Opinion: Emphasis on integration and coding in SQL Server 2005 forces database specialists to learn programmers' tricks.
Microsoft hates DBAs. Ask anyone. OK, ask anyone who is a DBA, especially those who don't really support SQL Server.
I have attended my share of IOUG and IDUG conferences in my day. I always enjoyed the performance-related presentations where one could debate the relative impact of locking scenarios and dynamic versus static SQL, or indexing strategies.
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