Fabiano Amorim

13 Things You Should Know About Statistics and the Query Optimizer

Fabiano launches into a sound technical explanation of the way that the query optimiser works in SQL Server with a...

07 January 2010 24 min read

Bart Read

Heads-up on some end-of-life management: .NET 1.x support in Red Gate’s .NET developer tools

End of life is a bit of a touchy subject, and is often either brushed under the carpet, or dealt...

06 January 2010 4 min read

Brad McGehee

Database Maintenance Plans in SSMS: An Overview

Maintenance plans are essential. Microsoft provide two tools, the Maintenance Plan Wizard and the Maintenance Plan designer, to assist the...

06 January 2010 23 min read

Richard Morris

Itzik Ben-Gan: DBA of the Day

Itzik Ben-Gan, who was one of our first Geeks of the Week in 2005, is so well known and popular...

06 January 2010 17 min read

Alex Davies

Remote Debugging with Reflector Pro – It could have been so easy!

.. but it isn’t 🙁 Visual Studio’s remote debugger is a really neat bit of kit that lets people with...

05 January 2010 2 min read

Robert Sheldon

Five Basic Steps for Implementing an Analysis Services Database

To learn an application, nothing beats getting it up and running. Getting started with Analysis Services can be frustrating unless...

05 January 2010 18 min read

Roger Hart

On the etiquette of flashing: support sites and Flash interfaces don’t mix

The discipline of theodicy is a branch of theology and philosophy. It attempts to reconcile various belief systems with the...

04 January 2010 6 min read

Laila Lotfi

The Browser That Ate My Memory

Have you noticed occasions when your browser suddenly starts eating memory? Even the latest versions of Firefox, Opera or Internet...

04 January 2010 3 min read

Matteo Slaviero

Symmetric Encryption

Cryptography is an increasing requirement for applications, so it is great that it is part of the .NET framework. Matteo...

04 January 2010 11 min read

Clive Tong

Real-World Functional Programming (book review)

I had been reading Tomas Petricek’s blog for some time when he announced that he was going to be writing...

03 January 2010 4 min read

Phil Factor

The SQL of Scrabble and Rapping

In which Phil decides to use a table consisting of all the common words in English to explore ways of...

25 December 2009 15 min read

Damon Armstrong

.NET Developer Basics – Recursive Algorithms

Recursion can be a powerful programming technique when used wisely. Some data structures such as tree structures lend themselves far...

24 December 2009 27 min read

Chris Allen

Profiling SharePoint with ANTS Performance Profiler 5.2

Using ANTS Performance Profiler with SharePoint has, previously, been possible, but not easy. Version 5.2 of ANTS Performance Profiler changes...

24 December 2009 5 min read

Louis Davidson

Seasons Greetings.SQL

My family used to send out Christmas cards with a yearly report of "where we are from whenst we came...

23 December 2009 4 min read

Richard Morris

Guillaume Laforge: Geek of the Week

Guillaume Laforge is the project manager for the development of Groovy and Grails, and the creative force behind it. He...

21 December 2009 12 min read

Ben Lye

Customizing the Outlook Address Book

It is possible to change the fields in the Outlook address book to make them a better fit for your...

17 December 2009 6 min read

Dr. Masha Petrova

The Art of Dealing with People

Technical people generally don't easily adapt to being good salespeople. When a technical person takes on a customer-facing role as...

15 December 2009 8 min read

Charles Lee

Deploying InfoPath templates within MOSS 2007

I am going to start with a quote that I want everyone to remember. It should be in the mind...

14 December 2009 3 min read

Tony Davis

Paradoxical T-SQL

I’ve always taken comfort in the fact that T-SQL belongs to an enlightened age of computer languages in which the...

11 December 2009 2 min read

Nirmal Sharma

Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part 1

In the first of a series of articles on Hyper-V Networking, Nirmal explains Hyper-V networking and VLAN tagging, and shows...

11 December 2009 14 min read

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