One more endorsement for Solid Quality Learning. We've had Itzik Ben Gan teach his course where we work four times and he's on his way in for a fifth. It...

Excellent. I'll get it plugged in as soon as I can.

That's excellent. I've really enjoyed using your program and I missed it terribly when I spent time (more & more lately) in DBPro.

For what it's worth, I'm still using RedGate's...

Hey,

I see you found the the thread over on RedGate. It is disapointing that the RedGate tools don't work with DBPro, yet. From the MSDN Forums for DBPro, I get...

I tried maintaining a professional blog but I found I didn't have something to say often enough to make it worth it. Instead, when I've got something I really want...

Oh, and, while I like their products, Idera's god-awful orange shirts make great rags.

My boss... uh, I mean, wife lets me keep the geek shirts. I just threw away about 20 myself though. Current favorites are still the SQL Server 2005 "verb" shirts....

To a very large degree I agree with this approach. The question comes in, how do you define "work." It "works" in that it returns the data I want and...

About four years ago we ran into a problem where a major piece of functionality had been developed with only minimal DBA involvement (we had a DBA on the project,...

This is rather amazing. I'm shocked it's still going on.

The quiz (not my invention by the way, it was old when I found it over on the programming web site)...

Stump the Wizard sounds like fun. I'll have to try it with the Cub Scouts.

One we do is called the Quiz. Usually we pick a topic, animals is my daughter's...

I kind of hate these silly quibbles, especially over something trivial, but... The statement did in fact imply that only one case should be applied. It did not state that...

First off, everyone is taking this FAR too seriously.

That said, most of the functional solutions I've seen work fine for numbers divisible by 15. Inherently anything divisible by 15...

I work for an insurance company who's primary tenet is that most loss is avoidable. They're all about managing risk. The key here is managing risk, not avoiding risk. It's...

Darn, I would have failed that interview because I thought they were to keep your shoes from stinking.