Tony Davis Paradoxical T-SQL I’ve always taken comfort in the fact that T-SQL belongs to an enlightened age of computer languages in which the... 11 December 2009 2 min read
Laila Lotfi What should you use to build a large scalable website? If you were required to build a high-performance website with a great deal of traffic, what technology would you use?... 03 December 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson My new (fairly) tiny PC Ever since the early days of laptops, I have looked for the “perfect” device. Something with excellent battery life, very... 25 November 2009 7 min read
Roger Hart What if bad documentation gets there first? I read an interesting blog snippet a while ago about information visualizations and their capacity to set change our view... 23 November 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson PASS Wrapup Yeah, yeah, I know. PASS ended two weeks ago. Well, not for me. The effects of 5 days of standing... 21 November 2009 8 min read
Michael Francis We’re not Reflex-Upgraders. The reality of life in the server room isn’t always as it is imagined at Microsoft. We’re not reflex-upgraders. Many... 19 November 2009 3 min read
Andrew Hunter ANTS Performance Profiler 6 Early Access The Early Access Program for ANTS Performance Profiler 6 has begun. You can get the new version from the EAP... 13 November 2009 2 min read
Roger Hart Throwing a Windows 7 launch party – stealth user assistance? Ironic or unironic, the Windows 7 launch party video has been roundly mocked, for smugness, sentimentality, pageant diversity, and the... 12 November 2009 4 min read
Louis Davidson Quest DMV Breakfast Code – Disk IO For any of you who attended the Quest breakfast at PASS (and anyone else really) I wanted to go ahead... 04 November 2009 6 min read
red@work Something Spooky at Red Gate It’s not unusual to be sitting at your desk at Red Gate and hear a cheer erupt from a post-lunch... 30 October 2009 2 min read
Louis Davidson Prepping for PASS (apparently it is next week) Mercy, PASS is going to be a busy week for me. My basic schedule is: Sunday: Arrive just after 4... 29 October 2009 3 min read
Tony Davis SQL Server Sheep Ticks The doggedness with which certain SQL Server “myths” cling to the coat of the SQL Server community is really quite... 28 October 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson Seventh pillar – Encapsulated The final numbered post in this version of my “pillar” series of posts ends in the most contestable part of... 23 October 2009 6 min read
Michael Francis Virtual disks for the flop-buster Vista Service Pack 3, as we like to call Windows 7, is worth getting if you are stuck with Vista. ... 22 October 2009 3 min read
red@work Marketing Day Out Imagine waking up with the knowledge that the day ahead will be one to remember, but not being entirely sure... 22 October 2009 6 min read
Phil Factor Moving Down in the World of Work You know how it is, you’re racing to finish a nice software product that you feel sure is going to... 19 October 2009 6 min read
Tony Davis The SSRS 2008 Minefield One of the big advances in Microsoft’s “2008 platform”, with regard to Reporting Services, was that there would be a... 16 October 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson Sixth pillar – Well Performing I guess eventually I had to admit that performance matters. Whenever I speak, and in all of my books, I... 13 October 2009 7 min read
Laila Lotfi Speeding up AJAX Applications Microsoft’s recent release of Doloto reminded me of the pain of the AJAX Programmer. Doloto is a tool for optimizing... 08 October 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson Fifth pillar – Secure As I have mentioned in all of the previous posts, basic functionality is the foundation of any system. So it... 06 October 2009 5 min read
