Personally, I think the most common mistake made by developers is also the most common made by DBAs; being blinkered.

The app and the database are two separate tools that, when...

So long as it's not just another Flash in the pan 😉

Sorry, but someone had to state the obvious..... I'll get my coat.

Personally, yes. A cloud database would be very useful in two or three situations here at my work. However, all those are internal, spread across several national subsidiaries on a...

I seem to be jumping in with more and more posts on this thread. Apologies; I'm not trying to monopolise, but it's rather an indicator of how this editorial has...

david.murden (4/8/2009)

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I work in a large education organisation and my teams sole job is to develop BI reports across many platforms. For reporting Services we always aim to write a...

Just an interesting observation. A couple of minutes ago, I got a little pop-up on my screen saying I'd received a new email. Unfortunately, the pop-up wasn't big enough to...

A few really insidious ones I regularly see are

"....the user is always wrong"

"I know my sphere of expertise inside out, so I must know yours better than you as well"

"I...

Jeff Moden (4/6/2009)

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majorbloodnock (4/6/2009)

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Well, I expect you'll get a lot more posts to this thread agreeing with your article, albeit (frustratingly) all from people who wouldn't commit that cardinal...

rmechaber (4/6/2009)

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Steve, first thank you, thank you, thank you - for the best SQL Server online resource to help this newish DBA get up to speed on the myriad features,...

Well, I expect you'll get a lot more posts to this thread agreeing with your article, albeit (frustratingly) all from people who wouldn't commit that cardinal sin in the first...

Steve (4/3/2009)

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Old Hand, it wasn't me that made the APL dig!! 🙂

I wasn't going to say anything about this, but since I'm posting a second reply anyway, brownph99 seemed a...

I think it's all too easy to forget that SQL is an agreed standard, and a very efficient tool for carrying out the work for which it was designed.

Applications often...

Well, I've just added that list to my browser favourites. It's an excellent resource.

I'm a DBA who, at various points, has had to branch out and learn sufficient about various...

Mark Horninger (2/26/2009)

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Be interesting if they decided to charge per feature, a-la-carte style.

SQL base cost 500.00

Backup compression 100.00

Clustering ...

Oh, and I forgot. What about SQL Server Economy Edition, that doesn't crash often but costs about $7 billion to get started again when it does.