ESE/ESENT Database Stuff

(or is "xxx considered harmful" completely worn out as a meme?) I believe that, in general, people should avoid unsigned variables, even when dealing with quantities which should only be positive. I have three major problems with unsigned variables...

A JET_COLUMNID identifies a column inside of a table (it is actually an index into an internal per-table array of column definition structures). The database meta-data provides a mapping from column name to columnid. The mapping of column names to columnids...

When an assert goes off what does it mean? In the codebases I work in, a failing assert doesn't always indicate that the code is about to fail. There actually are several conditions that we want to check with asserts. The first three are from Meyer...