Gary Varga (9/26/2013)

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I totally agree. With everything.

I am in full agreement that anyone working on the MS stack needs to know PowerShell. I myself have been using it on and...

I don't really fit into the environment you've described, Steve, but we do, kind of. We're an IT staff of 2 people, having experienced dwindling budgets and reductions in staff...

Jack Corbett (9/12/2013)

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While it isn't ideal because it requires the report to be re-run if they change the parameter, I usually implement this with a Sort By parameter...

Thanks, Jack, I'll get rid of those things.

Hi Mike and It's The Database,

Your reply, Mike, made me realize that I left out some important details. Our current SQL 2005 database is on a server on-premise. The new...

HanShi (9/5/2013)

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The RAISERROR command in your trigger raises an error with a user defined number. This error is not a standard SQL error, but RAISERROR can still be done in...

It seems pretty unanimous. I'll uninstall SQL 2008 R2 Dev. Ed, and put in SQL 2012 Dev. Ed. (Thank you, Gail, for pointing out that there's no 2012 R2.)

Interesting article, Steve. I take issue with one of your statements. You said, "Employees that dislike each other can bring down overall quality and coordination very quickly. The sooner managers...

It's more like:

Management Reports | Quarterly

I totally agree with what you said, Miles. When something goes wrong with software I've worked on, I always assume it's my fault and look at what's happening with it....

PhilipC (7/31/2013)

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Has anyone noticed how vendor databases in general are getting worse and worse? It seems we're getting to an age where regardless of quality, it's just get the product...

Good article, Steve, and one that I can really relate to, being a developer myself. I've always worked in small shops (I'm currently working in the smallest shop I've ever...

Thank you, @Phil Factor, for the explanation of the R Language.

Interesting article. I've got one question, which I ask out of my ignorance, what is R?

Totally love it!