This kind of system has been in use for a while now.  It is called Micro Lending or Micro Credit.  Ventures like this are being tried in Mexico and Africa...

This article really hit home for me.  My wife and I both work in IT and we are lucky enough to have stable, decent paying jobs here in Tampa.  The problem...

As soon as I read this article I wanted to reply with the long list of criticisims as to why the generic lookup table approach is a really bad idea. ...

If your data access layer is built on the .NET technologies you can load the XML file into a strongly typed dataset, then load your other data in from your...

Whatever you do, do NOT put 5 disks in the system without RAID.  Your chances of failure increase substantially.  In the setup that you suggest, if one disk fails you...

I have run across a similar problem when asked to query our database of Seminar information for all clients that have had seminars in certain areas. 

It was solved by purachasing...

I cant believe that you are comparing T-SQL to COBOL and attempting to draw a valid conclusion.  The very fact that you would compare two such tools leads me to...

Very Easy:

create proc foo

set nocount on

insert into test (vchrdesc) values ('testing')

SET NOCOUNT OFF

RETURN @@IDENTITY

From what I can tell, this is a perfect use for a cursor. Considering that this process runs at night and you have a limited result set, you will...

While the content of the article was useful, I must offer some well intended criticisim. I am not sure if english is your second language, or if you intended...