TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 4: Sharing Common Code

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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

Richard Morris

Geek of the Week: Ola Bini

Ola Bini is one of the core developers for JRuby, and creator of the JvYAML and RbYAML projects. He is...

08 February 2012 11 min read

Damon Armstrong

Getting the URL to the Content Type Hub Programmatically in SharePoint 2010

Many organizations use the content-type hub to manage content-types in their SharePoint 2010 environment. As a developer in these types...

07 February 2012 1 min read

Red and the Community

Red Gate and the Community

I was lucky enough to join the Communities team in April 2011, having worked in the equally awesome (but more...

07 February 2012 2 min read

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How to Kill a Company in One Step or Save it in Three

The majority of companies that suffer a major data loss subsequently go out of business. Wesley David remembers vividly the...

07 February 2012 14 min read

Steve Harville

Migrating databases to new storage

This was a last minute request to move five databases on two servers from an old failing storage system to...

06 February 2012 2 min read

Johan Veldhuis

Migrating from OCS 2007 R2 to Lync: Part 4

Having migrated the rest of our users and legacy resources across and started getting ready to decommission OCS 2007 R2,...

06 February 2012 14 min read

Tony Davis

To Not CI to Eye

Many developers, including Troy Hunt, here on Simple-Talk, have argued persuasively that each database developer in a team needs to...

03 February 2012 3 min read

Phil Factor

Automated Script-generation with Powershell and SMO

In the first of a series of articles on automating the process of building, modifying and copying SQL Server databases,...

03 February 2012 24 min read

red@work

Red Gate does Burns Night 2012

Whilst we have our fair share, as a company, of native Scots, somehow none of them managed to attend Red...

02 February 2012 3 min read

Richard Morris

Seth Godin: Big in the IT Business

Seth Godin has transformed our understanding of marketing in IT. He invented the concept of 'permission marketing', sees the end...

02 February 2012 10 min read

Dave Green

Using SQL Test Database Unit Testing with TeamCity Continuous Integration

With database applications, the process of test and integration can be frustratingly slow because so much of it is based...

02 February 2012 22 min read

Robert Sheldon

Converting String Data to XML and XML to String Data

We all appreciate that, in general, XML documents or fragments are held in strings as text markup. In SQL Server,...

01 February 2012 18 min read

Richard Morris

Geek of the Week: Don Syme

With the arrival of F# 3.0 Microsoft announced a wide range of improvements such as type providers that made F#...

01 February 2012 9 min read

Randolf Geist

Dynamic Sampling (I), an Introduction – Part 1

Welcome to my first post on AllThingsOracle.com! This is the initial part of a series highlighting different aspects of “Dynamic Sampling”....

30 January 2012 7 min read

Brad McGehee

How to Document and Configure SQL Server Instance Settings

Occasionally, when you install identical databases on two different SQL Server instances, they will behave in surprisingly different ways. Why?...

30 January 2012 74 min read

Rob Garrison

What’s the Point of Using VARCHAR(n) Anymore?

The arrival of the (MAX) data types in SQL Server 2005 were one of the most popular feature for the...

30 January 2012 11 min read

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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

Geek of the Week: Ola Bini

Getting the URL to the Content Type Hub Programmatically in SharePoint 2010

Red Gate and the Community

How to Kill a Company in One Step or Save it in Three

Migrating databases to new storage

Migrating from OCS 2007 R2 to Lync: Part 4

To Not CI to Eye

Automated Script-generation with Powershell and SMO

Red Gate does Burns Night 2012

Seth Godin: Big in the IT Business

Using SQL Test Database Unit Testing with TeamCity Continuous Integration

Converting String Data to XML and XML to String Data

Geek of the Week: Don Syme

Dynamic Sampling (I), an Introduction – Part 1

How to Document and Configure SQL Server Instance Settings

What’s the Point of Using VARCHAR(n) Anymore?