Michael Sorens

Subversion and TortoiseSVN Cookbook Part 1- The Basics

If you have more than zero developers in your team, then you need Source Control. In this article Michael starts...

03 November 2011 23 min read

Patrick Barel

Dynamic Show/Hide in APEX

Understanding is required before success is possible [Dune] old Orange Catholic Bible When you want to hide and display certain...

31 October 2011 4 min read

Michael McLaughlin

5 Tips and Techniques for Avoiding Automatic GC Collections

Automatic memory management isn't new, but it's a wonderful thing for programmers. We bring you some tips and techniques to...

31 October 2011 21 min read

Database Administration

Grant Fritchey in Database Administration

7 Preventable Backup Errors

The loss of a company's data is often enough to put the company out of business; and yet backup errors...

31 October 2011 16 min read

Damon Armstrong

SharePoint 2010 HierarchicalConfig Caching Problem

We’ve started using the Application Foundations for SharePoint 2010 in some of our projects at work, and I came across...

29 October 2011 2 min read

Joe Celko

Voting Paradoxes: a SQL Stumper

Voting systems can become very complex, and some of them are easy to manipulate by tactical voting. Joe takes a...

28 October 2011 9 min read

Learn SQL Server

Fabiano Amorim in Learn SQL Server

Window Functions in SQL Server

When SQL Server introduced Window Functions in SQL Server 2005, it was done in a rather tentative way, with only...

27 October 2011 12 min read

Learn SQL Server

Roy Ernest in Learn SQL Server

Resource Governor

If you suffer from runaway queries, if you have several database applications with unpredictable fluctuation in workload, or if you...

26 October 2011 23 min read

Tools

Grant Fritchey in Tools

SSMS Tools Pack 2.0

If you work with SSMS, you'll know how frustrating it can be when tasks you perform every day aren't part...

26 October 2011 12 min read

Louis Davidson

Planning my Louisville SQL Saturday Presentation

So it is Tuesday night, just a few days until my presentation entitled What Counts For A DBA and I...

25 October 2011 2 min read

Simon Cooper

Some non-generic collections

Although the collections classes introduced in .NET 2, 3.5 and 4 cover most scenarios, there are still some .NET 1...

21 October 2011 5 min read

Grant Fritchey

Sharing My Thoughts on Space Flight

This went out in the DBA newsletter from Red Gate, but I enjoyed writing it so much, I thought I’d...

18 October 2011 2 min read

David Njoku

Introduction to Scheduled Jobs

Psst, wanna see something cool? I bet I can read your future. Your tomorrow is going to be almost exactly...

17 October 2011 7 min read

Laila Lotfi

Finding bugs is difficult, right?

Something I hear developers tell us all the time is that they take pride in being a developer.and that bugs...

17 October 2011 1 min read

Richard Morris

Geek of the Week: Linus Torvalds

For Windows programmers, Linus Torvalds work has suddenly become relevant. No, we don't mean Linux, but Git. This distributed Source...

17 October 2011 15 min read

Brian Donahue

Event-Driven Debugging

Most application troubleshooting involves getting an error, analyzing the error message, and at worst, attaching a debugger to work out...

15 October 2011 3 min read

Tim Hall

Cloud Control 12c R1 Installation on Oracle Linux 5.7 & 6.1

Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is the new name for what was previously know as Enterprise Manager Grid Control. Depending on...

12 October 2011 1 min read

Grant Fritchey

Auditing DDL Changes in SQL Server databases

Even where Source Control isn't being used by developers, it is still possible to automate the process of tracking the...

12 October 2011 17 min read

Gert Poel

What’s Your Choice for Oracle Forms?

Forms was a great tool and stood for fast and easy development. You could create nice data entry applications in...

11 October 2011 6 min read

Dino Esposito

Never Mind the Controller, Here is the Orchestrator

The Model-View-Controller pattern of the ASP.NET MVC allows the separation of the business logic from the input and presentation logic....

11 October 2011 11 min read

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