It’s that time again. Time to leave the comfy confines of the office, brave the real world and meet the most important people who work for Red Gate: our users. With a bunch of design ideas stashed on a laptop, we venture off to learn exactly how wrong we’ve got it. I have to admit, … Read more
This is the first post in my Red Gate Blog so I think I’d better introduce myself a little bit. I’m the main programmmer on the SQL Data Compare engine one of our suite of best selling SQL Bundle tools, currently I’m working on the latest version which will support the new data types in … Read more
While reading through the excellent http://blogs.msdn.com/ I noticed this post by Todd Carter talking abount ASP.NET and SQL Server Performance, in it he talks about compiler locks slowing down stored proceedure execution. Aparently this occurs when The user that runs the stored procedure is not the owner of the procedure AND The stored procedure name is not fully qualified … Read more
David C sent me an interesting link about the breaking changes between Beta 2 and the RTM, you can find the original summary at The Server Side.NET and Microsoft’s in-depth document here [.doc… Read more
Last week I found out that sometimes XP SP1 dlls are labelled as xpsp2. A client had DLLs that were labelled xpsp2 for example comctl32.dll 6.0 (xpsp2.050831-1533) c:windowswinsxsx86_microsoft.windows .common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600. 1740_x-ww_7cb8ab44comctl32.dll However just because the DLLs are labelled xpsp2 this does not mean that they are Service Packl 2.Infact they are late XP Service Pack 1 DLLs!… Read more
Category: SQL Server internalsSQL Server versions: 7, 2000, 2005Level: Advanced Well, this week I spent some time playing with defaults, and here is just a small taster of what SQL Compare version 4 does for you. Defaults are a nice thing in SQL. One can assign defaults to table columns, and when one does not … Read more
Here is a list of some of the windows key board short cuts (thanks to Tilman): Keyboard Meaning Windows key Start menu Windows key + D Minimize all windows to Desktop Windows key + D Restore minimized windows Windows key + E Windows Explorer Windows key + L Lock Desktop Windows key … Read more
Thursday 3rd November is World Usability Day. A day that is hugely anticipated. Millions will take to the streets, trying to catch a glimpse of their favourite usability guru, sagely administering sermons on the woes of unusable products. I can see it now – it’ll generate almost as much fervour as the results for the … Read more
It occasionally strikes me as hilarious that in the 21st millenium with Windows Vista near on the horizon with all kinds of spangly UI likely to result, we’re not only still using some of the oldest Windows UI primitives every day, but encountering problems using them. You’d think that we might have got it all … Read more
Ever heard of NEDS? It’s another handy acronym in a world full of HIMPERs (An acronym I just made up, but it looks pretty convincing if you ask me). So NEDS stands for: New Economy Depression Syndrome and it’s something that is apparently increasing in the hectic lives we lead. Gone are the days when … Read more
I had a feeling I’d be writing quite a few entries like this, but I must confess that even I would have been surprised if you’d told me I’d be writing #2 a mere two days after #1. So what is it this time? Well, it’s StackOverflowException. Jeff Richter has this to say about StackOverflowException … Read more
We’ve been working on a new version of our DTS Compare tool for a couple of months now, and it’s starting to look quite good. I’ve been working on the snapshot functionality today, which allows a user to take a snapshot of the state of all the DTS packages on a given instance of SQL … Read more
Every now and then I come across something slightly bizarre in .NET, so I’ve decided to write about it, as much as anything else because I’m aware of having come across quite a few things like this, but find myself unable to remember what half of them are, so it might prove to be a … Read more
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