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...

Oh come on man... It'd be race. Can you get back to your desk faster than I can revoke your privileges. Could be entertaining.

Hey John: Lighten up Frances. Last time...

Just a couple of points, I'm already working as a Database Developer. I spend 90% of my time worrying about structural design and database coding. Backups, security, system settings, etc.,...

We've got a few, but not a lot. 9 production servers, 2 staging servers, 3 qa servers, a training server, 3 testing servers (different than qa), and something like 6...

Nice editorial. It's just too accurate.

I've never seen an app ported from platform to platform without major rewrites. Those rewrites have occurred, not simply because of the platform shift,...

May as well flog this horse skeleton into dust....

"Good" & "Correct" in terms of data integrity within a relational database system are absolutely not in the eyes of the beholder....