There are some general notes I've seen (http://metadata-standards.org/11179/)

There are also some specifics, such as forming names.

Is that what you're looking for? Or more specifics like do we model a...

I've done things as Lowell has suggested. Some ORMS or tools might make an "ID" in every table, but this does become confusing. I'd have

StateID in State table

CustomerID in Customer...

You'll have to get a 144+ drives for those files.

If this is for production, you'll need to move the files around correctly. If it's dev/text, I might get a cheaper...

We have build lists here as well: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/71065/

For SQL Server 2008 R2, the latest service pack is SP2: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2630458

thanks. I have some videos to check out, and I'll add Sean's the list. For now I'm going through the book and want to see where that gets me.

peterzeke (11/14/2013)

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I read the brief text describing the TED talk video on the video webpage, and paid careful attetion to the statement about 20 hours essentially equates to 45 minutes...

jay-h (11/14/2013)

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It is claimed that it takes a dog 500 tries to learn a trick ... at 5 tries /hour that works out to 100 hours. Seems about right....

No such thing, for either. On the MVP list...

Best of luck!

I have seen quite a few DVD/BluRay players in the last decade like that. I've returned some and gotten others, quality has not improved. At some point I've lived with...

Dale Turley (11/13/2013)

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Isn't this true of television manufacturers, carpet makers, stereo manufacturers, and... just about every other business?

Would you be happy with a new stereo that could only play sound...

If it's just dev, look at this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187611%28v=sql.100%29.aspx

I'd script the permissions to set this up to a group, then add the devs to the group.

That article talks about issues after age 40 and 50, not 30.

Age discrimination is usually when you are later in your career. However it could also occur when someone doesn't...

are the indexes in use in the plan? Are statistics up to date?

Without code and an exec plan, hard to guess here.

You need some better DDL And DML here to make a care. Something like:

create table originalHeader (colname varchar(20));

insert OriginalHeader select ('AAAA'), ('BBBB '), ('CCCC');

Give us something to work with. It's...