At the end of the day if the app fulfills the business need then it is mission accomplished whether it was written in VB3, 4, 5, 6 or JFDI.NET.

Yes migrating...

I fully understand your point but from my limited experience with .NET the stories of M$ investing more in .NET than NASA did in the moon shot are entirely believable.

It...

Basically, it is a memory hog. If you have less than 1GB forget it.

Also, in the Tools/Options make sure that under the General tab you select "Open Empty Environment"...

The big thing with .NET is the framework of 7,000+ functions.

There are a lot of things that .NET does with very little effort that required an good knowledge of the...

I 2nd the "work in small teams" part.

It also helps gain a bigger picture of the project so you don't go down a blind alley.

When I develop I...

The way I would approach this would be to have a user defined table function that splits out your country string and returns a table.

Your query would then become

SELECT *...

The RedGate software site has an article by "Phil Factor" lamenting the fact that you have to leave your techy past behind you to get into the higher echelons of...

numeric fields can hold values to 2*10^+-38 where as integers are 2*10^+-31 so if you need more than 4 billion values then numeric fields offer a solution.

Storage size for Numerics...

As a DBA my main concern is with apps developers who code things up with the assumption that they will have access to the SA password or similarly excessive access...

If stress makes you crack then you are damaged for life.

You can x-ray broken bones, examine stitches and wounds, but there is no empirical measure for a broken mind.

It...

My apologies for "Simplicity Stake". Guess who wrote the article late at night on using a cheap keyboard?

Back in the days of SQL 6.5 Enterprise Manager was known as Enterprise Mangler.

Personally I prefer to use T-SQL Scripts because I can save them and re-use them without...

SELECT DISTINCT will produce 1 record for every occurrence of the items in the SELECT list.

In the first example if you have two shared ID values then only one will...

Apart from VB and SQL are there any other current computer languages that are not case sensitive by default?

So you are trying to extract the date from a filename and use that as the sorting key.

Where a date cannot be found you are just going to sort by...