Michael Williamson

Lightning talk: Sam Blackburn – Coderetreat

In the spirit of trying to encourage more deliberate practice amongst coders in Red Gate, Lauri Pesonen had the idea...

24 August 2012 8 min read

Robert Sheldon

Report Builder 3.0: Creating a Basic Report

Report Builder is underrated as a BI and report-authoring tool. It is a free stand-alone application from Microsoft that provides...

24 August 2012 18 min read

Chris Lambrou

SQL Monitor’s data repository

As one of the developers of SQL Monitor, I often get requests passed on by our support people from customers...

23 August 2012 7 min read

Jeremy Jarrell

Looking Back; or How to Improve Your Team with Retrospectives

Instead of waiting until the end of a project to ask 'what worked and what didn't, why not use regular...

23 August 2012 11 min read

The .NET Team

Some Early Considerations

Following on from my previous post, I want to say “thank you” to everyone who has got in touch and...

22 August 2012 5 min read

Dino Esposito

ASP.NET MVC Controllers and Conventions

Why is it that ASP.NET MVC has such strongly-enforced naming conventions? Can conventions for the default behaviour of code actually...

22 August 2012 12 min read

Greg Lucas

Test-driven Database Development – Why tSQLt?

Test-Driven Development (TDD) has a good track record in application development, but is less well-established in database development work. This...

21 August 2012 16 min read

Simon Cooper

Inside the DLR – Invoking methods

So, we’ve looked at how a dynamic call is represented in a compiled assembly, and how the dynamic lookup is...

20 August 2012 8 min read

Michael Williamson

Red Gate Coder interviews: Alex Davies

Alex Davies has been a software engineer at Red Gate since graduating from university, and is currently busy working on...

20 August 2012 22 min read

Jonathan Allen

48hrs in Cambridge.

In just over 2 weeks something pretty big in the SQL Server Community in the UK is taking place. We...

20 August 2012 1 min read

Grant Fritchey

Monitoring Your Servers

If you are the DBA in a large scale enterprise, you’re probably already monitoring your servers for up-time and performance....

17 August 2012 2 min read

Tony Davis

Fear of the Unknown Codebase

It is inevitable that anyone who inherits responsibility for an application will experience that feeling of nagging apprehension. Some signs...

17 August 2012 2 min read

Michael Williamson

Red Gate Coder interviews: Jeff Foster

Jeff Foster is a software engineer at Red Gate, and also happens to be the current Head of Software Engineering....

17 August 2012 34 min read

Edward Charbeneau

Rapid Prototyping, the MVC Working Model

If you've ever had to build a working model from scratch, or produce a quick prototype for something, you know...

16 August 2012 10 min read

Michael Williamson

Red Gate Coder interviews: Peter Cowan

Having just finished a Computer Science degree at Cambridge University, Peter is spending this summer being an intern here at...

14 August 2012 19 min read

Michael Williamson

Down Tools Week Project: Red Gate Coders

It’s Down Tools Week at Red Gate, which means that for one week, I’ll stop working on my usual projects...

14 August 2012 1 min read

Louis Davidson

And interview, an online session, a long drive and a SQL Saturday… This week!

Later this week I will be doing an episode of the Greg Low’s excellent SQL Down Under podcast (http://www.sqldownunder.com/Resources/Podcast.aspx), something...

14 August 2012 2 min read

Gail Shaw

Gail Shaw’s SQL Server Howlers

For the latest in our series of SQL Server Howlers, we asked Gail Shaw which common SQL Server mistakes and...

14 August 2012 22 min read

Jonathan Allen

Customising your monitoring

If you are anything like me you’ve always been the sort of person that likes to take things apart and...

13 August 2012 3 min read

Glenn Berry

Provisioning a New SQL Server Instance – Part Two

So how should you install and configure SQL Server 2012 properly? Glenn Berry completes his two-part series by explaining the...

13 August 2012 11 min read

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Lightning talk: Sam Blackburn – Coderetreat

Report Builder 3.0: Creating a Basic Report

SQL Monitor’s data repository

Looking Back; or How to Improve Your Team with Retrospectives

Some Early Considerations

ASP.NET MVC Controllers and Conventions

Test-driven Database Development – Why tSQLt?

Inside the DLR – Invoking methods

Red Gate Coder interviews: Alex Davies

48hrs in Cambridge.

Monitoring Your Servers

Fear of the Unknown Codebase

Red Gate Coder interviews: Jeff Foster

Rapid Prototyping, the MVC Working Model

Red Gate Coder interviews: Peter Cowan

Down Tools Week Project: Red Gate Coders

And interview, an online session, a long drive and a SQL Saturday… This week!

Gail Shaw’s SQL Server Howlers

Customising your monitoring

Provisioning a New SQL Server Instance – Part Two