Louis Davidson SQL Server Search Macro (plus build your own directed search!) Microsoft has built a little site for searching the books online on the web (which gives you links that are... 03 April 2007 1 min read
Richard Mitchell That makes a lot more sense now I’ll admit it, I never really got the yield statement in C# before today. However there’s a very good article... 03 April 2007 2 min read
James Moore Grayscaling transparent gifs and pngs I find that I end up custom painting a lot of the controls in Red Gate products, this is normally... 29 March 2007 2 min read
Damon Armstrong SharePoint Permission Names SharePoint 2007 has a new control called the SPSecurityTrimmedControl. It’s a container control that allows you to hide or display... 23 March 2007 1 min read
Damon Armstrong Exciting New .NET Language Features If you haven’t already, check out Scott Guthrie’s blog about Extension Methods that will be available when the next version... 16 March 2007 1 min read
Damon Armstrong It’s Called Capitalism, and You’re Just as Guilty! Action 19 News in Ohio was hot on the investigative trail of a Girl Scout cookie scalper today. Apparently, the owner... 15 March 2007 6 min read
Dan Archer The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. As I believe I have already opined, dealing with databases is not one of my all time favourite activities. It’s... 15 March 2007 4 min read
Phil Factor Doing things- The Manual In the past, in order to get something done, you did something. This normally involved taking off your jacket; possibly... 08 March 2007 2 min read
Bart Read How to use SQL Prompt 3 without being dbo… For anyone out there working with SQL Server on a large or mission critical system it’s quite likely that, unless... 28 February 2007 3 min read
Phil Factor The march of time Tony was a systems analyst and programmer. For many years, he’d worked for a large insurance company in London. He’d... 28 February 2007 3 min read
Phil Factor ‘The C Language is a toy’. A good question to ask in any interview with one of the high and mighty in IT is ‘What is... 05 February 2007 4 min read
Richard Mitchell Which came first the static chicken or the static egg? Came across an interesting thing to do with static constructors in the course of the development of ANTS Profiler 3.... 24 January 2007 2 min read
Bart Read **SQL Prompt 3 Released** We’re very pleased to be able to announce the release of SQL Prompt 3. Get it here: http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Prompt/index.htm We’ve fixed... 22 January 2007 1 min read
Phil Factor Click-A-Crematorium During the last dotcom boom, I had a most agreeable job advising investment bankers on the value of some of... 21 January 2007 5 min read
Richard Mitchell How many 64bit coders does it take to screw in a lightbulb? 1050 – or thereabouts. OK I must admit that’s not entirely the question, but it is however the answer. As... 19 January 2007 2 min read
Phil Factor The TSQL of Verticons and Anime Emoticons Well there I was trying to think of an idea for a blog (u_u) when it suddenly occurred to me... 09 January 2007 2 min read
Jesse Liberty Times have changed When I was a kid my dad told me “nope, no TV when I was a boy, crystal radio. We... 02 January 2007 1 min read
Jesse Liberty Next column: the tradeoff between innovation and a constantly changing environment The following message was posted to my web log on O’Reilly… Learning new tech. is fun – However, we have... 02 January 2007 2 min read
Jesse Liberty Free Video on Ajax Self promotion warning I’ve just posted a 15 minute quick video on AJAX technology. Now, to be up front, the... 02 January 2007 1 min read
Phil Factor Old Philip Factor’s Almanac My annual new-year’s present to the SQL Server community is the Philip Factor Almanac of Prophesies for the coming year.... 28 December 2006 2 min read
