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
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
