I don't disagree about delete, but what any site/magazine should aspire is that most of their content is relevant to the target audience, in a way that they see as...

Hey richlion2,

I hear you. The vast majority of articles on SSC are technical, or closely related, and I think that's appropriate. The editorial space is different, but not without limits....

David - thanks for that. Trying to make every day count!

Thanks Bunny! And welcome to SSC:-)

Gary, I'm with you on understanding where they did the best they could. Sometimes it helps me do better, sometimes it helps me understand that I don't have to do...

lshanahan, I wonder if it isn't that the fathers don't tell the stories as much?

I don't spend much time worrying about people in wrong groups other than any granted sysadmin or similar. If the company has groups set up so that managing them can...

TDE does reduce compression, but it's often a requirement to have it on - don't optimize yourself into an insecure configuration.

I don't argue that its possible, just hard. Hard if they aren't already doing it, hard if they aren't 100% vested in it. I have a simple quiz to gauge...

Roger, it's not that I don't personally trust the devs, but in the real world of PCI and security breaches it's not logical or sane to NOT limit who can...

Orlando, it's far from comical, though it does often have to do with trust and fear. We're the guardians. Sometimes we take that role too far, sometimes not far enough....

Orlando, your last question seems backwards - why wouldn't we want to be able to script out/modify individual objects? Isn't that a strength? I think about 'real' code deployed on...

Steve, I wonder if calling it a design mistake is correct, or fair. It's a different product with a different purpose. I like the ability to make small changes (via...

Tom, thats a reasonable guess (and an idea for another question!)

Sean, I thought adding that and maybe should have, or changing the question to say that person wasn't available (and was obviously a slacker for not taking care of business...