Creating WPF Prototypes with SketchFlow

Prototyping with Sketchflow transforms what was once a frustrating and time-consuming chore. With SketchFlow, WPF prototypes can be created and...

18 June 2010 44 min read

Jeremy Jarrell

Mutation Testing

You may have a twinge of doubt when your code passes all its unit tests. They might say that the...

17 June 2010 14 min read

Matteo Slaviero

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

The Code Access Security model has been completely redesigned in the .NET Framework 4.0, to the point where CAS policies...

15 June 2010 24 min read

Louis Davidson

Tim Ford

Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management Views

This is the book that will de-mystify the process of using Dynamic Management Views to collect the information you need...

14 June 2010 4 min read

Josef Richberg

SSIS and Parallelism: The Unseen Minions

Sometimes, a procedural database process cannot easily be reduced to a set-based algorithm in order to reduce the time it...

10 June 2010 19 min read

Joe Celko

Book Review: Defensive Database Programming With SQL Server

It distils a great deal of practical experience; the writing of it was a considerable task; It packs in a...

10 June 2010 4 min read

Hima Bindu Vejella

Book Review: The Art of XSD – SQL Server XML schemas

The 14 chapters of "The Art of XSD", written by MVP Jacob Sebastian, will take the reader step-by-step all the...

10 June 2010 12 min read

Fabiano Amorim

Showplan Operator of the Week – Lazy Spool

Continuing to illuminate the depths of SQL Server's Query Optimizer, Fabiano shines a light on the sixth major Showplan Operator...

10 June 2010 9 min read

Tony Davis

DAC pack up all your troubles

Visual Studio 2010, or perhaps its apparently-forthcoming sister, “SQL Studio“, is being geared up to become the natural way for...

09 June 2010 3 min read

Jonathan Allen

An update process that is even worse than Windows updates

I’m sorry EA but your game update process stinks. I am not a hardcore gamer but I own a Playstation3...

09 June 2010 3 min read

Louis Davidson

Perspective in Modeling

Your task, model a database that represents a suburban block. You survey the area, and see the following houses (pictures...

08 June 2010 4 min read

Phil Factor

Justifiable Perks.

I was once the director of a start-up IT Company, and had the task of recruiting a proportion of the...

07 June 2010 4 min read

Michael Francis

The SysAdmin Handbook – The Best of Simple-Talk

Of almost a hundred Simple-Talk articles on topics of interest to System Adminstrators, we've chosen the best and most popular...

07 June 2010 2 min read

Richard Morris

Giancarlo Niccolai: Geek of the Week

Falcon isn't exactly new. It is a scripting language that is designed with a number of programming paradigms for multi-threaded...

07 June 2010 13 min read

Neil Hobson

Exchange 2010 DAG Creation and Configuration Part 1

If you're using Exchange 2010, then you're probably interested in using the new Database Availability Group feature for your High...

07 June 2010 13 min read

Simon Cooper

Developing Schema Compare for Oracle (Part 6): 9i Query Performance

All throughout the EAP and beta versions of Schema Compare for Oracle, our main request was support for Oracle 9i....

03 June 2010 6 min read

Michael Francis

Overload Avoidance

A little under a year ago, Matt Simmons wrote a rather reflective article about his terrifying brush with stress-induced ill...

03 June 2010 3 min read

Jonathan Allen

Watching the oil slick

Having dominated the news for the last month or more BP’s problems with one of their oil exploration endeavours is...

02 June 2010 5 min read

Jonathan Allen

Using LogParser – part 2

PersonAddress.csv SalesOrderDetail.tsv In part 1 of this series we downloaded and installed LogParser and used it to list data from...

02 June 2010 5 min read

Jonathan Medd

10 Steps to Kick-Start Your VMware Automation with PowerCLI

Virtualization is a powerful technology, but it comes with its own host of monotonous and time-consuming tasks, no matter how...

02 June 2010 17 min read

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Articles

Creating WPF Prototypes with SketchFlow

Mutation Testing

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

Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management Views

SSIS and Parallelism: The Unseen Minions

Book Review: Defensive Database Programming With SQL Server

Book Review: The Art of XSD – SQL Server XML schemas

Showplan Operator of the Week – Lazy Spool

DAC pack up all your troubles

An update process that is even worse than Windows updates

Perspective in Modeling

Justifiable Perks.

The SysAdmin Handbook – The Best of Simple-Talk

Giancarlo Niccolai: Geek of the Week

Exchange 2010 DAG Creation and Configuration Part 1

Developing Schema Compare for Oracle (Part 6): 9i Query Performance

Overload Avoidance

Watching the oil slick

Using LogParser – part 2

10 Steps to Kick-Start Your VMware Automation with PowerCLI