Louis Davidson Perspective in Modeling Your task, model a database that represents a suburban block. You survey the area, and see the following houses (pictures... 08 June 2010 4 min read
Phil Factor Justifiable Perks. I was once the director of a start-up IT Company, and had the task of recruiting a proportion of the... 07 June 2010 4 min read
Simon Cooper Developing Schema Compare for Oracle (Part 6): 9i Query Performance All throughout the EAP and beta versions of Schema Compare for Oracle, our main request was support for Oracle 9i.... 03 June 2010 6 min read
Michael Francis Overload Avoidance A little under a year ago, Matt Simmons wrote a rather reflective article about his terrifying brush with stress-induced ill... 03 June 2010 3 min read
Jonathan Allen Watching the oil slick Having dominated the news for the last month or more BP’s problems with one of their oil exploration endeavours is... 02 June 2010 5 min read
Jonathan Allen Using LogParser – part 2 PersonAddress.csv SalesOrderDetail.tsv In part 1 of this series we downloaded and installed LogParser and used it to list data from... 02 June 2010 5 min read
Tony Davis Sweet and Sour Source Control Most database developers don’t use Source Control. A recent anonymous poll on SQL Server Central asked its readers “Which Version... 27 May 2010 3 min read
Damon Armstrong SharePoint and COMException (0x80004005): Cannot complete this action I ran into a small issue today working on a deployment. We were moving a custom ASP.NET control from my... 26 May 2010 2 min read
Damon Armstrong Security Issues When Creating Pages in SharePoint I was speaking (or rather IM’ing) with Ben Collins a while back and he came across an interesting problem that... 25 May 2010 1 min read
Jonathan Allen Using LogParser – part 1 I have mentioned LogParser before on my blog and have decided to create a series of walk-through style articles to... 24 May 2010 4 min read
Bart Read Red Gate .NET Tool Support for Visual Studio 2010 24 hours after posting my last blog I realised I’d neglected to mention Visual Studio 2010. I must have hit... 21 May 2010 1 min read
Jonathan Allen How do you use blog content? Do you write a blog, have you ever thought about it? I think people fall into one of a few... 20 May 2010 4 min read
Clive Tong F# and the rose-tinted reflection We’re already seeing increasing use of many cores on client desktops. It is a change that has been long predicted.... 20 May 2010 4 min read
Simon Cooper Why enumerator structs are a really bad idea (redux) My previous blog post went into some detail as to why calling MoveNext on a BCL generic collection enumerator didn’t... 20 May 2010 2 min read
Simon Cooper Why enumerator structs are a really bad idea If you’ve ever poked around the .NET class libraries in Reflector, you probably would have noticed that the generic collection... 19 May 2010 5 min read
Jonathan Allen Is this table replicated? Another in the potentially quite sporadic series of I need to do … but I cant find it on the... 17 May 2010 2 min read
Roger Hart Pub banter – content strategy at the ballot box? Last night, I was challenged to explain (and defend) content strategy. Three sheets to the wind after a pub quiz,... 14 May 2010 2 min read
Tony Davis Access Denied When Microsoft executives wake up in the night screaming, I suspect they are having a nightmare about their own version... 13 May 2010 3 min read
Jonathan Allen Welcome to Jackstown I live in a small town, the population count isn’t that great but let me introduce you to some of... 12 May 2010 5 min read
Michael Francis F1 Pit Pragmatics “I hate computers. No, really, I hate them. I love the communications they facilitate, I love the conveniences they provide... 07 May 2010 4 min read
