One thing I don't believe has been mentioned:

There are databases I have worked on where the vendor designed the tables so that a column in table B had a different...

Iwas Bornready (4/7/2016)

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OK clearly using a bunch of numbers makes little sense. But you can go overboard the other direction too. I think our column names are sometimes too long...

J DBA (4/7/2016)

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TMiller 21949 (4/7/2016)

Not just Colorado.... Cape Coral, FL... although there are exceptions, streets that can get you from Point-A to Point-B (lots of streets cannot do that -...

"Either the people in charge of naming weren't creative, or they were very, very lazy"

Well I don't know if that is fair. Without knowing why they used the names...

ZZartin (3/25/2016)

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djackson 22568 (3/25/2016)

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ZZartin (3/25/2016)

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Hmm... a good password on the sa account should sufficient, I wouldn't want to disable it in the event it's actually needed. And I certainly...

ZZartin (3/25/2016)

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Hmm... a good password on the sa account should sufficient, I wouldn't want to disable it in the event it's actually needed. And I certainly wouldn't want to...

Our SQL Server installs are all for software we have purchased from vendors. Where we can control the passwords we do. At one point some vendors required a...

Professionally, I am on time more than 95% of the time. The exceptions are almost always beyond my control - back to back meetings that go over for example....

Gary Varga (3/17/2016)

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umailedit (3/16/2016)

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I don't think so. Since the code is publicly scrutinized any such code will be found out pretty quickly.

For those...

Ivanova (3/15/2016)

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Back to the original topic: coincidentally I decided to finally bite the bullet and upgrade my home laptop last weekend. I've had Win 10 on my work machine for...

Gary Varga (3/15/2016)

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GeorgeCopeland (3/15/2016)

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If there is any animosity on my part, it is because Microsoft helped me to raise a family and pay my mortgage. They have done more to...

umailedit (3/15/2016)

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GeorgeCopeland (3/15/2016)

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You pay for free services like cloud storage with your usage data. In aggregate this is easy to monetize and I am glad to give it. I trust...

GeorgeCopeland (3/15/2016)

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djackson, I seriously do not agree with you. 1) Microsoft has a place in the enterprise. There is no question about that. 2) I have done a ton of...

However I also wonder what the business model is. Are there that many people who want to, or would, run SQL Server that don't want a Windows OS? I know...

roger.plowman (3/15/2016)

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djackson 22568 (3/14/2016)

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umailedit (3/14/2016)

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Is anyone here worried about windows 10 spying on you? It sends stuff to microsoft even after you turn off all the spy options.

I use...