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.

It sounds like you're almost using the tool backwards. We've been spending all our time working on the schema, in source control, and then we automate getting it out to...

No doubt that Jacob's article on Unit Testing will be as good as the job he did on this one. You might also want to check out the two I posted...

Nice introduction to DBPro. Well written.

But, I have to agree with Mr. Leach on the basic point that instead of comparing databases as a deployment methodology, we in the database...

One for the car would be really cool.

Whoa! Wait a second here. Superman is imaginary?

I'm not too sure I'm crazy about this trend. I mean, some of us have a face perfect for radio...

I do have to admit to using Redgate SQL Refactor & SQL Prompt. Between the two they do tons of formatting so I don't have to. I do like the...

I still capitalize the reserved words because not all our SQL code will end up in a nice graphical editor. It does make it a bit easier to read.

If the environment has moved to 2005 and its new development, there's no real reason to not go to SSIS. It's going to be the tool used in future releases...

Have you looked for configuration differences  between the BETA servera and PROD?

Any chance that after inserting 1.2 million rows a record at a time that you've got index fragmentation problems?

Those...

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It might not be exactly what you're looking for, but have you looked into, what was in SQL 2000, the black box? Lookup sp_trace_create in BOL.