Andrew Clarke Pasting code into a Blog. One reason that I often hear for the apparent inability of certain people to blog is that there is no... 15 July 2008 3 min read
Louis Davidson Triggers…Evil? Say it isn’t so. “It isn’t so.” Glenn Berry thinks so in his post here. When I read his post... 13 July 2008 3 min read
Tony Davis VB.NET: The Ugly Duckling One of the greatest pleasures of programming in C# is that wonderful, giddy, feeling of superiority one has over VB.NET... 08 July 2008 3 min read
Tony Davis SQL Server Tumbleweed Awards Several parts of SQL Server look as though they were started and then suddenly abandoned. The classic example is the... 24 June 2008 3 min read
András Belokosztolszki SQL Server 2008: new data types and .Net 2 with and without SP1 SQL Server 2008 has introduced a few new data types, among others the new date types, like date, time, datatime2... 20 June 2008 3 min read
Phil Factor The biggest secret? The first programmable computer was invented by Charles Babbage and Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. Charles Babbage’s story is... 13 June 2008 8 min read
Phil Factor Common Law, and The need for restraint. I’ll never forget the best DBA I ever appointed, because he thoughtfully taught me an effective technique for removing wheel-clamps... 09 June 2008 3 min read
Tony Davis CLR, beer and turkey It is strange that two important programming techniques in a SQL Server Database can’t be done in TSQL. The first... 06 June 2008 2 min read
Jason Crease Order of Construction For me, inheritance is often a headache. In particular, in what order is everything initialized? Consider this short C#... 02 June 2008 2 min read
Louis Davidson See you at Tech Ed? Or other places? Next week is Tech Ed Developers, and I will be there working at the OLTP demo station from: Tuesday 11:45... 30 May 2008 2 min read
Phil Factor When the fever is over, and one’s work is done. There comes a time in the life of anyone working with databases when they are struck with a peculiar mental... 29 May 2008 7 min read
Tony Davis The Object-oriented Orthodoxy and the DBA Server Management Objects (SMO) is a very impressive product. SMO (and its previous incarnation, SQL-DMO) is essentially an object-oriented interface... 27 May 2008 2 min read
Richard Mitchell Been a bit busy lately What I learned lately – by Richard Mitchell Aged 32 3/4. 1. When you’re managing a large project team don’t... 22 May 2008 1 min read
Pop Rivett New way to use up time Hello all, My first attempt at a blog. Well second actually – I’ve just created another one for myself at... 20 May 2008 1 min read
Tony Davis The DBA Daily Checklist The average DBA has to perform many routine checks on his or her servers. There will be daily checks, weekly... 13 May 2008 2 min read
Robert Chipperfield Event, sit! Event, staaaay… One of the great features in .NET is its event model. I came from a Java world before I started... 08 May 2008 5 min read
Tony Davis Bad Database Security The Daily WTF recently reported that the Sexual and Violent Offender Registry of Oklahoma had to shut down its website... 29 April 2008 2 min read
Bart Read What’s up with ‘using’? Let me lay my cards on the table right from the start: I don’t like using, and I don’t use... 28 April 2008 6 min read
András Belokosztolszki SQL Server 2008: New languages and older operating systems SQL Server 2008 introduces a few new languages like Welsh, Tibetan and Norwegian. While these new languages map to the... 21 April 2008 3 min read
Tony Davis The best and worst ways to optimize your code I was chatting to Phil Factor the other day about the slow start-up of some CLR applications. He started telling... 16 April 2008 3 min read
