Michael Francis The ‘Evidential Weight’ of Emails In European, and American law, there is a wisdom that can, on first glance, look perverse. You take a digital... 07 July 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson Best Thing I Learned at PASS Summit I have learned many things at every PASS Summit I have attended. First off, all of the people who are... 30 June 2009 2 min read
Tony Davis The Fall and Rise of Log Shipping When Database Mirroring was introduced in SQL Server 2005, it seemed reasonable to assume that log shipping would gradually go... 25 June 2009 3 min read
Laila Lotfi The Exceptional DBA – A Developer’s Perspective What makes an exceptional DBA? It depends on who you ask. In his book, How to become an Exceptional DBA,... 22 June 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson Read/Write Ratio versus Read/Write Ratio? So, Jason Massie (http://twitter.com/statisticsio) had a blog post (http://statisticsio.com/Home/tabid/36/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/324/Is-8020-a-90rsquos-Estimate.aspx) that Kendal Van Dyke (http://twitter.com/sqldba) alerted me to at SQL Saturday... 20 June 2009 5 min read
Bart Read Keeping it simple, not stupid: ANTS Memory Profiler 5 is out! During our usability trials for ANTS Memory Profiler 5, one of our customers said that to do memory profiling “you’ll... 19 June 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson SQL Quiz: Gilligan’s Island Tagged, I was by the Rambling SQLSarg, Jonathan Kehayias, to answer the following question: So You’re On A Deserted Island... 17 June 2009 8 min read
Louis Davidson What is a physical database? A bit of terminology that gets beaten to death is that of the “physical” database. I would think most every... 11 June 2009 3 min read
Andrew Hunter Commentary I write a lot of comments in my code: these days it’s second nature. Every declaration I write has a... 08 June 2009 4 min read
Louis Davidson disallow results from triggers A setting that I noticed a while back when looking at sys.configurations was disallow results from triggers. Triggers are one... 06 June 2009 5 min read
Phil Factor We Don’t Need Another Hero Stan, the SQL Hero, had a meteoric career at the large Financial Services Company where I worked. He burned red-hot... 22 May 2009 6 min read
Laila Lotfi How Slow is ‘Slow’? One of the most interesting throw-away lines at the recent TechEd show was that Entity Framework was about four times... 21 May 2009 3 min read
Doctor Dionysus The Strategic Vision To the huddled masses of men it was as if the God of war himself had stage-managed the scene. As... 20 May 2009 7 min read
Michael Francis We finally did it! We’ve finally done it! We’ve released our Exchange archiving tool after 18 months of research, development, usability studies and testing.... 19 May 2009 1 min read
Louis Davidson Checkpoint – Four pillars down, Three to Go With the previous post on the fourth pillar, I have reached the “end” of the design posts. To review, these... 14 May 2009 5 min read
Tony Davis One Shell to Rule Them All (and in the darkness bind them) It has been obvious for a while that PowerShell 2 was going to be strongly supported as the natural scripting... 14 May 2009 3 min read
Alex Davies Why I don’t care where my objects are created Back when we were designing the new memory profiler last year, Andrew had realised that there was one thing that... 07 May 2009 3 min read
Phil Factor Never Alienate your DBAs A tip for managers: never alienate your DBAs. If you do, it is liable to lead to painful consequences. I... 01 May 2009 9 min read
Louis Davidson Do you care where an idea comes from? Ok, so you are the lead ______________ for your company. The big cheese, the super duper guy who knows everything…right? ... 29 April 2009 3 min read
Tony Davis Why Most Developers are Rubbish at Estimating Recently, a local builder handed me an estimate for some construction work on my home. Once my eyes had stopped... 28 April 2009 3 min read
