Tony Davis

From NaN to Infinity…and Beyond!

It is hard to believe that it was once possible to corrupt a SQL Server Database by storing perfectly normal...

13 April 2010 4 min read

Phil Factor

Exitus Acta Probat: The Post-Processing Module

Sometimes, one has to make certain ethical compromises to ensure the success of a corporate IT project. Exitus Acta Probat...

09 April 2010 4 min read

Michael Francis

Some Problems Can’t Be Outsourced

More and more companies are becoming attracted to the idea of Infrastructure as a Service (or IaaS). It would seem...

07 April 2010 3 min read

Damon Armstrong

Avoiding Flicker with JQuery Tabs

I am a huge fan of JQuery because it seems like every time I want to do something it has...

07 April 2010 2 min read

Louis Davidson

24 Hours of PASS – Database Design Fundamentals

Well, I have to admit when I got the invite to speak during this event, I was honored (and still...

07 April 2010 4 min read

Dr. Masha Petrova

4 Geek Excuses for Bad Presentations

Frustrated by technically interesting yet agonizing conferences, Dr. Masha Petrova leaves geeks with no excuses for making bad presentations, and...

06 April 2010 8 min read

Elie Bou Issa

Getting Started with Active Directory Rights Management Services for Exchange 2010

With security concerns being a constant litany, it's worth considering Active Directory Rights Management Services as a powerful tool in...

06 April 2010 13 min read

Tony Davis

The clock hands of the buffer cache

Over a leisurely beer at our local pub, the Waggon and Horses, Phil Factor was holding forth on the esoteric,...

01 April 2010 4 min read

Buck Woody

Mission Critical: Engine Pre-Installation

Even with a task you're entirely familiar with, it is always great to have a checklist to make sure it...

31 March 2010 3 min read

Alex Kuznetsov

Basic Defensive Database Programming Techniques

We can all recognise good-quality database code: It doesn't break with every change in the server's configuration, or on upgrade....

31 March 2010 36 min read

Phil Factor

Spolskism or Twitterism: A Doctor writes…

“I never realized I had a problem. I just ‘twittered’ because it was a social thing to do. All my...

30 March 2010 4 min read

Richard Morris

Cristina Cifuentes: Geek of the Week

Cristina Cifuentes was already well-known for her work on decompilers before she took the development of Sun Microsystems 'Parfait' bug-checking...

30 March 2010 13 min read

Joe Celko

Celko’s SQL Stumper: Eggs in one Basket

Joe Celko reveals the winner of his Easter Stumper: the puzzle of designing an apparently simple database to deal with...

29 March 2010 13 min read

Damon Armstrong

Debugging JuniperSetupClientInstaller.exe Problems

I recently moved from Windows 7 to Windows 2008 server so I can run SharePoint on my physical machine and...

27 March 2010 2 min read

Rachel Potts

Help yourself (if you like)

At Red Gate we enjoy talking to our customers. Really! If you’ve read recent blog posts by members of some...

26 March 2010 2 min read

Laila Lotfi

Making the WPeFfort

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 will be launched on April 12th. The basic layout looks pretty much as it did, so...

26 March 2010 3 min read

Clive Tong

.Net Reflector 6.5 EAP now available

With the release of CLR 4 being so close, we’ve been working hard on getting the new C# and VB...

26 March 2010 3 min read

Louis Davidson

Where have I been? Speaking a lot, actually…

A few weeks back (Feb 27) I spoke at the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta (http://rmtechtrifecta.pbworks.com/), where I gave the SQL...

24 March 2010 3 min read

Rodney Landrum

New SQL Code Deployment Book and Damn I Need to Blog More

Select datediff(d,’02/19/2009′,getdate()) This value returned from the above SELECT statement is 398 and that is the number of days since...

24 March 2010 2 min read

Edward Elliott

Investigating .NET Memory Management and Garbage Collection

Investigating a subtle memory leak can be tricky business, but things are made easier by using The .NET framework's tool...

24 March 2010 23 min read

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