Gee, that pretty much adds up to a consensus, which leads me to 2 observations.

One is that, unfortunately, we live in a world where we must question the activities and...

Publicly owned companies in the US are subject to Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. One might reasonably argue that this information could have a financial impact on the company (as described by SOX)...

From what I remember of Normal Form, design constraints like primary keys are not related to how many rows the table contains. Either their is a unique way to identify...

From a design perspective, I think that Messrs. Codd and Date would have something to say about the need for a primary key. Primary keys need have nothing to do...

Does that 20 hours per week include on-call hours? I've been on call, generally 2 weeks out of 4, on various platforms and for various languages, since 1992. I'd like...

Personally, I've gotten better at writing the response and then throwing it away. As noted earlier, this type of 'therapy' can be great for either calming one down or helping...

We always used bitbucket with a slightly different meaning. It was usually in reference to some important piece of data, now lost and not retrievable, having gone to 'the great...

For of few of the lesser known acronyms...

FUBAR Fouled Up Beyond All Repair (substitute more colorful term for Fouled up as required)

AFAIK (I think this is what Steve intended) As...

I'd say that Harald makes some extremely valid points. There needs to be separation between design (WHAT) and implementation (HOW) decisions. And I think the original article demonstrates just that....

For any company with more than 0 employees, there is no excuse for not having a policy, not communicating said policy, and not exercising penalties described in said policy, fairly...

I still have a 20+ year old poster in my office entitled "5 Rules Of Data Normalization". Granted, depending on whose opinion you consult, there are quite a few more...

I, too, have made use of Sysinternals BSOD screen saver, with varying results.

I discovered that network folks can be less than appreciative of the screensaver being put on a production...

That is pretty much what I had when I replied to why I was using sp_executesql. Not only is it simpler, since the calls are strictly internal and post-data security...

I've excerpted the code I was trying to use with sp_executesql. And I hate to say that I'm not positive what changed fixed it, but it returns data now and...

Well, there are all the general reasons regarding security, because it is dynamic code. Reuse of execution plan doesn't enter into this because successive calls will access a different stored...