I'm working for an international company. All the databases we've created in the last five years have been using unicode to support the languages we'll need in the system. There...

Absolute best wishes for the future guys. You've done extremely well with this place. It's become a go-to point for my own growth & knowledge.

I have to say I'm sorry...

Late to the game and it's a story I've told before, but, it was a heck of a nightmare.

I was working for a start-up that had a bunch of Harvard...

TRUNCATE LOG ON CHOICEPOINT

Ok, sorry, couldn't resist.

Same thing we do. As someone else said, you can't expect someone to have every aspect of the details of your own development & design process down walking in from...

Confession first, rant second. I put a single lie on my resume once about 12 years ago. I got caught and lost a great job because of it. Ever since...

We actually tracked down the solution to this, you have to have the latest & greatest Oracle OLEDB driver. Anything less & you get errors either in the size of...

We had climbed into bed with Quest (a bed we're getting out of now) and I tried Toad. What a horrifying experience that was. I can't believe anyone actually uses...

Yeah, I forgot about ER/Studio. We live in that tool quite a lot too.

I'm pretty fortunate to work somewhere that has a large enough budget that we get quite a few tools. However, the ones that large numbers of us go to on...

So, to sum up the article... it depends.

That should be answer that DBA's use in most situations.

The thing is, there really are solutions (your example being one) where dynamic SQL...

Well, in answer to the question, I'm going to fall back on the DBA standard answer, it depends. What's your definition of a enterprise class tool? Last year when SQL...

Excellent article. Nice & thoughtful. I'm definately adding it to my tool box.

A question about your process though. You went about isolating the database object that was giving you coniptions....

Science is self-correcting, eventually. It's cool.

As to the seven year old, have fun. I started talking about it with my two eight year olds which lead to some explorations, together,...

Maybe I'm wrong, but this simply sounds like an upgrade. That said, we're going through all kinds of issues with upgrades at my company. Emphasis for IT planning is in...