Michael Williamson Simple Talk development: sites and modules In the last post, I described Simple-Talk’s original architecture: four .NET applications sharing the same database with very little separation... 01 August 2012 5 min read
Red Gate Software BI Tools Team UserVoice and SSAS Compare By Brian Tufnell If you’ve been following our blog, you’ll know Red Gate is developing SSAS Compare to simplify deployment... 31 July 2012 2 min read
Alex Davies Web developers rejoice – .NET Demon can reload your browser I had a bit of spare time last week, so .NET Demon has a new feature for web developers. It’s... 30 July 2012 2 min read
Damon Armstrong Setting Boolean Values in a SharePoint SPItemEventReceiver One of the confusing things about implementing an SPItemEventReceiver that modifies properties on an SPListItem is that while you are... 27 July 2012 2 min read
Red Gate Software BI Tools Team Self-service BI and SSAS Tabular By Nick Sutherland Most of the BI professionals I’ve spoken to use enterprise BI – that is, they create analysis... 26 July 2012 3 min read
Jonathan Allen SQL In the City – What an event! A guest blog from @Mrs_Fatherjack Well to repeat Mr Fritchey – WOW, what an event. They went. . . They... 25 July 2012 3 min read
Simon Cooper Inside the DLR – Callsites The DLR was introduced in .NET 4 to allow dynamic languages, like Python or Ruby, to run on the CLR.... 23 July 2012 4 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA: Time As far as I know, nobody’s last words, when their time was up, were “I wish I had worked more.”... 20 July 2012 3 min read
Jonathan Allen SQL in the City 2012 – London Redgate software first ran their SQL in the City event in 2011 in London and I was highly honoured to... 17 July 2012 7 min read
Chris George Antenna Aligner Part 9: Progress and Updates It’s been a while since my last post, and things are going well. I’ve currently got over 260 users, and... 16 July 2012 3 min read
Jonathan Allen SQL Server Query Time Out when referencing data on a Linked Server I recently had an issue where an overnight job that had a history of working successfully on a reliable basis... 16 July 2012 6 min read
Louis Davidson Louisville SQL Saturday… One more week until we get to SQL Saturday 122 in Louisville KY. I have a couple of sessions on... 14 July 2012 2 min read
Michaela Murray Next-Gen Profiling Dear .NET community, I’d like to introduce you to the newest version of ANTS Performance Profiler: 7.3. With a version... 13 July 2012 2 min read
Michael Williamson Code reviews at Red Gate A couple of other Red Gate developers, namely Mat Burton and David Conlin, and I were tasked by Jeff Foster,... 12 July 2012 4 min read
Red Gate Software BI Tools Team Testing SSAS Compare By Jonathan Watts I try to pretend I am not a geek, but with fifteen cameras (film and digital), three... 11 July 2012 5 min read
Jonathan Allen It’s time that you ought to know what you don’t know There is a famous quote about unknown unknowns and known knowns and so on but I’ll let you review that... 09 July 2012 3 min read
Tony Davis When done is not done Most developers and DBAs will know what it’s like to be asked to do “a quick tidy up” on a... 05 July 2012 3 min read
Jonathan Allen A quick look at: dm_db_index_physical_stats A quick look at the key data from this dmv that can help a DBA keep databases performing well and... 03 July 2012 11 min read
Phil Factor At times, you need to hire a professional. After months of increasingly demanding toil, the development team I belonged to was told that the project was to be... 03 July 2012 6 min read
Louis Davidson Utility Queries–Database Files, (and Filegroups) It has been a while since I last posted a utility query, and today, to avoid other work I am... 01 July 2012 8 min read