Hey Andy!!! I dusted off the old account to post here 🙂

I love the pragmatic thoughts you bring. GREAT thoughts and great commentary as always! Indeed, cost is a factor...

So with that - I wonder if we "need" PASS apart from the Summit. And, sadly, we don't. And the days of big Summit may be passing soon anyway. It's...

I posted a long (Surprised?) blog post about this since my "more raw" twitter thread was 'invoked' at the top here 🙂 It's here - http://mikewalsh.me/2020/06/20/pass-ponderings/

I wonder if PASS is...

I realize this isn't showing you how to do it yourself programatically, but I've always liked using the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) toolkit. It shows me all instances, organizes...

kenambrose (1/22/2011)

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Well I guess you totally and completely missed my point. If there is a more fundamental and foundational concept to db design than preventing duplicates, I don't know...

kenambrose (1/21/2011)

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I have to admit I am surprised that the consensus seems to be here that it takes an expert to design a database that will prevent duplicates or that...

sknox (1/20/2011)

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mike_walsh (1/18/2011)

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This is quite possibly one of the best technical articles for a wide audience that I have read in a long time, Paul. To anyone who is already...

Koen (da-zero) (1/18/2011)

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Mike Dougherty-384281 (1/18/2011)

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part 2+ could discuss the ongoing success of Bob's business:

Returning customers update their address info, Alice is rightly concerned about the loss of information when Bob...

kenambrose (1/18/2011)

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<<struggling with the same points you find yourself struggling on>>

Happily, I haven't struggled with the issues I have just described since many years 🙂 Thanks to Fabian...

kenambrose (1/18/2011)

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re. Inroduction. Well I suppose it depends on what you feel are the "fundamentals" of our work in DB design. Personally, concepts such as natural business keys...

Ken - I think you missed the "An Introduction". You bring up some points that would be a good follow on article. Why don't you write up an article that...

Of course it would be good if I wasn't being a moron this morning and replied instead of created a new topic...

This is quite possibly one of the best technical articles for a wide audience that I have read in a long time, Paul. To anyone who is already well acquainted...

I've also implemented a few job chains and that is one of the features that I really liked in SQL Sentry's EM. Basically, we wanted to run some tasks in...

Hey Paul -

I use SQL Sentry EM/PA in many environments I support also. No flakiness noticed when I use it normally. Can you be a bit more specific? Maybe someone...