Yawn.

Walter, last year you kept criticizing my statement about how stored procs can be flexibile - NULL handling was part of your argument. Well, I demonstrated to everyone how you can use sprocs for updates that handle NULLs as well as "change-tracking". I know that a few people wound up using what I posted.


I have zero interest in debating someone who states the following:

I'm convinced we should be so arrogant in proclaiming that we are one of the few who knows how to handle data. From what I've seen in the .NET world (but also the java world) and also from the .NET experts here, there really is a lack of realism what the power of data is and how data should be done.

Some of your notions, specifically embedded meta-data in EXEs, are more hacked-out solutions, and hardly scalable (not only in the obvious sense, but also for the size of the development teamm). I really get the feeling from many of your posts that you often work on very small teams, or teams of one.

Now...if someone else wants to jump in with a relevant example that can be realistically compared, I'll consider a comparison.