Richard Morris

Ted Krueger: DBA of the Day

Ted Krueger is well known for his 'Less-Than Dot' website. He is a SQL Server MVP who has been working...

15 September 2010 12 min read

Matteo Slaviero

Code Access Security in ASP.NET 4.0

In the third, and final article that introduces Code Access Security in .NET Framework 4.0, Matteo explains, with examples, how...

14 September 2010 18 min read

Michael Sorens

Taming Sandcastle: A .NET Programmer’s Guide to Documenting Your Code

The most effective way to document .NET code so that others can understand it and use it, is to use...

13 September 2010 55 min read

Richard Morris

Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell: Geeks of the Week

Learning .NET doesn't have to be dull: not when there are geeks like like Carl Fraklin and Richard Campbell with...

13 September 2010 12 min read

Fabiano Amorim

Showplan Operator of the Week – Stream Aggregate

Fabiano continues his mission to explain the Query Optimiser in practical terms, describing, one week at a time, all the...

10 September 2010 9 min read

Louis Davidson

What I have been up to,and what I am getting down to

So, clearly I haven’t blogged in quite a while, even forgetting to blog about SQL Saturday 51 event we did...

09 September 2010 4 min read

Jeremy Jarrell

Two Steps Forward to More Secure Applications

Are you certain that you know enough about cross-site scripting attacks, and SQL Injection to avoid either of them happening...

09 September 2010 10 min read

Jonathan Allen

The hidden benefits of SSMS

Every good DBA/developer writes their code with some comments/instructions at the top. Now in many cases this is important to...

02 September 2010 1 min read

Tony Davis

The VSS Mess

Microsoft’s Visual SourceSafe (VSS) will soon cease to exist. Mainstream support will end in April 2011, and so users will...

02 September 2010 3 min read

Andrew Clarke

SQL Source Control: The Development Story, Part II

When creating SQL Source Control, the team had to make decisions as to which source control systems the tool would...

02 September 2010 14 min read

Auke Teeninga

Minesweeper in T-SQL

Whatever happened to the idea that programming in TSQL can be fun? A Simple-Talk reader contributes an article to remind...

02 September 2010 8 min read

Robert Sheldon

The MERGE Statement in SQL Server 2008

When the SQL MERGE statement was introduced in SQL Server 2008, it allowed database programmers to replace reams of messy...

27 August 2010 14 min read

Ben Lye

Identifying Exchange ActiveSync Users with PowerShell

Just recently, a problem involving the iPhone/iPod's synchronisation process with Exchange 2007, made it necessary for Exchange Administrators to alert...

26 August 2010 7 min read

Sean Duffy

Setting up your own free Virtualized test environment

If you need to test new software, configurations, or operating systems, a virtual machine saves time, risk and hardware. You...

26 August 2010 12 min read

Tony Davis

Oslo at rock bottom

Back in 2003, Microsoft launched a project that they hoped would “capture people’s ideas, requirements and hopes for software” and...

20 August 2010 2 min read

Richard Morris

Josef Richberg: DBA of the Day

As the winner of the Exceptional DBA Awards 2010 is announced, we take a moment to recognize last year's winner...

20 August 2010 15 min read

Jonathan Allen

Encouraging Comments

Do you hate it when you open a piece of script and there are no comments? There is something comforting...

18 August 2010 2 min read

Brad McGehee

Rebuilding Indexes using the SSMS Database Maintenance Wizard

Index fragmentation can cause problems with query performance. Indexes therefore need to be occasionally rebuilt. the Rebuild Index task of...

18 August 2010 24 min read

Bob Cramblitt

Tracy Hamlin, Exceptional DBA of 2010, on what it means to go the extra mile

Tracy Hamlin has been elected by judges and the SQL Server community as the Exceptional DBA of 2010. The annual...

18 August 2010 6 min read

Simon Cooper

Modifying built-in Visual Studio project templates

As some of you may know, executable projects created in Visual Studio 2010 now default to the x86 build target...

17 August 2010 2 min read

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Articles

Ted Krueger: DBA of the Day

Code Access Security in ASP.NET 4.0

Taming Sandcastle: A .NET Programmer’s Guide to Documenting Your Code

Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell: Geeks of the Week

Showplan Operator of the Week – Stream Aggregate

What I have been up to,and what I am getting down to

Two Steps Forward to More Secure Applications

The hidden benefits of SSMS

The VSS Mess

SQL Source Control: The Development Story, Part II

Minesweeper in T-SQL

The MERGE Statement in SQL Server 2008

Identifying Exchange ActiveSync Users with PowerShell

Setting up your own free Virtualized test environment

Oslo at rock bottom

Josef Richberg: DBA of the Day

Encouraging Comments

Rebuilding Indexes using the SSMS Database Maintenance Wizard

Tracy Hamlin, Exceptional DBA of 2010, on what it means to go the extra mile

Modifying built-in Visual Studio project templates