More time talking about a c# compiler than the SQL. No talk of the limitations of the FTS.

Bit of a waste of time really.

From title of piece I...

And if that were what we were talking about...

The final select statement where you use a local variable is different to the pure select statement, it only works because you've got all the values exactly the same. So...

As a developer I've seen some truely awful SQL. Is LINQ going to make that better or worse? Personally I think it'll make the problem even worse.

In most environments I've...

Robin, Lasse, you guys need to leave the 90's and learn about sp_executesql.

Charles, personally I think you're creating a nightmare for whoever comes after you. All the code being in...

I only ever use yyyymmddhhmmss now, although I get funny looks when someone asks me the time and I tell them it's 20,070,815,090,834. Quite a mouthful too.

Your criteria:

1."First the real gurus don't advertise their expertise."

2."gurus ... try to make it easy for others to understand"

3."And of course, the guru has kept up with technology"

4."Finally...A good developer spends...

Nonsense, how's this good for newbies? It immediately starts using 'join' and ',' without explaining these are short-hand notations, the layout of the actual SQL is bad and the table names...

I don't understand why you do half of it with passed variables and the other half with XML, for consitency and also to make the XML meaningful on its own...

It's not 'referring', you've cut and paste 90% of the text from BOL. Without even providing a reference.

If you copy random chunks of your article and put the whole phrase in...

Nice cut and paste jobbie from MSDN, ever heard of plagiarism? I avoid Microsoft technical documentation for good reason, namely that they find it impossible to write human readable documentation....

Re: The surely you should have it behind x firewall and using y IP, and a million other things that never happen in the real world, it doesn't happen in...