Grant Fritchey Tuning Red Gate: #4 of Some First time connecting to these servers directly (keys to the kingdom, bwa-ha-ha-ha. oh, excuse me), so I’m going to take... 23 February 2012 4 min read
Simon Cooper Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentDictionary Using locks to implement a thread-safe collection is rather like using a sledgehammer – unsubtle, easy to understand, and tends... 22 February 2012 11 min read
Grant Fritchey Tuning Red Gate: #3 of Lots I’m drilling down into the metrics about SQL Server itself available to me in the Analysis tab of SQL Monitor... 22 February 2012 4 min read
Damon Armstrong SharePoint Scenario Framework I’ve worked with SharePoint for some time now, and I like to think that I know all there is to... 21 February 2012 1 min read
Red and the Community Red Gate’s on the road in 2012 – Will you catch us? Annabel Bradford, our Communities and Events Manager, tells all about her experience of our 1st SQL Saturday of the year.... 21 February 2012 3 min read
Phil Factor Normalisation and ‘Anima notitia copia’ (Soul of the Database) (A Guest Editorial for Simple-Talk) The other day, I was staring at the sys.syslanguages table in SQL Server with slightly-raised... 17 February 2012 3 min read
Michaela Murray ANTS Performance Profiler 7.0 has been released! Please join me in welcoming ANTS Performance Profiler 7 to the world of .NET. ANTS Performance Profiler is a .NET... 16 February 2012 1 min read
Phil Factor Curing the Database-Application mismatch If an application requires access to a database, then you have to be able to deploy it so as to... 14 February 2012 6 min read
Grant Fritchey Tuning Red Gate: #2 of Many In the last installment, I used the SQL Monitor tool to get a snapshot view of the current state of... 13 February 2012 4 min read
Phil Factor Hadoop, NOSQL, and the Relational Model (Guest Editorial for the IT Pro/SysAdmin Newsletter) Whereas Relational Databases fit the world of commerce like a glove, it is... 10 February 2012 3 min read
Grant Fritchey Tuning Red Gate: #1 of Many Everyone runs into performance issues at some point. Same thing goes for Red Gate software. Some of our internal systems... 09 February 2012 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Getting the URL to the Content Type Hub Programmatically in SharePoint 2010 Many organizations use the content-type hub to manage content-types in their SharePoint 2010 environment. As a developer in these types... 07 February 2012 1 min read
Red and the Community Red Gate and the Community I was lucky enough to join the Communities team in April 2011, having worked in the equally awesome (but more... 07 February 2012 2 min read
Tony Davis To Not CI to Eye Many developers, including Troy Hunt, here on Simple-Talk, have argued persuasively that each database developer in a team needs to... 03 February 2012 3 min read
red@work Red Gate does Burns Night 2012 Whilst we have our fair share, as a company, of native Scots, somehow none of them managed to attend Red... 02 February 2012 3 min read
Simon Cooper Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentQueue ConcurrentQueue is, like ConcurrentStack, a lockless collection, in that it is implemented without using any locks at all. However, the... 24 January 2012 10 min read
Brian Donahue It always works on my machine. Probably the most common question that the Red Gate developer tools support gets is “Does your X work with Y?”... 18 January 2012 2 min read
Simon Cooper Inside Red Gate – Experimental Results As a brief interlude from my Concurrent Collections series, I thought I would give an roundup of how the lean... 17 January 2012 5 min read
Alex Davies A new toy – .NET Demon I’d like to present a new tool for .NET Developers that we’ve been cooking up in the Red Gate .NET... 16 January 2012 1 min read
Richard Mitchell 5 reasons why I almost loved WPF Before you read this you should probably read my original post 5 Reasons why I hate WPF. Also “Qwertie” wrote... 13 January 2012 5 min read
