Grant Fritchey Sharing My Thoughts on Space Flight This went out in the DBA newsletter from Red Gate, but I enjoyed writing it so much, I thought I’d... 18 October 2011 2 min read
Laila Lotfi Finding bugs is difficult, right? Something I hear developers tell us all the time is that they take pride in being a developer.and that bugs... 17 October 2011 1 min read
Brian Donahue Event-Driven Debugging Most application troubleshooting involves getting an error, analyzing the error message, and at worst, attaching a debugger to work out... 15 October 2011 3 min read
Louis Davidson PASS Week/Speaking/Doing Schedule Well, we are finally here at what is the secular version of the holiday season for Microsoft SQL Server nerd... 10 October 2011 3 min read
Simon Cooper SortedDictionary and SortedList Apart from Dictionary<TKey, TValue>, there’s two other dictionaries in the BCL – SortedDictionary<TKey, TValue> and SortedList<TKey, TValue>. On the face... 05 October 2011 7 min read
Rebecca Amos We're having an exceptionally good party – and you're invited! Are you coming to the PASS Summit? Then join us to help Jeff Moden celebrate his Award of Exceptional DBA... 05 October 2011 1 min read
Grant Fritchey Signal to Noise Out of the box SQL Monitor has a number of alerts configured for you. You can just install the software,... 03 October 2011 1 min read
Tony Davis Time for a rethink on SQL CLR? It is almost seven years since Microsoft announced the sensational news that, with their new SQL Server 2005, you could... 29 September 2011 4 min read
Phil Factor Presentations: On snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Ah, SQL Pass is imminent; and all over the world, people are preparing their presentations. There is great satisfaction to... 29 September 2011 8 min read
Louis Davidson Chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12 So I have been a bit remiss on my blogging the book duties. The fact is, the first 8 chapters... 28 September 2011 3 min read
Rebecca Amos An interview with Jeff Moden – Exceptional DBA 2011 He may call himself an “Accidental DBA”, but the many SQL Server professionals who have benefited from Jeff Moden’s knowledge... 27 September 2011 2 min read
Louis Davidson MVP Deep Dives 2: Coming Really Soon You probably have noticed that I haven’t blogged all that much these days. Part of the reason has been taking... 27 September 2011 3 min read
Jonathan Allen PASS UK Regional Mentor I have just had an email from Mark Ginnebaugh welcoming me to the role of PASS UK Regional Mentor. This... 26 September 2011 1 min read
Grant Fritchey SQL Azure Backup and the Command Line SQL Azure has no scheduling capabilities at all. If you want to schedule something like, oh, I don’t know, a... 26 September 2011 1 min read
Laila Lotfi The Metro Surfaces Our perceptions of Windows 8 are currently based on the live tiles of Windows Phone 7.5 ‘Mango’ and the touch-based... 22 September 2011 3 min read
Grant Fritchey SQL Azure Backup and the BACPAC Our new tool, SQL Azure Backup, is constantly undergoing changes just as SQL Azure itself does. Here’s a link to... 21 September 2011 1 min read
Grant Fritchey SQL Azure, the bacpac & Storage Containers Silly me. I thought it would be easy. I grab a copy of the latest SQL Azure Backup and I... 20 September 2011 3 min read
Simon Cooper The .NET Dictionary To many people, System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<TKey,TValue> is just a useful collection. In this post, I’ll be looking inside that collection and see... 16 September 2011 5 min read
Tony Davis SQL Code Reuse: teaching a dog new tricks Developers, by every natural instinct and training, strive to make their code reusable and generic. Dissuading them from doing so,... 01 September 2011 4 min read
Laerte Junior Storing Windows Event Viewer Output in a SQL Server table with PowerShell My good friend Marcos Freccia (blog | twitter) asked me for a simple and fast way to save the output... 31 August 2011 3 min read
