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!

This topic brings to me an incident I saw at a state agency I used to work at, so please indulge me as a relate this war story. This is...

I don't know, Steve. I have trouble with the concept of Big Brother, be it government or large corporate entities, knowing a great deal about me. Yes, it's a reality;...

I just found out that because I'm using a bulk copy, which apparently requires ALTER TABLE permissions, I also had to include the db_ddladmin role. Who knew (I certainly didn't,...

OK, I've discovered that my problem , with the sp_AddRoleMember stored procedure, was using both [] and ''. What I've done is this:

EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_datareader', N'DomainUsersAccess'

GO

EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_datawriter', N'DomainUsersAccess'

GO

OK, without a doubt I have determined that the lines causing me problems are:

EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_datareader', N'[DomainUsersAccess]'

EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_datawriter', N'[DomainUsersAccess]'

Those 2 lines generate the error messages:

Msg 15410, Level 11, State...

Some more info. I ran the SQL script attached to SQL Express using my Windows account. My account has the SysAdmin role assigned to it, so I would think it...

Hi Lowell,

Well, as it turns out other priorities demanded my time, so I'm only now getting back to this. Here's the SQL Script that I came up with, based upon...