Regarding the "stealing" ideas part.

If the person in question is building a business around a particular way of doing things then I could understand why they wouldn't want to share....

Wasn't this problem solved by docking stations? Take the computer with you when you want, leave it plugged into the desk when you don't? Seems like there...

Before you went through all of the rigmarole of creating a stored procedure that constructed dynamic sql, did you try a combination of adding "WITH RECOMPILE" or using OPTION(OPTIMIZE FOR...

Steve,

The testing issue is the same whether you are installing a service pack or a CU with the primary difference being the interval between updates.

An example for...

As far as our organization is concerned we really don't care whether they issue service packs or not. A year or more is way too long to wait for...

Paging under SQL 05 / 08 really isn't too complicated. Yes, it could be a whole lot better like the mysql limit x,y command. Here's an example:

-- Set...