Simon Cooper Anatomy of a .NET Assembly – Custom attribute encoding In my previous post, I covered how field, method, and other types of signatures are encoded in a .NET assembly.... 03 June 2011 7 min read
Rebecca Amos Got that Friday feeling? Saturday is just around the corner, and we’re all starting to wrap up for the weekend. If you’re the DBA... 03 June 2011 2 min read
Laila Lotfi Windows 8 and the future of Silverlight After Steve Ballmer’s indiscrete ‘MisSpeak’ about Windows 8, there has been a lot of speculation about the new operating system.... 03 June 2011 3 min read
Simon Cooper Inside Red Gate – Project teams Within each division in Red Gate, development effort is structured around one or more project teams; currently, each division contains... 02 June 2011 5 min read
Simon Cooper Inside Red Gate – Divisions When I joined Red Gate back in 2007, there were around 80 people in the company. Now, around 3 years... 01 June 2011 3 min read
Simon Cooper Inside Red Gate – Introduction I work for Red Gate Software, a software company based in Cambridge, UK. In this series of posts, I’ll be... 31 May 2011 2 min read
Rebecca Amos Exceptional DBA Awards 2011 From today, we’re accepting nominations for the 2011 Exceptional DBA Awards. DBAs make a vital contribution to the running of... 31 May 2011 2 min read
Louis Davidson Normalization and How to Know When You Are Done… The short version… A while back, I was working on a short article about Normalization for a book that never got published (admittedly... 29 May 2011 9 min read
Simon Cooper Anatomy of a .NET Assembly – Signature encodings If you’ve just joined this series, I highly recommend you read the previous posts in this series, starting here, or... 27 May 2011 4 min read
Grant Fritchey Tools for Cloud Construction I’ve been reviewing the tools coming from Microsoft that help you deploy and manage your SQL Azure database over on... 20 May 2011 1 min read
Simon Cooper Visual Studio vNext At TechEd this year, there’s only a few sessions and expo booths aimed squarely at devs rather than sysadmins and... 19 May 2011 3 min read
Grant Fritchey Brush Your Teeth and Clean Your Room Hello, Grant Fritchey here, one of these Scary DBAs. Tony isn’t around at the moment so I stopped by to... 12 May 2011 3 min read
Simon Cooper I’ll be at TechEd Atlanta 2011 Just a brief note here – I’ll be going to TechEd Atlanta next week as part of a huge Red... 10 May 2011 1 min read
Andrew Clarke Cloud Cuckoo Land Does it strike you odd that, despite the outage of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Block Storage on... 10 May 2011 3 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For A DBA: Curiosity It is a well-known saying that “curiosity killed the cat,” but is this really not as true as it might... 06 May 2011 5 min read
Louis Davidson SQLPASS Submissions So I am a bit hesitant to post this because the past few times I have posted about something I... 06 May 2011 4 min read
Grant Fritchey Emergency Database Restores I was reading a good article by Brent Ozar (blog|twitter) on a DBA Nightmare where I came across this section:... 04 May 2011 3 min read
Grant Fritchey SQL Azure Differential Deployments If you read my other blog, Scary DBA, you may be aware that I’ve been doing a series of experiments... 02 May 2011 3 min read
Grant Fritchey SQL Azure Deployments Over on ScaryDBA.com I posted about the new Data-Tier Application (DAC) and DAC packages (DAC pac) this morning. You might... 25 April 2011 3 min read
Grant Fritchey SQL Azure Backup Have some important information stored out there on the cloud? Want a way to get a copy of it down... 19 April 2011 3 min read
