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World Backup Day

Here at Red Gate Towers, the SQL Backup development team have been hunkered down in their shed for the last...

29 March 2012 4 min read

Simon Cooper

.NET vs Windows 8

So, day 1 of DevWeek. Lots and lots of Windows 8 and WinRT, as you would expect. The keynote had...

28 March 2012 4 min read

Martin Giffy DSouza

Building Apex Plugins 101

Martin Giffy D’Souza has created some of the most popular plug-ins available on the APEX plug-in community page. He has...

28 March 2012 1 min read

Dominic Delmolino

ORA-01801: Date Format is too Long for Internal Buffer

Oracle 10.2.0.1 (I know, version out-of-date) on Windows 2003: The other day one of my stored procedures error’ed out with:...

27 March 2012 1 min read

Robert Sheldon

Implementing Foreach Looping Logic in SSIS

With SSIS, it is possible to implement looping logic into SSIS's control flow in order to define a repeating workflow...

27 March 2012 13 min read

Simon Cooper

Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentBag

Unlike the other concurrent collections, ConcurrentBag does not really have a non-concurrent analogy. As stated in the MSDN documentation, ConcurrentBag...

26 March 2012 8 min read

Martin Giffy DSouza

How APEX Processes Various Conditions and Validations

I was recently teaching an Intro to APEX course and the students had some questions about what to put in...

26 March 2012 1 min read

Simon Cooper

DevWeek 2012

For those interested, myself and a few other people from Red Gate will be going to DevWeek 2012 in London...

26 March 2012 1 min read

Jeremy Jarrell

MongoDB Basics for .NET by Example

MongoDB is one of the more intriguing 'NoSQL' databases to emerge from 'Cloud' computing. Sometimes, the best way of understanding...

26 March 2012 11 min read

Grant Fritchey

How to Get Information About Your Backups

When you need to restore but aren't 100% sure about the contents of your backup files, what do you do?...

23 March 2012 18 min read

Joe Celko

Bin Packing Problems: The SQL

The 'bin packing' problem isn't just a fascination for computer scientists, but comes up in a whole range of real-world...

22 March 2012 10 min read

Louis Davidson

Utility Objects–Waitfor Delay Coordinator (SQL Server 2008+)

Finally… took longer than I had expected when I wrote this a while back, but I had to move my...

20 March 2012 7 min read

Alex Davies

Why lock-free data structures just aren’t lock-free enough

Today’s post will explore why the current ways to communicate between threads don’t scale, and show you a possible way...

19 March 2012 5 min read

Michael Sorens

TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 6: Snapshots

Moving backwards in time in Subversion is like time travel in science fiction. It's fine to look around, but If...

19 March 2012 14 min read

Dino Esposito

A Generic ASP.NET MVC Template

When you start an ASP.NET MVC project, you choose one of a number of project templates or starter kits. The...

19 March 2012 11 min read

Tony Davis

Concurrent Affairs

I once wrote an editorial, multi-core mania, on the conundrum of ever-increasing numbers of processor cores, but without the concurrent...

16 March 2012 3 min read

Greg Lucas

Test-driven Database Development – Why Bother?

Test-Driven Development is a practice that can bring many benefits, including better design, and less-buggy code, but is it relevant...

16 March 2012 12 min read

Sean Duffy

Building a Daily Systems Report Email With PowerShell

A combination of PowerShell and HTML can provide the basis of an easily-scanned report on the basic state of a...

16 March 2012 20 min read

David Njoku

The 40 Most Common Oracle Errors

I have been in this industry long enough to remember the bad old days, when every developer and DBA had...

12 March 2012 6 min read

Louis Davidson

Utility Objects Series Introduction (but mostly a bit of an update)

So, I have been away from blogging about technical stuff for a long time, (I haven’t blogged at all since...

11 March 2012 2 min read

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Articles

World Backup Day

.NET vs Windows 8

Building Apex Plugins 101

ORA-01801: Date Format is too Long for Internal Buffer

Implementing Foreach Looping Logic in SSIS

Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentBag

How APEX Processes Various Conditions and Validations

DevWeek 2012

MongoDB Basics for .NET by Example

How to Get Information About Your Backups

Bin Packing Problems: The SQL

Utility Objects–Waitfor Delay Coordinator (SQL Server 2008+)

Why lock-free data structures just aren’t lock-free enough

TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 6: Snapshots

A Generic ASP.NET MVC Template

Concurrent Affairs

Test-driven Database Development – Why Bother?

Building a Daily Systems Report Email With PowerShell

The 40 Most Common Oracle Errors

Utility Objects Series Introduction (but mostly a bit of an update)