Great points and this is an interesting debate. But it's not black and white.

Functionality has to be 100%. Or what the client needs the software to accomplish. Performance/speed/whatever we measure,...

It sounds like we're all saying something similar. You want to have the best code you can write, but it also has to get done.

The thing you can't do is...

From what I've heard, RC0 is tuned and ready. Only critical bugs left to be fixed. I don't think there's anything critical like it doesn't work, but more last minute...

Yep, vacation is vacation. Shouldn't need to be bothered, and I don't think there's a lot of competition for good people. Not enough to go around.

The problem is what's "right"?

It's tough to decide and honestly I'm not sure how many places I'd say that something is "right" and not just slightly "better". I don't think...

I have removed the link and am sending notes to publishers as well. This is not acceptable.

Authors cannot make a living on books, but this is supplemental income for them...

How are you encrypting things? Really you need the same algorithm on the server to provide the decrpytion. You could use one-way encryption, like MD5, and then just compare the...

Honestly, I would get more disk, backup locally and then copy to a remote server.

My method of handling this in the past is to backup (full and logs) to the...

No one loses points, ever. There isn't a penalty. You gain points for correct answers and we run some in fun sometimes. Take it as such.

I think the two week format, and the split, is bad. Lots of people couldn't decide when to go and some are here for two weeks, but the totals seem...

Good to see that lots of people need to take their vacation, but I'm wondering for those of you that didn't answer, do you do extra work because of vacation?

> 0, < all

You need to have a friend or two, someone you can bond with socially. It doesn't have to be everyone, but it can't be no one.

Guidance is still Q3.

One thing to remember is the TPC results submited are valid for only 6 months unless the product releases. They expire Aug 31.

In QA, you could query sp_who2, and then use dbcc inputbuffer() to see what they're running.

If it's an issue, when the server starts, open an isql or isqlw connection (no...

Glad you enjoyed it. I Think last week was actually smaller, about 4k people, but still a good show.