Tony Davis Best Practice and Judgement Until the recent promise of generally-available broadband, the industry had to wrestle with the task of providing a solution to... 19 October 2010 3 min read
red@work 11 ways to celebrate a birthday Another year flies by and Red Gate reaches the grand old age of 11. Here’s what we got up to... 18 October 2010 2 min read
Jonathan Allen Dynamic Management Views (High Performance SQL Server) (written by Louis Davidson (@DRSQL) and Tim Ford(@SQLAgentMan), published by Simple Talk Publishing 2010) Firstly, this is a review of... 14 October 2010 2 min read
Laila Lotfi Orchard? No harvest quite yet. Microsoft announced last week that it was scrapping its Windows Live Spaces blogging technology, and would make Automattic’s WordPress the... 07 October 2010 3 min read
Simon Cooper There’s only one ThreadExceptionHandler There can only ever be one Application.ThreadException handler. Yes, you read that correctly. To give some context, the core of... 07 October 2010 2 min read
Tony Davis Oracle whistles a different tune It is sometimes refreshing to crawl out from the hothouse of SQL Server to take a look at other platforms.... 01 October 2010 3 min read
Clive Tong The Joy of Clojure (book review) It’s been a long time since Lisp and Scheme have been in the news. Despite the abilities of these languages... 30 September 2010 8 min read
The .NET Team TOOWTDI PowerShell 2 is an integral part of Exchange Server 2010, and the latest Windows Server technologies, perhaps on the premise... 23 September 2010 2 min read
Damon Armstrong System.DirectoryServices Unknown error (0x80005000) Resolution This seems completely ridiculous. I needed to write some queries against Active Directory so I made a quick console application... 21 September 2010 2 min read
Laila Lotfi Devscovery 2010 – Last Day It’s the last day of Devscovery and time to wrap up the Red Gate games by announcing the winner of... 16 September 2010 2 min read
Louis Davidson What I have been up to,and what I am getting down to So, clearly I haven’t blogged in quite a while, even forgetting to blog about SQL Saturday 51 event we did... 09 September 2010 4 min read
Jonathan Allen The hidden benefits of SSMS Every good DBA/developer writes their code with some comments/instructions at the top. Now in many cases this is important to... 02 September 2010 1 min read
Tony Davis The VSS Mess Microsoft’s Visual SourceSafe (VSS) will soon cease to exist. Mainstream support will end in April 2011, and so users will... 02 September 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis Oslo at rock bottom Back in 2003, Microsoft launched a project that they hoped would “capture people’s ideas, requirements and hopes for software” and... 20 August 2010 2 min read
Jonathan Allen Encouraging Comments Do you hate it when you open a piece of script and there are no comments? There is something comforting... 18 August 2010 2 min read
Simon Cooper Modifying built-in Visual Studio project templates As some of you may know, executable projects created in Visual Studio 2010 now default to the x86 build target... 17 August 2010 2 min read
Damon Armstrong Handling Hot Keys in a Windows Application I’m mostly a web developer, but there are occasions when I find myself developing WinForm or WPF applications. On those... 16 August 2010 2 min read
Phil Factor Sherry Time, the neglected break For once, Shakespeare put it fair and square. It is just like that… ‘A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation... 06 August 2010 8 min read
Tony Davis Virtue in the Virtual Everyone knows the difference between a live SQL Server database file and a backup file. However, it seems that this... 06 August 2010 3 min read
Jonathan Allen Breaking news: New technology means you can now "re-charge" batteries I know, it sounds crazy doesn’t it? Up until now you buy a battery and put it in your game... 29 July 2010 2 min read
