Dan Archer 1mL Adrenaline, stat It is a balmy summer evening in a suburb of Cambridge, England. Young gentlemen play cricket on the village green.... 12 June 2006 3 min read
Tony Davis Tech Ed 20006: pre-match warm up As an Englishman I’m well used to the experience of leaving some gloriously sun-kissed location and returning home to greyness... 11 June 2006 2 min read
Phil Factor The Stepford Geeks I was getting stuck into writing an article on interviews for IT jobs the other day. You know the sort... 10 June 2006 6 min read
Tony Davis Simple Talk, Live from Tech Ed Boston Tech Ed in Boston is just around the corner and the Red Gate offices are a feverish hive of activity... 07 June 2006 2 min read
Helen Joyce SQL Backup on 64-bit servers The server components of SQL Backup have now been compiled to run on 64-bit versions of SQL Server. The beta (which... 06 June 2006 1 min read
Tony Davis Beer, SQL Server and .NET There is a line in the book “London Fields” where the main character is asked why he only drinks lager... 26 May 2006 3 min read
Phil Factor SprintFfing :Leaves from a programmers notebook: There are dangers to using the xp_sprintf system call in SQL Server 2000. Firstly, it has a 256 character limit,... 17 May 2006 3 min read
Dominick Reed Getting to know you… We’re a friendly bunch here at Red Gate – always looking to make new friends. Whilst it’s true that we... 12 May 2006 2 min read
Dan Archer The game’s afoot I’d like to squeeze in another reference to the Killing Game Show, or other Amiga classics, at this point. I... 10 May 2006 2 min read
András Belokosztolszki Altering CLR assemblies in SQL Server 2005 Category: SQL Server development SQL Server versions: 2005 Level: Advanced SQL Server 2005 introduced support for .Net in SQL Server.... 10 May 2006 4 min read
András Belokosztolszki A reason to avoid sp_rename Category: SQL Server developmentSQL Server versions: 7, 2000, 2005Level: Intermediate Naming stored procedures consistently is part of many organizational policies,... 10 May 2006 2 min read
Phil Factor The Pub Lunch and Programming. “Werry good poer o’ suction, Sammy,” said Mr Weller the elder, looking into the pot, when his first-born had set... 04 May 2006 4 min read
Phil Factor Getting data to the browser Slowly, all the necessary components are slotting into place to allow the developer to bypass the requirement to write traditional... 20 April 2006 4 min read
Phil Factor Selling Oneself Short A long time ago, I was transformed from resolute geek into a salesman. I’d written an application, commissioned by an... 13 April 2006 3 min read
Richard Mitchell What is SQL? OK now to most of you reading this blog, well all 3 of you at least this would seem like... 07 April 2006 2 min read
Richard Mitchell Telekinisis doesn’t exist Me and a few friends went bowling last night which is all well and good but it got me to... 29 March 2006 2 min read
Phil Factor Avoiding the TSQL ‘Convert’ styles. A recent blog was extolling the advantages of being able to use the CLR routines in SQL Server 2005 to... 26 March 2006 2 min read
Phil Factor The Incident of ‘The Two Johns’ -an IT Manager confesses. …in which Phil Factor takes advantage of the cloak of anonymity to confess to an embarassing mistake As an IT... 20 March 2006 5 min read
Helen Joyce SQL Backup 4.0 and beyond Phew…with SQL Backup 4.1 released attention has now turned to supporting 64 bit versions of SQL Server. There is no let... 15 March 2006 1 min read