There is a huge advantage in pulling the tekkies out of IT and having them learn part of the business.

In another life and century I worked for a major motor...

I have a black SQLServerCentral polo that I won on a post a couple of years ago. But I sure would like to have a SQLServerCentral Hawaiian shirt to add...

Interesting post and point of view.

I am not sure that an OOP approach is necessary to see the relationships that exist in SQL server. Or perhaps more accurately, I...

I have to side with Vliet. I have worked in both worlds at the same time. I have had .Net programmers bring me SQL code that consisted of cursors because...

If you with to do longer term analysis, save the results so that you can measure deltas. Also remember that restarting the instance resets the counters to 0.

While every testing method negatively affects the performance of the thing being tested by making the tester part of the experiment, some are obviously worse than others. I'd be interested...

Given the confusion and the obvious discrepancy with BOL, everyone who answered, right or wrong, should get a point unless there is a valid, document-able explanation.

Excellent post, both for the concise definitions and the code explanations.

For the Poisson distributions consider the use of a CLR. That my eliminate the side-effects issue.

The repetition is a good idea but really depends on the audience. In high school Honors Calculus we has one basic proof show up on EVERY weekly quiz until everyone...

Jeff Moden makes a good point. All too frequently the engineering part has been left out. If more software people thought like traditional engineering they would implement better solutions in...

Hugo, I think what you qualified as a rant is rather a pretty descriptive picture of what happens in real life. I certainly don't see it as a rant.

As it...

I DO/WILL NOT Facebook, so no problem in that respect. Too many security holes for my taste.

But like others, I wonder what the company response would be. Most states are...

One thing you noted was talking to a coworker about something not related to what you are working on. That has 2 additional benefits. First, it may well teach you...

Spot-on, Grant, as usual. Working with earlier versions of SQL and VSS was a true pain...until VSS saved your a$$ because you could bring back a prior version.

Now with the...

Good idea. If you count all the posters except Jeff you are up to 10 cents:-D