Arthur Fuller

Intelligent Database Design Using Hash Keys

Your application may require an index based on a lengthy string, or even worse, a concatenation of two strings, or...

17 February 2006 5 min read

Dominick Reed

S.P.L.I.N.K.

OK.. this has nothing to do with SQL, and for that I apologise. But it does have some relevance to...

13 February 2006 2 min read

Phil Factor

Sir! My dog ate my database.

In asking various colleagues about the disasters or near disasters they have had with databases, I find to my astonishment...

09 February 2006 3 min read

Phil Factor

Two stops short of Dagenham

Phil Factor mourns the demise of the Eccentric in the IT World - "One of the best programmers I ever...

09 February 2006 7 min read

Dan Archer

Trivial Persuits

Once again I find myself penning a missive on trivia, rather than matters of import. Still, now we’re here… Regular...

07 February 2006 7 min read

Douglas Reilly

Database Geek of the Week – Michael Rys

Dr. Michael Rys is the program manager for the SQL Server Engine Team at Microsoft, represents Microsoft on the W3C...

06 February 2006 8 min read

Dominick Reed

It all went wrong

Things weren’t going swimmingly. In fact, you could say it was an unmitigated disaster. That might sound overly dramatic though,...

04 February 2006 6 min read

Steve Joubert

Project Management 101

Most software projects fail. Only about a quarter are completely successful. About half are late and over budget and the...

02 February 2006 9 min read

Phil Factor

If you go down to the woods today…

&nbs…

29 January 2006 4 min read

David Connell

Performance and Multiple Assigment in C#

I was recently thinking if I really liked to use the Multiple assignment in ‘C#’ or if it was less...

25 January 2006 2 min read

Phil Factor

"Documentation is the castor oil of programming"

As prizes for the little occasional competitions on this BLog, we will be giving out copies of one or other...

23 January 2006 4 min read

Ludmal De Silva

ASP.Net configuration

Although it can be used in production sites, simply editing the web.config XML file, is not particularly user friendly. So...

19 January 2006 3 min read

Arthur Fuller

A case for canned SQL

Like a Phoenix, the dynamic SQL versus canned procedures and user functions argument has resurfaced on the SQL newsgroups. Many...

18 January 2006 4 min read

Phil Factor

Survival tips for powerpoint

The Database Mole Presents Survival tips for PowerPoint boredom…

17 January 2006 7 min read

Phil Factor

A SQL Limerick

It wasn’t my idea at all. However someone set me the challenge of writing executable code that rhymed and scanned...

13 January 2006 2 min read

Dominick Reed

The usability curse

When I did my degree, nobody told me that my life would forever be cursed. Not once was I taken...

09 January 2006 3 min read

Bart Read

.NET Oddities #4

This is sheer genius: System.Math.Sin( double a )System.Math.Cos( double a )…etc all take an angle in radians as their argument....

09 January 2006 1 min read

David Connell

Adding your own .NET exceptions to Visual Studio

You can easily add your own exceptions into Visual Studio so that you do not need to add them in...

09 January 2006 1 min read

Phil Factor

Unreadable code

Producing unreadable Transact SQL is something of an art form. We all know that the best Transact SQL Style is...

04 January 2006 2 min read

Bart Read

Happy New Year everyone!

Er… so what exactly was I working on two weeks ago?…

03 January 2006 1 min read

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Articles

Intelligent Database Design Using Hash Keys

S.P.L.I.N.K.

Sir! My dog ate my database.

Two stops short of Dagenham

Trivial Persuits

Database Geek of the Week – Michael Rys

It all went wrong

Project Management 101

If you go down to the woods today…

Performance and Multiple Assigment in C#

"Documentation is the castor oil of programming"

ASP.Net configuration

A case for canned SQL

Survival tips for powerpoint

A SQL Limerick

The usability curse

.NET Oddities #4

Adding your own .NET exceptions to Visual Studio

Unreadable code

Happy New Year everyone!