For me, extended properties can be only part of the solution. Much of the information we want to put into headers are lists. We want lists of revisions, parameters maybe,...

I hope it was a relaxing time. I've been following your adventures with the HP netbook, and reading the twitters!

I really enjoyed the comments I got back from...

Actually, quite a lot of British celebrate Independence day. We have American relatives, some of us are Americans, and are really happy to celebrate an occasion that anyone can appreciate:...

sure. Here they are, getting the Exceptional DBA Test from Brad McGehee.

http://www.simple-talk.com/blogbits/philf/BradAndSheepIQChallenge.jpg

here is Shoulder, the crone.

http://www.simple-talk.com/blogbits/philf/shoulder.jpg

Well said, David. I agree with almost all you have written.

I'd like to drop in one or two other bits of general advice, if I may.

The first is that...

If anyone wants a place to practice, and an audience that aren't afraid to point out your faults, try doing voluntary work giving technical presentations for the IT department of...

Wayne,

You are absolutely right. I was brooding on the same point at Teched during one particularly amateurish presentation. The speaker had interesting things to say but his delivery was so...

Yes, 'can't let go of the marketing' is nicely put. Actually, I'm not sure that it is the Microsoft people who are the worst offenders. The strange thing I've noticed...

Steve: Yes, me too, but I would never be allowed to put these in a production system, and I'd use the more convenient TSQL triggers unless, of course, I used...

This thread has drifted off-topic at times (Thanks to Paul for pulling it back), as the editorial was about reconciling the need to train one's knowledge and awareness of database...

There are some excellent ideas here, and I am awed by their creativity. We ought to do something: and build a straw website to demonstrate intrusion techniques on. The idea...

ChrisN

I questioned the choice of PowerShell as the core scripting language coming from my decades of scripting and development experience on another redgate forum and was told basically to shut...

Jeff Moden

Any word on this, Phil? Copying code from the code windows makes some really ugly stuff with extra line breaks, no indentation, and all those nasty things I posted...

sasha.khomich

Don't agree fully. Denormalization is very usefull sometimes. For example, I have ~100 tables which is representing some...

I'll repeat this one until I turn blue. It is a terrible mistake to develop an application with an empty database, or one with just a little 'sample data' in...