In my opinion, that is an oxymoron. Excellent developers document well. The definition for "document well"...

..which does not necessarily faster delivery 😉

Depending on configuration, doesn't SQL Server allocate its memory on start up? If so then it is only the processor usage that could have any affect. Isn't that also configurable...

Jeff Moden (9/16/2014)

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I'm curious... what kind of system did you run this on and what...

Yet Another DBA (9/16/2014)

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...Same developers who then want a report done via a stored procedure/view and then want tsql to format the data, and I do mean string manipulation that...

Yet Another DBA (9/16/2014)

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courtney.smith (9/16/2014)

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It's not really a case of when business rules can't be done in the database it's a case of that its a pretty bad practice to...

Allegedly, the ForEach-Object cmdlet processes each item in turn as it is passed through the pipeline whereas foreach generates the whole collection first. So the following might help alleviate memory...

Whenever I have come across the need for auditing then the preference by the business was against a home spun solution and for the deployment of a third party system...

Yet Another DBA (9/16/2014)

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It will always be an ongoing battle.

Ask a developer to use a dll, RESTful service ... Fine no worries.

Ask a developer to use a stored procedure...

Great list as a guide. Would have preferred it will a little less of an Olde English flavour 😉

I am a developer and I prefer Stored Procedures over ORMs every day of the week.

It is possibly because the developers who tout ORMs, in my experience, defer all issues...

StarNamer (12/8/2008)

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With regard to smoking, I beleive there are 3 groups:

Non-smokers: Either never smoked or tried it and didn't like it so never got the habit.

Smokers: Currently smoke.

Ex-smokers: Used to...

I'd put my money on the...

I've had a brief look but without the code behind I cannot see anything obvious. Unsurprising really as if it was obvious then I am sure that one of your...

Hey Rod. Good luck chap. Steve is right in everything that he has said in my experience.

As for the feedback, there are two sets of people you usually have to...