Louis Davidson PASS First Timer Advice–Make it worth it! I have seen a lot of other people giving advice about what to do on your first trip to the... 26 August 2011 6 min read
Grant Fritchey Exploring SQL Azure I’m spending a little bit of time each week trying out a few things in SQL Azure. I’m convinced that... 23 August 2011 4 min read
Tony Davis A DBA’s best friend is his tempdb There is a saying amongst welfare agencies that one can tell how well a family is functioning by looking at... 18 August 2011 3 min read
Dom Smith Objects or instances Why we renamed some features in ANTS Memory Profiler 7 When you are designing a complex product, it is important... 17 August 2011 3 min read
Andrew Clarke DevOps: Nostrums or Knowledge? There are good reasons for the management of the release of applications. Businesses see it as a safety-net to ensure... 16 August 2011 3 min read
Richard Mitchell Save hours-get a command prompt Recently somebody showed me a little trick to get a command prompt in any directory. Simply hold down SHIFT whilst... 15 August 2011 1 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For A DBA: Blindness Anyone who remembers the rock opera Tommy might have guessed that this blog will describe my forthcoming rock opera about... 12 August 2011 6 min read
John Spears Introducing: SQL Tab Magic Yesterday I wrote about Down Tools Week and trying to build a working product in 5 days. I also released... 11 August 2011 1 min read
James Moore A trip back to the sharp end On 1st August, James Moore, head of the team at Red Gate who brought to the world the likes of... 04 August 2011 3 min read
Damon Armstrong How to Check if a Binary File Has Been Updated in an SPItemEventReceiver I’ve been dealing with a number of item event receivers in SharePoint and I ran across the need to figure... 02 August 2011 2 min read
Ben Challenor Learning to Xcode: thoughts of a C# developer Here at Red Gate we’ve been running a “New Business” division for a while. The goal of New Business is... 27 July 2011 8 min read
red@work SQL in the City London Last Friday I was made to wake up obscenely early, which is something that I generally avoid. On this occasion,... 27 July 2011 3 min read
Rebecca Amos Finalists announced! Exceptional DBA Awards 2011 Thank you again to everyone who entered this year’s Exceptional DBA Awards. We had a record number of responses this... 19 July 2011 1 min read
Jonathan Allen SQL in the City in retrospect – part 1 The journey, the build-up and the day The Journey We left Devon early on the Tuesday. Very early. We had... 19 July 2011 5 min read
red@work Technology Ventures Conference Red Gate attended the Technology Ventures Conference (TVC), held at the Cambridge Student Union on the 8th June, and we... 15 July 2011 2 min read
red@work Cooking up a Storm I recently moved from Red Gate’s Finance team to The Agency, where the Marketing magic (And all the colouring in),... 14 July 2011 5 min read
Louis Davidson Denali Enhancement–Duplicate Key Error Message When I was editing my chapter on implementing a database, I noticed a really nice improvement in the error message... 14 July 2011 3 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For A DBA: Education There comes a point in many people’s lives where they stop adding new knowledge and become stuck at a point... 12 July 2011 5 min read
Louis Davidson Chapter 8–Patterns and Anti-Patterns In this last kind of “creative” chapter, I will look at some of the ways you implement common problems in... 10 July 2011 3 min read
Tony Davis Bug Me Not Bug metrics are a notoriously erratic way to judge the performance of a development team and project, but despite this... 08 July 2011 4 min read
