Phil Factor Clinging to the Flotsam. A survivor’s tale. I sharpened my metaphorical pencil and brooded. I decided to write some simple tips on how a software company could... 12 January 2009 5 min read
Phil Factor How to Insult People in Forums Should you insult posters on newsgroups, forums or online discussions? This may be a strange question to ask, and the... 09 January 2009 8 min read
Louis Davidson The first pillar – A Coherent Design One of the definitions on wiktionary.org for coherence is “a logical arrangements of parts”. In my initial post, I defined... 08 January 2009 9 min read
Louis Davidson Book Reviews… When I wrote the 2005 book, I promised that I would take the time to respond to reviews as much... 08 January 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson 2009 SQL Resolutions Every year I put out resolutions, but this year is a little different. I will post my SQL only blog... 04 January 2009 2 min read
Phil Factor Publishing to the multitude. ‘And The Lord spake unto Moses face-to-face as a man speaketh unto his friend’ Exodus XXXIII: 11 JKV It... 21 December 2008 4 min read
Phil Factor A Chilling Prophesy When I was a schoolboy with fantasies about being a successful businessman, I went to a lecture given by one... 17 December 2008 3 min read
Louis Davidson The phases of database design Before I get started with the pillars of a well built database, I want to reply (in long form) to... 16 December 2008 3 min read
Robert Chipperfield Test-driven scalability in Exchange Server Archiver I’ve recently been working on Red Gate’s new Exchange Server Archiver tool. Earlier on in the development process, I was... 15 December 2008 3 min read
Louis Davidson The N pillars of a well built database? As I am starting the process of writing my next edition of the database design book (over the next 3+... 09 December 2008 2 min read
Jason Crease Scrum: Keeping Kosher doesn't make you Jewish Our development team has started using Scrum. We’re only 4 weeks in, so it would be premature to make a... 08 December 2008 2 min read
Phil Factor The art of lifting things As part of the mystical ‘induction’ process for my latest job, I was given instruction on how to lift weights.... 30 November 2008 3 min read
Brad McGehee How to Hone Your DBA Skill Set In this article, we examine the various ingredients that will help you establish a successful career as a DBA, and... 29 November 2008 26 min read
Jason Crease Nullable Structs – An interesting ‘Gotcha’ One of the interesting new features in C# 2.0 was nullable valuetypes. Using these, you can set valuetypes to a... 26 November 2008 4 min read
red@work PASS Potpourri Our expert team of conference-goers recently returned from PASS, and laughed in the face of jet-lag to fill us in on... 25 November 2008 3 min read
Phil Factor The Devil’s manual for IT Managers: Part 5. Looking busy. The Devils Manual for IT Managers Part 5: Looking Busy This is the fifth in my series of hints for... 23 November 2008 5 min read
red@work Red Gate’s first Blood Brother Being a Community Marketeer can be a tough road some days, but I think the highlight of my career arrived... 20 November 2008 1 min read
Tony Davis PASS 2008 Keynote, Part 1: Wayne Snyder This is the first full day of the PASS 2008 conference in the wonderful city of Seattle. After a great... 19 November 2008 2 min read
James Moore Cloud Computing == Bubble 2.0? So Microsoft has jumped on the Cloud bandwagon. I doubt there was a single person in the room who was... 19 November 2008 2 min read
Robert Chipperfield Phew… we made it! (Well, the first half at least) A little over a year ago, as I was finishing up on SQL Multi Script, Colin, our head of Product... 12 November 2008 3 min read
