Science, like journalism, education, entertainment, and government, has been co-opted/corrupted. By, guess who. Ditto for our military, and many major religions. Combine that with having deceit as your side's main go-to tactic for "convincing" people, for decades, means you have zero credibility. Except with the stupid.

Wail til you take it in for service. If I ran a dealership, I'd keep track of who I needed to recoup some profits from. <evil grin>

I call that insurance. Insurance is not supposed to cover or subsidize routine costs, it's supposed to kick in for catastrophic losses to keep you from going bankrupt.

That and, America voted for Obama, not once, but twice, so we're getting what we deserve as far as I'm concerned. He and his philosophy and his party's is, openly, redistributionism, and <gomer_pyle>suuuprise suuuprise</gomer_pyle>, 86% of the people on Obamacare are getting subsidies, so I guess the 14% get to support them.

Next there'll be no bank robbers, just undocumented withdrawers.

FTFY. When I (at home (sick today), on my oldish (2008 R2) SQL Server install here) fire up the Import/Export Wizard (from SSMS) for example, I see (source and) destination data sources of (from the bottom up) native client, OLE DB provider for a ton of things, Excel, Access, flat file, and then .NET Framework data providers for SQL Server, Oracle, and ODBC. If I select that last one, it wants what I recall ODBC needing, a DSN. No idea WTF an SPN is, but whatever exotic thing you're trying to connect to, I personally would look for an OLE DB provider for it.

Update: Holy crap MS is weird. Even tho OLE DB came out later than ODBC, and has better performance than ODBC, it looks from the Intertubes that MS is deprecating OLE DB, in favor of the older, slower ODBC. Well slap my ass and call me Sally. Maybe something to do with the cloud focus these days and wanting to be more cross-platform (as far as enabling orgs not running Windows to still be potential Azure customers).

Microsoft is Aligning with ODBC for Native Relational Data Access

They probably don't have time. I've been asked what I'm looking for, when the first section at the top of my resume (okay, below the standard contact info stuff at the very tippy top) was my Objective section, which went something like "Seeking a full-time position utilizing my x, y, and z skills..."

I didn't even know MS still supported ODBC.

And speaking of ancient history, your linked FA turns out to be a copy-paste from an MS KB article, sans the (rather important) part about it being for SQL Server 7.0 and 2000! (A dtproperties table doesn't even exist anymore; now the diagrams are shoved into a varbinary(max) field in dbo.sysdiagrams IIRC.) I (where by "I" I mean you, smitty) should've known it was just a worthless linkbait site, given the bad English and placeholder intro paragraph that didn't seem to understand what it was saying. And the domain name.

Interesting; I'll have to try that at work tomorrow. I'd been using some script that some guy on the Interwebz wrote that reads your diagram table(s) and generates another script that can be run to restore the diagram.

As far as data modeling, I think MS wants you to use Visual Studio for everything now. (For example I think the Expression suite got folded into VS.) There's a "SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio" thingie, that maybe, might provide it:

http://www.jamesserra.com/archive/2013/12/entity-data-modeling-with-visual-studio/

p.s. Then again MS is seeming to be pretty nonchalant about dropping long-time functionality in recent years, like the "record a quick macro" feature that they dropped from VS after the 2010 version, which really burns me up. (Cue some Slashfag coming along saying use sed/awk oh you're not on Lunix u're a luser ha ha ha.)

How nice that you're such a good stooge for the Left. I'm glad I'm not distracted by evil. The results are irrelevant. If I had deviated septum issues, and someone punched me in the nose every day, I'd hardly focus on how it affects the condition. When the real issue is, they shouldn't be punching me in the nose! Period.

Whether gun control works or not is irrelevant to the invalidity of an argument supporting it. "Need" beyond a few life-critical things is all subjective. Present non-hoodwinking arguments for gun control and *then* we can have a discussion about efficacy. But present bogus arguments trying to trick people into overlooking that they are meaningless, and I don't move past that.

So nice that you're tacitly okay with deception and are willing to give it a pass and legitimize it by moving on to talking about results.

Journalists are simply taking what's wrong with business, a pure profit motive, and introducing much-needed social responsibility. There is so much injustice in America, it would be immoral to just stand by and simply do their jobs. When they're in such a special position to effect moving the nation forward, away from our evil history and our evil roots.

"I became a journalist because I wanted to change the world." -- Carole Simpson, former ABC News weekend anchor

So of course it's, a la that chart, use any story you can to push for the greater good. And go with celebrity stuff when you just can't find a way to capitalize on something, no matter how hard you try. To pass on any opportunity to advance fairness, would be failing to do the right thing. So we can laugh all we want about the irony and humor in that chart, but the Left is dead serious. So am I. Two things you'll never (let yourself) accept.

Few people need you. Therefore by that same logic you should be banned.

You don't need a house. You could live in a tent. Therefore hand over your house to me.

I can always spot Leftie-concocted "arguments" by their off-the-charts asininity.

It's a prickly world.

I have no idea who can win the election. I'm completely out of touch with what's become the average American these days.

All I know is I'm not just anti-dynasty (IOW anti- another Bush for prez), I'm anti-cartel (IOW anti- another member of the political class for prez). I'm completely in touch with the "Sixty-six percent of GOP voters [who] say they are more likely to vote for a candidate who brings new ideas and different approaches to Washington, compared to 29 percent who say experience and a proven record in government are more important to them.".

I've never done EF, but that sounds like paradise. I desperately want to just use the database as a persistence mechanism at some job, where it's just used to store a snapshot of the C# object model's state. IOW, business logic only in C# classes.

Yuck.

That's breaking even the very first normal form of relational database design, which makes me want to run away screaming.