Simon Cooper Inside the DLR – Invoking methods So, we’ve looked at how a dynamic call is represented in a compiled assembly, and how the dynamic lookup is... 20 August 2012 8 min read
Michael Williamson Red Gate Coder interviews: Alex Davies Alex Davies has been a software engineer at Red Gate since graduating from university, and is currently busy working on... 20 August 2012 22 min read
Jonathan Allen 48hrs in Cambridge. In just over 2 weeks something pretty big in the SQL Server Community in the UK is taking place. We... 20 August 2012 1 min read
Grant Fritchey Monitoring Your Servers If you are the DBA in a large scale enterprise, you’re probably already monitoring your servers for up-time and performance.... 17 August 2012 2 min read
Tony Davis Fear of the Unknown Codebase It is inevitable that anyone who inherits responsibility for an application will experience that feeling of nagging apprehension. Some signs... 17 August 2012 2 min read
Michael Williamson Red Gate Coder interviews: Jeff Foster Jeff Foster is a software engineer at Red Gate, and also happens to be the current Head of Software Engineering.... 17 August 2012 34 min read
Michael Williamson Red Gate Coder interviews: Peter Cowan Having just finished a Computer Science degree at Cambridge University, Peter is spending this summer being an intern here at... 14 August 2012 19 min read
Michael Williamson Down Tools Week Project: Red Gate Coders It’s Down Tools Week at Red Gate, which means that for one week, I’ll stop working on my usual projects... 14 August 2012 1 min read
Louis Davidson And interview, an online session, a long drive and a SQL Saturday… This week! Later this week I will be doing an episode of the Greg Low’s excellent SQL Down Under podcast (http://www.sqldownunder.com/Resources/Podcast.aspx), something... 14 August 2012 2 min read
Jonathan Allen Customising your monitoring If you are anything like me you’ve always been the sort of person that likes to take things apart and... 13 August 2012 3 min read
The .NET Team Simple Talk Labs – Let the Science Begin In which I introduce a new project, explain the why and wherefore, and ask for a little help. Some Context... 10 August 2012 4 min read
Red Gate Software BI Tools Team Business Intelligence Adoption Survey Results A month ago Nick published a blog post about the path to adopting common business intelligence practices. At the same... 09 August 2012 4 min read
Jonathan Allen A quick look at: dm_db_index_usage_stats I recently wrote a post with a similar title, reviewing the dm_db_index_physical_stats so it seemed logical to pick a closely... 08 August 2012 5 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For a DBA: Tenacity By ‘tenacity’, I mean working passionately at some task until you complete it, it kills you, or what you were... 07 August 2012 3 min read
Phil Factor The SQL Looks good but does it parse? In honour of Dave Ballantyne’s excellent article ‘Cleaning Up SQL Server Deployment Scripts‘, here is a PowerShell routine that checks... 06 August 2012 3 min read
Jonathan Allen Keeping the Scary DBA from your door. Have you seen the video from Grant Fritchey regarding database backups for the impatient people that are as yet to... 03 August 2012 5 min read
Red and the Community SQL in the City – a Newbie's Experience Having joined Annabel and Hannah on the Communities team 4 months ago, it has been a busy and exciting time.... 03 August 2012 3 min read
Laila Lotfi Automated error reporting: the beginning of a beautiful relationship? Whether recognized or not, customer relations is embedded in the fabric of every software development and IT organization. Automated error... 03 August 2012 6 min read
Simon Cooper Inside the DLR – Callsite binders So, we’ve looked at how the C# compiler produces a CallSite object for every dynamic call that is made, and... 03 August 2012 4 min read
Tony Davis Automating Sanity Checks for Database Deployments Although development teams are inching closer toward their ideal of a fully automated build and deployment strategy for their applications,... 02 August 2012 3 min read
