That must be nice....

@TravisDBA

>>I'm not sold yet on whether that is a "great trait", as you tend to infer. I still look for hard working DBA's in interviews, not intellectual+lazy ones<<

I think the...

@TravisDBA

I dn't know that think that laziness isn't something to brag about in a straightforward way, and I completely agree with you about how it is not improving. But laziness...

@chris-2 Harshman

Funny you mention "I'd be more likely to miss one or make a mistake" because this too is a sign of laziness (and I am very afflicted with it...

@theboyholty

I have a series of posts about bits of characteristics that lend themselves to being a good DBA, and this is just one such bit (and a goal is to...

@jeff Moden, (and I don't really care if my name is capitalized, but I am sorry if I offended you)

We are saying pretty much the same thing. The difference is...

@jeff moden,

So, I should note that I don't indicate that you should forget everything you know 🙂 Just that "we have to forget the pain of past failures".

If you...

One other thing. If you want to make sure that the webAccount is exclusive, consider either a trigger or check constraint. Most people don't care.

You can build a view...

So I refer to this as an interface (as I believe it is close enough to the more object oriented version of the word.) Basically, you have four completely independent...

I agree.  Give me back my points!

Question: What result would you expect from this statement?

Select * from dbo.MyTable

Of course, technically what I would expect wasn't in the list.  I expect an error message "You...