There's a team at work that takes the "all hands on deck" approach for nearly everything.  It consumes lots of time and things get done very slowly.  I prefer a...

For release scripts with new objects, I test for existence and drop, then create.  For anything that already exists, I use alter.  It allows me to run the release script...

Okay Thom, if the load process drops and rebuilds tables when you fire your BULK INSERT, how about doing an ALTER TABLE to add the persisted computed column after you...