Tony Davis It’s the thought that counts… I recently finished editing a book called Tribal SQL, and it was a fantastic experience. It’s a community-sourced book written... 09 October 2013 3 min read
Louis Davidson SQL In The City Charlotte – Fundamentals of Database Design Next Monday, October 14, at Red-Gate’s SQL In The City conference in Charlotte, NC (one day before PASS), I will... 09 October 2013 3 min read
Ben Emmett New database profiling support in ANTS Performance Profiler In May last year, the ANTS Performance Profiler team added the ability to profile database requests your application makes to... 07 October 2013 2 min read
Ben Emmett ANTS Memory Profiler 8 released! I’m excited to say that we’ve just released ANTS Memory Profiler 8! The big news is support for profiling .NET’s... 02 October 2013 2 min read
Jess Nickson NHibernate and Stored Procedures in C# I was recently trying and failing to set up NHibernate (v1.2) in an ASP.NET project. The aim was to execute... 27 September 2013 3 min read
Phil Factor Getting to the Commissars Recently, I’ve been told, repeatedly, that few organizations have a clear and consistent idea of what they want from an... 26 September 2013 3 min read
Rodney Landrum 4 Future Inventions We Will Wonder How We Lived Without I have always wanted to be a Science Fiction writer. I am enthralled by the invention and imagination of writers... 26 September 2013 4 min read
Louis Davidson Why We Write #9 – An Interview With Laerte Junior Poltronieri For my next interview, I am going to a person whom I do not know all that well, but have... 16 September 2013 8 min read
Jonathan Allen SQL Server Policy Based Management – Creating a custom condition I have recently been looking at Policy Based Management with a view to using it to rapidly review servers in... 16 September 2013 5 min read
Phil Factor Methodology Agnostic I once went for an interview at one of those software houses in the east end of London, serving the... 12 September 2013 3 min read
Louis Davidson Relational Database Design Pre-Con at PASS Well, here we go again. I am making my final preparations again for my “How to Design a Relational Database”... 09 September 2013 4 min read
Louis Davidson PASS/SQL In The City Are Coming Up Very Soon… Every September for the past 12 years, not only does summer slowly come to an end, but it is the... 05 September 2013 5 min read
Roger Hart Pebbles and Gears and market share – what’s up with smart watches? To nobody’s enormous surprise, I’ve spent a chunk of this morning bickering on Twitter. In this case, largely in the... 05 September 2013 5 min read
Louis Davidson Why We Write #8 – An Interview With Stacia Misner Today’s interviewee is someone who is quite a prolific writer, with her most recent book being Microsoft SQL Server 2012... 27 August 2013 8 min read
Nirmal Sharma Querying Any Registry Information on Remote Computers via Script You can automate a number of manual tasks using scripts, a command line operation is always faster than a GUI... 22 August 2013 5 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA – Patience One day, you are sitting at your desk, minding your own business. Your DBA colleague walks up and exasperatedly tells... 21 August 2013 4 min read
Tony Davis Taming the SQL Beast The recent articles 10 Common Mistakes Java Developers make when Writing SQL and the follow-up, Ten More Mistakes… highlight some... 15 August 2013 3 min read
Ben Emmett ANTS Memory Profiler 8 Beta Available! This will be a short one: I want to let you know that ANTS Memory Profiler 8 is now available... 07 August 2013 1 min read
Louis Davidson Why We Write #7 – An Interview with Allan Hirt For today’s entry (and after a brief side trip through my own experiences), I move just slightly out of the... 06 August 2013 24 min read
Phil Factor Taming the spirit of the machine Often, a programmer will wrestle with code stubbornly; expending herculean effort to conquer a problem of relatively minor significance. This... 01 August 2013 2 min read
