When I worked as a technical architect, I would never dream of letting a project go into development unless we had carefully specified the loading (e.g. transactions per second) and...

I have continual grief from developers over the makeup of the Development Database Server.

The development server should be a slow stolid reliable old workhorse. Developers always want the very...

[font="Courier New"]// You can still do it in under 2K

// Maybe we'll have to start a software movement for old

// codgers like me who like writing compact software in...

Johan,

Great article. That looks like quick thinking. How long did it take to figure out the Isolation-level problem? There is a moral for everyone in this story. DAC will,...

Certainly in the UK, we are beset by a number of failures of high-profile government IT initiatives. I feel sure that the average run-of-the-mill IT application within any organization is...

I'm not sure if I buy the idea that it is becoming simpler and simpler to write applications because the tools we use are getting better and better. It is...

Nigel 'Pop' Rivett told me that...

Jeff,

I'm a template Junkie. Where I can I do drag n' drop from the template browser from my own custom macros, and execute the macro rather than CPR and get...

I've had a fascinating time reading these comments, and learned a huge amount in the process. I'm sure that everyone else who reads these comments will learn something too. I've...

I was getting into an argument with some Agile XP people who were making out that they were the first to see the central importance of unit-testing when developing software....

The question I get asked is much higher-level than that. it is more like 'How do you actually go about writing a stored procedure'. I always tend to start out...

Steve,

That was great.

Virtualisation of SQL Server databases is going to become increasingly important this year. I'd love to see more discussion of the topic on SQL Server Central, especially...

We do, we do. It is strange how quickly one forgets this sort of horror. it...

OK. It's a deal. I needed a good...

This is an interesting article. What is most important is that it explains WHY there can be a problem, for anyone who has never been in a position of trying...