From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes:   
   >      I am not using source control yet (and might not).   
      
   You should, and all my advice is based from this fundamental point of   
   software engineering.   
      
   >      Am I missing a nuance regarding script vs. session?  Script-level   
   > would be less than session-level and quite possibly unwanted.   
      
   Someone could open the file in some other editor and paste it into an open   
   query window.   
      
   >      I would prefer it if T-SQL had some more of those things that   
   > general purpose languages have.  I might be different in this regard,   
   > but I would like the functionality, even if it ends up being a bit   
   > slower.  Arrays would be nice.  I am not the only one who misses them.   
      
   General programming languages usually can read and write files. This is   
   something which a very unusual activity in a database engine.   
      
   Anyway, you may have your opinions. I'm giving you the advice how to achieve   
   the best result with least pain given the circumstances.   
      
      
   --   
   Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at   
   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx   
   Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at   
   http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx   
      
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