Alan Kay: Geek of the Week

The development of Object-oriented programming, the windowing User-interface, Ethernet and the Laptop all had essential contributions from a brilliant, visionary,...

14 September 2009 11 min read

Laila Lotfi

Losing Your Memory

Most so-called memory leaks in .NET applications aren’t really leaks. After all, if an object has a valid reference to...

11 September 2009 3 min read

William Brewer

Calling Stored Procedures from .NET Applications

Everybody knows how to call stored procedures from a .NET application. Right? But then, how often do you see stored...

11 September 2009 18 min read

Louis Davidson

“(24 – 23 Hours) of PASS” or “Paul and Louis Try Again”

If you were at our 24 Hours of PASS session which we called the 10 Big Ideas in Database Design...

10 September 2009 2 min read

Ben Adderson

[BrowserTheory] – Adding a [URL] attribute to the [Browser] attribute for xUnit.net

EDIT: After a request in the comments, the full solution can be obtained from here. After my last post it...

10 September 2009 7 min read

Andrew Hunter

Object Overhead: The Hidden .NET Memory Allocation Cost

When developing a .NET application, one of the least visible sources of memory consumption is the overhead required by an...

09 September 2009 4 min read

Damon Armstrong

Disable XML Comment Warnings for a File

I’m a big fan of enabling XML comments when you’re working on a project (either alone or as a team)...

04 September 2009 2 min read

The Future of Monitoring

We’d like to talk to you about SQL Response version 2

Actually, we’d rather listen. We’re keen to hear your views (and see your ideas!) about what you’d like from SQL...

04 September 2009 3 min read

Damon Armstrong

Fixing the ‘Name ActiveX Control’ Message on SharePoint Sites

SharePoint sites normally have a ‘Name ActiveX Control’ used to communicate you’re online presence back to the Office system. If...

03 September 2009 2 min read

Bart Read

Advance warning: .NET Reflector download site will be unavailable overnight Sept 5th – 6th 2009

Our hosting provider is moving, yes physically moving, the server that hosts the .NET Reflector download site between facilities. This...

03 September 2009 1 min read

Tony Davis

The ORM Brouhaha

What is wrong with benchmarking software? Not much, you’d have thought. A while back, Laila Lotfi wrote an editorial on...

03 September 2009 3 min read

Bob Cramblitt

An interview with Josef Richberg – The Exceptional DBA of 2009

Josef Richberg, a DBA with HarperCollins Publishers, has been selected by judges and the DBA community as winner of 2009's...

03 September 2009 8 min read

Brad McGehee

A Code of Conduct for DBAs

Despite the fact DBAs are protectors of an organization's knowledge, and privy to much confidential information, there is no clearly...

03 September 2009 14 min read

Damon Armstrong

Avoiding Local Authentication Issues with SharePoint Sites using Host Headers

All of my VPCs are children from a base VPC that I happened to name Win2k3R2Base. At the time, it...

02 September 2009 2 min read

Richard Morris

Luca Cardelli: Geek of the Week

Luca Cardelli is probably best known for Polyphonic C# and Biocomputing, but he has designed a number of experimental languages...

02 September 2009 7 min read

Damon Armstrong

Recursive Anonymous Methods

I was having a lively discussion with a friend the other day on the finer points of anonymous methods and...

01 September 2009 2 min read

Michael Francis

When the Law Moves More Slowly than the Problem

Emails are causing problems. Based on a survey of 220 large US companies in 2008, 43% reported that they had...

28 August 2009 3 min read

Hugo Shebbeare

Disaster Recovery for SQL Server Databases

High-Availability depends on how quickly you can recover a production system after an incident that has caused a failure. This...

28 August 2009 27 min read

Timothy Wiseman

Python for the SQL Server DBA

Python is increasingly used by DBAs as a general-purpose scripting language, despite the pressure to adopt Microsoft's PowerShell. They find...

27 August 2009 8 min read

Ben Lye

Monitoring and Scheduling Exchange 2007 Database Online Maintenance

To keep the Exchange database healthy, it is important to make sure that online maintenance and online maintenance and online...

25 August 2009 11 min read

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Articles

Alan Kay: Geek of the Week

Losing Your Memory

Calling Stored Procedures from .NET Applications

“(24 – 23 Hours) of PASS” or “Paul and Louis Try Again”

[BrowserTheory] – Adding a [URL] attribute to the [Browser] attribute for xUnit.net

Object Overhead: The Hidden .NET Memory Allocation Cost

Disable XML Comment Warnings for a File

We’d like to talk to you about SQL Response version 2

Fixing the ‘Name ActiveX Control’ Message on SharePoint Sites

Advance warning: .NET Reflector download site will be unavailable overnight Sept 5th – 6th 2009

The ORM Brouhaha

An interview with Josef Richberg – The Exceptional DBA of 2009

A Code of Conduct for DBAs

Avoiding Local Authentication Issues with SharePoint Sites using Host Headers

Luca Cardelli: Geek of the Week

Recursive Anonymous Methods

When the Law Moves More Slowly than the Problem

Disaster Recovery for SQL Server Databases

Python for the SQL Server DBA

Monitoring and Scheduling Exchange 2007 Database Online Maintenance