Khawar Yunus

Obfuscating Silverlight with SmartAssembly

If you are in the .NET Software business, you have a problem. .NET assemblies can be read, and debugged, by...

02 June 2010 4 min read

Laerte Junior

I’m a SQL Server DBA, and I’m in Love with PowerShell

To learn PowerShell, Laerte suggests that you just start using it. To encourage you to start, he provides a series...

28 May 2010 13 min read

Dr. Masha Petrova

Public Speaking 101 – Presenting for Your Audience

Continuing her campaign for better technical presentations, Dr. Masha Petrova now provides simple yet fundamental guidance to becoming a great...

28 May 2010 12 min read

Tony Davis

Sweet and Sour Source Control

Most database developers don’t use Source Control. A recent anonymous poll on SQL Server Central asked its readers “Which Version...

27 May 2010 3 min read

Damon Armstrong

SharePoint and COMException (0x80004005): Cannot complete this action

I ran into a small issue today working on a deployment. We were moving a custom ASP.NET control from my...

26 May 2010 2 min read

Jonathan Lewis

Oracle to SQL Server: Crossing the Great Divide, Part 2

A well-known Oracle expert records faithfully his struggles with the unfamiliar : SQL Server. He now sets himself the task...

26 May 2010 19 min read

Richard Morris

Erland Sommarskog: DBA of the Day

Erland is best known for his famous SQL Server site http://www.sommarskog.se/. It is plain, it has eight articles in it,...

26 May 2010 14 min read

Damon Armstrong

Security Issues When Creating Pages in SharePoint

I was speaking (or rather IM’ing) with Ben Collins a while back and he came across an interesting problem that...

25 May 2010 1 min read

Kathi Kellenberger

Set-based Speed Phreakery: The FIFO Stock Inventory SQL Problem

The SQL Speed Freak Challenge is a no-holds-barred competition to find the fastest way in SQL Server to perform a...

25 May 2010 31 min read

Jonathan Allen

Using LogParser – part 1

I have mentioned LogParser before on my blog and have decided to create a series of walk-through style articles to...

24 May 2010 4 min read

Buck Woody

Mission Critical: SQL Server General Configuration

You know how to set up a SQL Server instance, but it is great to have a list of all...

24 May 2010 4 min read

Robert Sheldon

SQL Server APPLY Basics

One of the most interesting additions to SQL Server syntax in SQL Server 2005 was the APPLY operator. It allows...

24 May 2010 12 min read

Bart Read

Red Gate .NET Tool Support for Visual Studio 2010

24 hours after posting my last blog I realised I’d neglected to mention Visual Studio 2010. I must have hit...

21 May 2010 1 min read

William Brewer

Advice on CSS you’ll wish your mother told you

William Brewer turns a jaundiced eye to the task of laying out web pages using CSS, and gives some nuggets...

21 May 2010 16 min read

Jonathan Allen

How do you use blog content?

Do you write a blog, have you ever thought about it? I think people fall into one of a few...

20 May 2010 4 min read

Clive Tong

F# and the rose-tinted reflection

We’re already seeing increasing use of many cores on client desktops. It is a change that has been long predicted....

20 May 2010 4 min read

Simon Cooper

Why enumerator structs are a really bad idea (redux)

My previous blog post went into some detail as to why calling MoveNext on a BCL generic collection enumerator didn’t...

20 May 2010 2 min read

Fabiano Amorim

Operator of the Week – Spools, Eager Spool

For the fifth part of Fabiano's mission to describe the major Showplan Operators used by SQL Server's Query Optimiser, he...

20 May 2010 12 min read

Simon Cooper

Why enumerator structs are a really bad idea

If you’ve ever poked around the .NET class libraries in Reflector, you probably would have noticed that the generic collection...

19 May 2010 5 min read

Michael Sorens

Essential Tools for the WPF Novice

When Michael sets out to do something, there are no half-measures; So when he set out to learn WPF, we...

19 May 2010 18 min read

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