones that can do the work, and that all work has to be done right...

I'll rate this as one of your better posts. Sharing an epiphany is worth doing. How about going back and looking at other "features" to see if you see hidden...

That works let you let RS execute the query, but you can't just pass it to the proc that way, sees it as one big string, not discrete values. It's...

Agree with John about bite sized. The part about not forgetting/losing work is a big one for me, few things irritate me more than to check on work I've asked...

I worry that we're going to tip over in some weird way. You've got kids with very little real experience making $75-100k right out of high school/college. No doubt some...

I have to agree, not sure I like data readers are evil. I like to think I get the hazards that are out there, but businesses have to do business....

Resist the dark side Grant!

We all should want data access to be easy, or at least straight forward. Somehow we gotta get knowledgeabout people that aren't zealots from both sides...

Grant, my two cents without having fully delved in is that there are two categories, those that generate static SQL that we can look at, and those that don't (LINQ...

Samuel, thats interesting. From a DBA perspective thats almost as good as stored procs. We can see the changes, tweak the data access, and to increase security the XML doc...

Grant, I disagree that removing a tier saves time. Tiers are there for a reason! But we can agree to disagree. Bob, good for you for spanking Steve on the...

Jack, good to see something written by you on SSC!