Phil Factor Much ado about Null One of the best ways to test the knowledge of a database programmer is to ask very simple questions. I... 04 December 2006 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Don’t let management architect a solution… I’ve seen many cases where business people and technical people collide. Part of building an effective business requires understanding and... 04 December 2006 1 min read
Jesse Liberty Dictation Software Revisited A number of years ago, I entertained the idea of dictating my articles and or books. Dragon NaturallySpeaking seemed to... 03 December 2006 4 min read
Bart Read A Truly Thread-Safe Event Handler Collection For quite a while after I moved into the world of .NET I was slightly bugged by event registration in... 30 November 2006 10 min read
Jesse Liberty Small technological wonders Obviously, of all the technology that has come along in my lifetime (and there is an awful lot of it)... 27 November 2006 4 min read
Phil Factor The Sayings of Phil Factor “Too many developers run their lives as though there was a celestial ‘Undo’ button.” “The IT Manager’s job is to... 27 November 2006 3 min read
Claire Brooking Code Red: database missing in action! Whoops. You scratch your head and wince as you peer at the screen through closed hands… You just accidentally deleted... 24 November 2006 2 min read
Bart Read OK dude, cut the bull – where *IS* SQL Prompt 3? I’ve recently become conscious of how much I’ve started sounding like the guys over at 3D Realms who are now... 24 November 2006 2 min read
James Moore The Managed Stack Explorer Its always nice as a developer when you find a new tool to make your life easier – understanding what... 23 November 2006 2 min read
Jesse Liberty November 22 some dates simply should not pass without mention. In my life those include november 22 (1963) and september 11 (2001).… 22 November 2006 1 min read
Phil Factor The Right to Advertise When the news broke that Red-Gate had purchased SQLServerCentral, there followed a fascinating, and generally positive debate in one of... 20 November 2006 6 min read
Tony Davis PASS 2006: Still giving power to Microsoft people Well, no-one can accuse Microsoft of giving out mixed messages. The framework for Steve Ballmer’s keynote this morning was exactly... 16 November 2006 4 min read
Phil Factor Confessions of an IT Strategist In the new Simple-Talk spirit of ‘coming out’, I have to confess I used to be a practicing IT strategist.... 16 November 2006 6 min read
Damon Armstrong Mixed Drink Recipe – Bennigan’s Pattio Punch (aka Paddy-O Punch) Simple-Talk is about technology and beer, but we’re going to expand that a bit to include mixed drinks as well. ... 15 November 2006 2 min read
Claire Brooking The road ahead for SQL Compare (with a fine prize on the journey) Jonathan Watts, SQL Compare Product Manager at Red Gate Software, has just let me know that he has released a... 10 November 2006 1 min read
James Moore The four second cutoff There was an article about some research which Akamai has done on user’s experiences of online stores – mainly with... 10 November 2006 1 min read
Claire Brooking Calling all SQL Server database developers… David Atkinson, a product manager at Red Gate Software, is doing some preliminary research around the area of database development... 07 November 2006 1 min read
Tony Davis Simple Talk at SQL PASS I just wanted to provide everyone with a “heads-up” on Simple-Talk’s plans for SQL PASS in Seattle. If you’re at... 06 November 2006 3 min read
Phil Factor The Terror of Technical Tests After all the years I’ve spent working with databases, I am continually shocked by how little I know. The power... 03 November 2006 4 min read
James Moore Enumerating local 64 bit and 32 bit instances of SQL Server When checking for local instances of SQL Server its normally best enumerate the value of the registry key HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftMicrosoft SQL... 02 November 2006 3 min read
