Adding a column to a table is  common task for  DBAs. You can add a column to a table which is a nullable column or which has default values. But are these two operations are similar internally and which method is optimal? Let us start this with an example. I created a database and a [...]

A recent blog entry I read reminded me again that I wanted to rant about an issue in SQL Server for quite some time now… SQL Server 2005 introduced the separation between user and schema. Though schemata already existed  before SQL Server 2005, they really became usable with this version, imho. At the same time  [...]