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# re: Some SQL Server DBA's are odd ...

Speechless :-) Heck.

Some of the comments are moronic, idiotic, stupid. Yes, it is a small bug. OTOH it is pretty bad BECAUSE it is so small. YOu may end up wit ha database accepting data it is not supposed to accept, because your field limits are too long. All kind of stupid errors can happen out of that.

But saying "why bother, storage space is cheap" is really idiotic. Damn. Well, I always said 95% of the people in IT are not exactly smart - looks like your comments on that took some of them to come out of hiding.

# re: Some SQL Server DBA's are odd ...

I think most people were complaining about the fact that it was a headline in the Dr. Dobbs thing...

Personally, I've found lots of annoying little things like this in the SQL Server Management Studio (some of which I've posted about in my blog). I get the feeling that the Management Studio was somewhat rushed out the door and it's missing a lot of "polish" which could've made it really great.

# re: Some SQL Server DBA's are odd ...

I am not sure. Well, actually I agree. Management Studio has some really great new concepts (I like the script action thing, so you can actually use the dialogs to get the SQL syntax for operations). But you are right - for anyone used to the older versions, it feels unpolished.

# re: Some SQL Server DBA's are odd ...

I currently work for an Accounting Software company in the UK and we just recently started the move from Pervasive to MS SQL.  Some of the stuff built into the new SQL 2K5 is really nice, but it would not be a real Microsoft product if it was released without bugs.

But all in all it is a good program with the biggest and only good thing that I will say about it is that SQL Express has a front end, and the Management Studio is a lot easier to use with multiple instances than Enterprise Manager.

# re: Some SQL Server DBA's are odd ...

I'm still slaving away on SQL2K, but my journey to the other side will start soon :-)

# re: Some SQL Server DBA's are odd ...

> "I get the feeling that the Management Studio was somewhat rushed out the door"

Yeah, they just had something like five years to write it after SQL Server 2000 was released...

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