Product Review: Schema Compare for Oracle

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Robert Sheldon

Implementing the OUTPUT Clause in SQL Server 2008

In retrospect, it was probably the inclusion of the OUTPUT clause in the MERGE statement that gave SQL Server 2008...

22 July 2010 17 min read

Andrew Clarke

SQL Source Control: The Development Story

Often, there is a huge difference between software being easy to use, and easy to develop. When your pilot users...

22 July 2010 21 min read

Joe Celko

VALUES() and Long Parameter Lists

To make progress as a relational Database programmer, you have to think in terms of sets, rather than lists, arrays...

22 July 2010 11 min read

Jonathan Allen

If you are reading this blog . . .

Or, more accurately, if you have read this blog and especially the series about using LogParser and asked a question...

21 July 2010 1 min read

Brad McGehee

Automate and Improve Your Database Maintenance Using Ola Hallengren’s Free Script

If you ever feel uneasy when you set about handcrafting database maintenance jobs for SQL Server, it may be the...

20 July 2010 35 min read

Simon Cooper

Implementing method override covariance on C# (Part 3)

To recap from my previous post, we’re trying to create a class that has the same behaviour as an explicit...

19 July 2010 4 min read

Bob Cramblitt

Reinventing the Exchange email archiver

If you could design an Exchange email archiver from scratch, what would you do differently and how would you bring...

19 July 2010 6 min read

Sean Duffy

Manageable and Trim: A Review of Exchange Server Archiver 3.0

Sean Duffy, always keen to be on the cutting edge of making his job as a production SysAdmin as painless...

19 July 2010 10 min read

Jonathan Allen

Defensive Database Programming with SQL Server

(written by Alex Kuznetsov, published by Simple Talk Publishing 2010) I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from this book,...

17 July 2010 4 min read

Damon Armstrong

Writing a Byte Array to a Hexadecimal String

I was finishing up work on a hashing library and started testing my hash values against other sources to ensure...

17 July 2010 3 min read

Simon Cooper

Implementing method override covariance on C# (Part 2)

So, C# doesn’t allow us to change the return type when overriding methods. Could we do it in IL? For...

16 July 2010 3 min read

Laila Lotfi

iWorry

It is an interesting time for any .NET developer wanting to develop software for mobile phones. We’ve always taken it...

16 July 2010 2 min read

Andrew Clarke

SmartAssembly: Eating Our Own Dogfood

Quite often at Red Gate, we are some of our own most enthusiastic software-users. SmartAssembly is a case in point....

16 July 2010 6 min read

Jonathan Allen

Keeping a track of database changes

If you are anything like me you work as part of a small team managing databases, doing a bit of...

14 July 2010 3 min read

Hima Bindu Vejella

Visual Studio VB 2010 Enhancements

The latest evolution of VB in Visual Studio will bring with it a bundle of C# functionality, nudging the two...

14 July 2010 17 min read

Eli Arbel

Reflectoron in Prism: a WPF MVVM tutorial

When Eli was writing a WPF MVVM tutorial, he decided to use .NET Reflector as his sample, and created a...

14 July 2010 9 min read

Richard Morris

Don Woods: Geek of the Week

Of all the original thinkers in IT, few are as original or as amusing as Don Woods. INTERCAL, Colossal Cave...

13 July 2010 11 min read

Matteo Slaviero

What’s New in Code Access Security in .NET Framework 4.0 – Part 2

Having introduced us to the basics of the new Code Access Security Model available in .NET Framework 4.0, Matteo Slaviero...

13 July 2010 24 min read

Damon Armstrong

Default Inner ITemplate Property is NEVER NULL in a Web Control

Randomly came across an interesting problem today. I’m building out a a template web control that allows you define your...

09 July 2010 2 min read

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Product Review: Schema Compare for Oracle

Implementing the OUTPUT Clause in SQL Server 2008

SQL Source Control: The Development Story

VALUES() and Long Parameter Lists

If you are reading this blog . . .

Automate and Improve Your Database Maintenance Using Ola Hallengren’s Free Script

Implementing method override covariance on C# (Part 3)

Reinventing the Exchange email archiver

Manageable and Trim: A Review of Exchange Server Archiver 3.0

Defensive Database Programming with SQL Server

Writing a Byte Array to a Hexadecimal String

Implementing method override covariance on C# (Part 2)

iWorry

SmartAssembly: Eating Our Own Dogfood

Keeping a track of database changes

Visual Studio VB 2010 Enhancements

Reflectoron in Prism: a WPF MVVM tutorial

Don Woods: Geek of the Week

What’s New in Code Access Security in .NET Framework 4.0 – Part 2

Default Inner ITemplate Property is NEVER NULL in a Web Control