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....

A little late to the party I realize, but we're in a similar boat to everyone else. We don't have a driving business need to move to 2005. 2000 is...

My story was absolutely not funny at the time...

I was working for a dot com where the Harvard grad president had a "think outside the box" epiphany. This computer stuff,...

Great article. Thanks for all the work. While I was aware that avoiding implicit converts resulted in better query plans, I didn't know about the data precedence. That's a great...

All darn good reasons to switch to 2005, but none of them really offer actual productivity gains (maybe the templates, but that's pretty slight). Thanks for the feedback.

That's very much in keeping with my experiences and research, but I was hoping I'd missed something. I've got two reasons for switching over, one good, one not so. The...

You are the #1 resource on this stuff. I send anyone who'll listen over to your web site.

It's an add-on to Visual Studio. It's specifically targeted at database development. It manages all your database objects locally through scripts that can be checked into source control. It has...

I have to agree. The database development team that I belong to has been trying to work out these kinds of methods, but the nature of databases and the dirth...

Woo Hoo! Scott Ambler!

Thanks for the response. I've read both your database books (Agile Database Techniques & Refactoring Databases) and have forced a few people in the organization to read the first one...

Hello,

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, but I didn't get any alerts that there were posts on this article. I thought no one was reading it.

Several of us...