What's interesting is how these misguided policies actually encourage bad SQL programming practices.

Hey, boss-man, when...

Typical programming books like "Database Programming with C#" may cover data modeling to come extent, but it's more of an afterthought and rather sparse.

Ralph Kimball has some excellent...

Perhaps the best way to proliferate a process is to make tools for the process ubiquitous. There is a rudimentary Database Diagram tool in SSMS, but it hasn't changed in...

I do believe that predictive analytics (non domain specific) can be leveraged to improve the optimization of databases and data storage systems, and do some extent that's been around for...

JavaScript and LINQ are just window dressing for SQL, just like in the construction industry stucco is dressing for (not a replacement for) solid brick.

The expected answer would be similar to the following, although any equivalent and simple set based solution would suffice.

SELECT CustomerID
  , COUNT(*) AS ContactCount

The following is not really a database design question, but more of a baseline SQL query question. It's simple enough that a core SQL developer could easily rattle off the...

Hell, even today there is no broad consensus on when exactly we should start dancing in the streets to celebrate the arrival of the Age Of Aquarius. Some New Age...

So, how to establish a timeline for when data corruption first occurred?

Off the top of my head, the first place I'd look would be error logs, both...