Tony Davis Good beer in unexpected places As part of an occasional series on odd places to get good beer, on Friday last week Red Gate sent... 07 July 2006 2 min read
Damon Armstrong In Loo of Technology I can imagine how the conversation must have gone. A slick salesman stood in the board room staring down a... 03 July 2006 3 min read
Phil Factor Third-party tools for the Database developer I suspect that many database developers use other applications to extend the use of the SQL Server system. I like... 28 June 2006 5 min read
Dominick Reed War correspondant At times, Red gate is a dangerous place to work. It’s not that the volcano in the first floor meeting... 28 June 2006 2 min read
Damon Armstrong Tools: RAD Regular Expression Designer The regular expression engine in .NET is an awesome technology for text processing and string manipulation and is definitely one... 28 June 2006 2 min read
Damon Armstrong Great Expectations Most bloggers start out with an overly idealistic view that their blog is going to contain Pulitzer quality coverage of... 27 June 2006 2 min read
Tony Davis Tech Ed 2006 Snippets: FoxPro lives In the press room, Mary Jo Foley (from Microsoft Watch) was expounding on how hard it was to predict which... 14 June 2006 1 min read
Tony Davis Tech Ed 2006: Meeting good people on Day 3 I met a lot of good people today at Tech Ed yesterday. I know that may seem a rather trite... 14 June 2006 3 min read
Tony Davis Tech Ed 2006 Beer Break: The Miracle of Science While taking a spot of lunch in Cambridge (Boston), I noticed in my trusty guidebook a place called “The Miracle... 13 June 2006 1 min read
Phil Factor The DBA’s Demise: a recitation. On a doorway in DoverI once stumbled overa programmer wrapped in a sheetThis poor prostrate nerddidn’t utter a word as... 13 June 2006 1 min read
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
