Understanding Garbage Collection in .NET

Once you understand how .NET's garbage collector works, then the reasons for some of the more mysterious problems that can...

17 June 2009 14 min read

Richard Morris

Craig Newmark: Geek of the Week

Occasionally, readers of Simple-Talk will ask quizzically if the 'Geek of the Week' that the editors have chosen really is...

15 June 2009 9 min read

Louis Davidson

What is a physical database?

A bit of terminology that gets beaten to death is that of the “physical” database. I would think most every...

11 June 2009 3 min read

Brad McGehee

Brad’s Sure Guide to Indexes

In order to best appreciate the reasons for, or importance of, the various administrative tasks that are needed for indexes,...

11 June 2009 40 min read

Brien Posey

A Beginner’s Guide to Virtualizing Exchange Server, Part 2

It isn't easy to measure the consumption of physical resources by servers in virtual machines, since each partition has its'...

10 June 2009 14 min read

Andrew Hunter

Commentary

I write a lot of comments in my code: these days it’s second nature. Every declaration I write has a...

08 June 2009 4 min read

Ben Lye

Using Exchange 2007 Transport Rules to Protect the First Entry in the Address Book

Global Address Lists in MS Exchange can cause problems because the first person in the list often gets the reply....

08 June 2009 5 min read

Louis Davidson

disallow results from triggers

A setting that I noticed a while back when looking at sys.configurations was disallow results from triggers. Triggers are one...

06 June 2009 5 min read

Laila Lotfi

Profiling the Memory Usage of a .NET Application with ANTS Memory Profiler 5

We were recently taken to task by a reader who felt that the one place he'd expect to find a...

04 June 2009 8 min read

Karla Kay Remail

Thinking of Setting up a SQL Server Users Group?

The work of setting up a SQL Users Group isn't always easy, but, as Karla relates, it can be a...

03 June 2009 11 min read

Jaap Wesselius

Windows Server Virtualisation: Hyper-V, an Introduction

For SQL Server and Exchange Server, Windows Server Virtualization is going to be increasingly important as a way for the...

01 June 2009 11 min read

Richard Morris

Ken Blanchard meets the One Minute Reporter

With economic doom and gloom all around him, Richard Morris decides to seek advice before starting a business. Who better,...

28 May 2009 7 min read

Barry King

Reporting Services with Style

Even when Microsoft neglect a feature, there are always pioneers who find ways of getting around the problem. Such is...

28 May 2009 10 min read

Nick Harrison

A Gentle Introduction to .NET Code Generation

Code-generation has been used throughout the age of the digital computer. The use of code to generate code might, at...

28 May 2009 13 min read

Phil Factor

The Book ‘Confessions of an IT Manager’

For three and a half years, the 'Confessions of an IT Manager', by Phil Factor, have been a distinctive part...

27 May 2009 7 min read

Robert Sheldon

Using the FOR XML Clause to Return Query Results as XML

The FOR XML clause in SQL Server causes a lot of difficulty, mainly because it is rather poorly explained in...

27 May 2009 36 min read

Phil Factor

We Don’t Need Another Hero

Stan, the SQL Hero, had a meteoric career at the large Financial Services Company where I worked. He burned red-hot...

22 May 2009 6 min read

Laila Lotfi

How Slow is ‘Slow’?

One of the most interesting throw-away lines at the recent TechEd show was that Entity Framework was about four times...

21 May 2009 3 min read

Doctor Dionysus

The Strategic Vision

To the huddled masses of men it was as if the God of war himself had stage-managed the scene. As...

20 May 2009 7 min read

Michael Francis

We finally did it!

We’ve finally done it! We’ve released our Exchange archiving tool after 18 months of research, development, usability studies and testing....

19 May 2009 1 min read

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