Nadrek (10/1/2009)

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Philosophically, with this argument, why do...

Phil Factor (10/1/2009)

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If you're building a vehicle for human space flight or a nuclear reactor, the first choice is more likely to yield fewer dead astronauts and giant holes in...

GSquared (10/1/2009)My own software career started out with an Access database, and it was junk. But it was better than what we had prior (which was post-it notes). ...

Why would you want the db to do this? Why wouldn't you require the application to term the existing record with the timestamp when the change occurred -1 (millisecond, second,...

notquitexena (10/1/2009)

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Jeff Moden (9/30/2009)

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I'm all for POP (Proof of Principle) code... the problem is, that people don't make such code scalable to begin with. People want the code real...

Wow 'em with your disaster recovery model! 😛

Actual case: Business group has need. IT is not staffed to handle that need as a priority because management has not made that need a priority. But since everyone has...

Not sure I completely follow what Nadrek is saying, but had a thought. (who knew?)

How in a global enterprise would you account for sales beginning/ending across time zones? Multiple records...

Stephanie's post seems like a good transition here, I just saw this article in an ACM newsletter, and am now wondering if this would serve to widen the gap or...

And that is the best argument so far. Nice one, Gus.

dan-579597 (10/1/2009)

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Thinking about where to put the dates:

I'm not sure if this is better or just over-engineering, but what about a PromotionInstance (PI) table between Promotion (P) and PromotionProduct...

Mod -1, how is this article supposed to help me get a date?!

Garry, I think that's part of Phil's point and part of the problem though, that the IT side feels that they don't need to keep the business side informed or...

Actually Silverfox, my crunchy ice cream experience aside, I thought this one was an ok answer. At least the OP was supplied with a topic name that would quickly answer...

Silverfox (9/28/2009)

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Is it just me, or are some of the answers recently not matching up to the questions asked.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic793172-9-1.aspx

What is the point of answering a question with something that needs...