Lionel Clarke A Sql Game There seems to be computer game written in almost every language out there but I haven’t yet found one written... 30 December 2005 3 min read
Dan Archer Super size me Having fixed all the outstanding “Oh my [deity/dictator of choice], we have to fix this now or people will be... 12 December 2005 9 min read
Richard Mitchell New Check for Updates Client too Well not only have we got the currently running SQL Data Compare Beta – well SQL Tools beta really but... 09 December 2005 2 min read
Dominick Reed Filtering foibles There are times when you’re striving for a usable design, and no matter what you try, your attempt just fails... 08 December 2005 2 min read
Helen Joyce Count down to SQL Backup 4.0 release We are now ‘feature complete’ and only have a few weeks until we have code lock off. The beta program... 07 December 2005 2 min read
Dan Archer Cowboy filenames If you ask me, and I take it as implicit by your visit that you do (sorry about that, but... 02 December 2005 5 min read
David Connell Mapping of .NET Assembly attributes to File Version Information Attributes. .NET automatically generates a FileInformation resource when building the assembly. Here is a mapping of the .NET attribute to the... 30 November 2005 1 min read
Richard Mitchell The new SQL Data Compare beta The new SQL Data Compare beta is about to be released and I hope you all get a chance to... 29 November 2005 2 min read
Dominick Reed Cat detective Ahhh… now… er… that shouldn’t happen. Oooh, yup, that’s not at all clear. Purrr, Meow, Purrr. Hmmm… they’re not finding... 25 November 2005 3 min read
Bart Read .NET Oddities #3 OK, so I’ll admit this is a bit cheeky: this entry should almost certainly be .NET Oddities #2a because it’s... 24 November 2005 2 min read
David Connell Wild card registering COM dlls When developing a COM based application sometimes it’s sometimes useful to register all the DLLs/OCX at once.From a command prompt... 23 November 2005 1 min read
David Connell Debugging Arbitrary thread stacks in .NET Check out John Robbins November 05 Bugslayer article.. He has ported his excellent SUPERASSRT code from native C++ into C#.... 23 November 2005 1 min read
Richard Mitchell Type safe collections I must admit that creating a nice type safe collection for a new feature in one of our products took... 23 November 2005 2 min read
Dan Archer Wing Dings Occasionally when developing software you come across really absurd or bizarre bugs. The user interface for the application I’m currently... 22 November 2005 3 min read
James Moore SQL Data Compare: Comparing Views In case you haven’t come across this before you can actually compare two views in SQL Data Compare. The only... 22 November 2005 1 min read
Helen Joyce SQL Backup 4.0 BETA is ready! Phew… on November 15th an email went out to a select group of SQL Server DBA’s, Developers and other potential... 21 November 2005 2 min read
David Connell Always set Warnings as Errors How many of us have developed some code only to find the compiler outputs some warnings such as unused parameter,... 18 November 2005 1 min read
Dominick Reed Humbling times It’s that time again. Time to leave the comfy confines of the office, brave the real world and meet the... 15 November 2005 2 min read
Richard Mitchell Who am I? This is the first post in my Red Gate Blog so I think I’d better introduce myself a little bit.... 15 November 2005 1 min read
James Moore An interesting article about ASP.NET and SQL Server Performance 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... 15 November 2005 1 min read