Tony Davis Building Technical Communities The SQLServerCentral technical forums have matured and evolved over the course of many years. They were initially stoked by the... 11 November 2008 3 min read
Phil Factor Feeling Grown Up in the Pretend Office Now that Christmas approaches, I’m thumbing through the catalogues for presents to give my young descendents. What’s this? “Time to... 07 November 2008 3 min read
Brian Donahue Installing databases using Wix In the promised second half of my Wix installment, I am going to demonstrate how you can install a SQL... 06 November 2008 6 min read
Andrew Clarke Winners of the Bejewelled Puzzle There are three winners: Timothy Walters – for his second solution with the offset table; He gets a $50 Amazon... 03 November 2008 1 min read
Brad McGehee Characteristics of the Exceptional DBA In this blog entry, I’d like discuss and explore the characteristics that define an Exceptional DBA. Few DBAs will have... 30 October 2008 18 min read
Phil Factor The Devil’s IT Manual: Part 3 – Phrases with which to discourage ideas The Devils Manual for IT Managers Part 3: Phrases with which to discourage ideas This is the third in my... 28 October 2008 2 min read
Andrew Clarke Litigation, and the ‘Production’ of Documents. Several recent events have been unsettling for many IT Managers. The recent collapse of banks has led to FBI investigations... 24 October 2008 3 min read
Phil Factor Technology and Testosterone Like every other IT manager, I’ve always been instinctively attracted to technologies that I don’t really understand. I’m not sure... 24 October 2008 3 min read
Tony Davis Reasons to Deprecate I’m happy to see features and services of SQL Server deprecated by Microsoft if it is for a good reason.... 24 October 2008 3 min read
Brian Donahue Arrrrgh! Wix! This week’s time-eater, for me, was to try to create an installer package (MSI) with custom actions that install databases... 21 October 2008 5 min read
David Atkinson Deploying changes to SQL Server with SQL Packager is now a lot more powerful We’ve recently released a new feature in Red Gate SQL Packager 6 that enables any script to be packaged, not... 17 October 2008 3 min read
Phil Factor PDC and the Nightmare of Over-Egging the Pudding I’ve always been warned not to read highly technical books late at night, especially after a day in which I... 17 October 2008 4 min read
Louis Davidson Inheritance in Database Design As I have been walking around Disney World this week, my mind starts to wander to matters of database design.... 15 October 2008 5 min read
red@work Being a gorilla rocks And I should know… I was a g’rilla back in 2006 and it was beyond brilliant. I even got a... 14 October 2008 5 min read
red@work All Your Kitchen Are Belong To Us Apropos of nothing, we’ve just moved into a new office to house our ever-burgeoning workforce, and naturally there are a... 09 October 2008 2 min read
Phil Factor To the next generation Whenever I try out software, I always, out of habit, send the vendors a report that says exactly what I... 07 October 2008 3 min read
Phil Factor On Being Paid in Trousers It was so long ago that I got fed up with the glacial slowness of commercial software development, and wrote... 02 October 2008 2 min read
Phil Factor Never say ‘never’ to the WHILE loop. /* download the test text file Moby-Dyck.zip here */ /* You might notice that I refer to Moby **** in this blog. This... 02 October 2008 5 min read
red@work Simply different: ingenious! Having seen Chris’ post yesterday, I thought I’d bring another perspective to the table. I joined Red Gate a few... 30 September 2008 5 min read
Brad McGehee Keep Up-to-Date on SQL Server with These RSS Feeds The Internet includes a huge amount of SQL Server content, but much of it is hard to find. One of... 29 September 2008 2 min read
