Jonathan Allen It’s good to be a little bit scared How many times have you read or heard that phrase from someone about to embark on some endeavour? A stand-up... 08 July 2011 3 min read
Simon Cooper Inside Red Gate – Testers Developers might write good code, but no matter how good they are the result will always have bugs in it.... 07 July 2011 3 min read
Richard Mitchell Windows 8 inspired website Download the zip here Working in New Biz As I work in Red Gate’s new business division much of what... 05 July 2011 2 min read
Rebecca Amos Thank you to all entrants! Finalist announcement coming soon… We had a fantastic response to this year’s Exceptional DBA Awards. A big thank you to everyone who took the... 01 July 2011 1 min read
Laila Lotfi Turnkey with LightSwitch Microsoft has long wanted to find a replacement for Microsoft Access. The best attempt yet, which is due out in,... 30 June 2011 2 min read
Rebecca Amos Last chance to enter! Exceptional DBA Awards 2011 Only 1 day left to enter the Exceptional DBA Awards! Get started on your entry today, and you could be... 29 June 2011 1 min read
Grant Fritchey SQLIO Writes SQLIO is a fantastic utility for testing the abilities of the disks in your system. It has a very unfortunate... 28 June 2011 4 min read
Simon Cooper Inside Red Gate – Be Reasonable! As I discussed in my previous posts, divisions and project teams within Red Gate are allowed a lot of autonomy... 24 June 2011 4 min read
Rebecca Amos 4 Top Tips from the Exceptional DBA Award judges There’s still time to celebrate your achievements as a DBA – or those of a DBA you know – by... 23 June 2011 2 min read
Richard Mitchell SQL Azure Down – how I got labs.red-gate.com back up 11:06am – Currently SQL Azure in western europe is down How do I know this? Well on labs.red-gate.com (my Azure... 23 June 2011 3 min read
Louis Davidson Chapter 7–Enforced Data Protection As the book progresses, I find myself veering from the original stated outline quite a bit, because as I teach... 21 June 2011 4 min read
Grant Fritchey SQL Excursions Not everyone likes boats. Some people like hanging out, on dry land, maybe sipping a good wine. Interested in doing... 20 June 2011 1 min read
Louis Davidson Speaking at PASS (and a plug for two other conferences) So I was notified a few days ago that one of my sessions was selected, and one is an alternate.... 17 June 2011 6 min read
Rebecca Amos 5 ways the Exceptional DBA Award could boost your career Winning the Exceptional DBA Award won’t just get you full conference registration for the PASS Summit – it could also... 17 June 2011 2 min read
Richard Mitchell 5 Reasons why I hate WPF I decided to use writing a new tool as a way to learn WPF and MVVM and I thought I’d... 16 June 2011 4 min read
Simon Cooper Inside Red Gate – The Office The vast majority of Red Gate is on the first and second floors (the second and third floors in US... 15 June 2011 3 min read
Rebecca Amos Do your good deed for the day: nominate an exceptional DBA Do you know an exceptional DBA? Think they deserve recognition at the world’s largest technical SQL Server conference? Nominate them... 10 June 2011 1 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts for A DBA – Logic “There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who will always wonder why there are only two items... 09 June 2011 4 min read
Phil Factor Sitting Pretty Guest Editorial for Simple-Talk IT Pro newsletter ‘DBAs and SysAdmins generally prefer an expression of calmness under adversity. It is... 08 June 2011 4 min read
Louis Davidson See you in Columbus Saturday? Assuming all goes as planned, I will be in Columbus, OH this Friday night and Saturday for SQL Saturday 75.... 06 June 2011 3 min read
