Intellisense is built into SSMS 2008, but only when connected to 2008 instances.

Ah, I think your prediction about your predictions predicts my predictions as well 😀

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/System+Development+Life+Cycle/vcspart1/523/

I agree with Matt. You need rules for Devs and DBAs, backed to some extent by permissions, to ensure that some VCS is used.

Yikes, you're giving me more forums!

I like the Challenges. We have a "contests" one, but I'll rename it to Challenges/Contests.

I'm not sure how much work is involved in anything other...

Luke, great link and I've sent a feedback note to the BOL team to correct one of the pages. Not a great question in light of that link.

I have heard...

LOL, I survived with 1 headphone, though most of my phones didn't have bluetooth :). I did lose it for a few weeks, but found it. This was after I...

I run XP on the desktop (main working environment) and Vista Ultimate on my laptop (4GB RAM), which I use for editing the podcasts. It works OK, but not great....

I want a picture! Faked, photoshop'ed, somethign

I've worked in both bullpens, offices, and cubes. The cubes were the traditional 5ft walls, 3 sides, but I also worked in a place where we had two rows of...

Glad we agree on something 🙂

Happy New Year

gcopeland, well said!

It's definitely a business decision, and I'd recommend C# if it's not substantially more expensive (time and money) for your people. If they have a lot of VB experience, and...

Not a bad idea. We'll look into adding more in the next year.

Happy New Year, thanks for the replies, and hopefully you're answering from home, not work, and I hope I have many, many less cell phones in 2009. I'm hoping for...