Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentDictionary

Using locks to implement a thread-safe collection is rather like using a sledgehammer – unsubtle, easy to understand, and tends...

22 February 2012 11 min read

Grant Fritchey

Tuning Red Gate: #3 of Lots

I’m drilling down into the metrics about SQL Server itself available to me in the Analysis tab of SQL Monitor...

22 February 2012 4 min read

Damon Armstrong

SharePoint Scenario Framework

I’ve worked with SharePoint for some time now, and I like to think that I know all there is to...

21 February 2012 1 min read

Red and the Community

Red Gate’s on the road in 2012 – Will you catch us?

Annabel Bradford, our Communities and Events Manager, tells all about her experience of our 1st SQL Saturday of the year....

21 February 2012 3 min read

Michael Sorens

TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 5: Instrumenting Files with Version Information

Subversion lets you embed, and automatically update, information within source-controlled files to make it easy to see who did what,...

21 February 2012 19 min read

Peter Larsson

The Road to Professional Database Development: Set-Based Thinking

Under the pseudonym of 'SwePeso', Peter Larsson is famous on SQL forums for the amazing performance he can get from...

21 February 2012 7 min read

Damon Armstrong

A Complete Guide to Writing Timer Jobs in SharePoint 2010

Sharepoint allows you to run recurring processes in background on a schedule. These are Timer Jobs. It is easy to...

20 February 2012 28 min read

Jonathan Lewis

Session SQL

From time to time a request for a query to “show the current SQL” for each session appears on the...

17 February 2012 1 min read

Phil Factor

Normalisation and ‘Anima notitia copia’ (Soul of the Database)

(A Guest Editorial for Simple-Talk) The other day, I was staring at the sys.syslanguages table in SQL Server with slightly-raised...

17 February 2012 3 min read

Michaela Murray

ANTS Performance Profiler 7.0 has been released!

Please join me in welcoming ANTS Performance Profiler 7 to the world of .NET. ANTS Performance Profiler is a .NET...

16 February 2012 1 min read

Feodor Georgiev

Exploring SSIS Architecture and Execution History Through Scripting

When you are using SSIS, there soon comes a time when you are confronted with having to do a tricky...

16 February 2012 12 min read

Dimitri Gielis

E-Business Suite and APEX

There is a series of posts on my blog where I focussed on getting information out of E-Business Suite and use it...

15 February 2012 1 min read

Phil Factor

Curing the Database-Application mismatch

If an application requires access to a database, then you have to be able to deploy it so as to...

14 February 2012 6 min read

Dino Esposito

A Testing Perspective of Controllers and Orchestrators

The neat separation between processing and rendering in ASP.NET MVC guarantees you an application design that is inherently teastable. It...

14 February 2012 9 min read

Andy Brown

10 Reasons Why Visual Basic is Better Than C#

After having converted a whole lot of training materials based on VB.NET into C#, Andy 'Wise Owl' Brown decided to...

14 February 2012 8 min read

Grant Fritchey

Tuning Red Gate: #2 of Many

In the last installment, I used the SQL Monitor tool to get a snapshot view of the current state of...

13 February 2012 4 min read

Michael Sorens

TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 4: Sharing Common Code

Michael Sorens continues his series on source control with Subversion and TortoiseSVN by describing several ways one can use to...

13 February 2012 15 min read

Phil Factor

Hadoop, NOSQL, and the Relational Model

(Guest Editorial for the IT Pro/SysAdmin Newsletter) Whereas Relational Databases fit the world of commerce like a glove, it is...

10 February 2012 3 min read

Grant Fritchey

Tuning Red Gate: #1 of Many

Everyone runs into performance issues at some point. Same thing goes for Red Gate software. Some of our internal systems...

09 February 2012 3 min read

Randolf Geist

Dynamic Sampling (I), an Introduction – Part 2

If you follow me on my blog you might wonder if I let you get away without an actual test...

08 February 2012 8 min read

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Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentDictionary

Tuning Red Gate: #3 of Lots

SharePoint Scenario Framework

Red Gate’s on the road in 2012 – Will you catch us?

TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 5: Instrumenting Files with Version Information

The Road to Professional Database Development: Set-Based Thinking

A Complete Guide to Writing Timer Jobs in SharePoint 2010

Session SQL

Normalisation and ‘Anima notitia copia’ (Soul of the Database)

ANTS Performance Profiler 7.0 has been released!

Exploring SSIS Architecture and Execution History Through Scripting

E-Business Suite and APEX

Curing the Database-Application mismatch

A Testing Perspective of Controllers and Orchestrators

10 Reasons Why Visual Basic is Better Than C#

Tuning Red Gate: #2 of Many

TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 4: Sharing Common Code

Hadoop, NOSQL, and the Relational Model

Tuning Red Gate: #1 of Many

Dynamic Sampling (I), an Introduction – Part 2