Tony Davis Best Practice and Judgement Until the recent promise of generally-available broadband, the industry had to wrestle with the task of providing a solution to... 19 October 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis Oracle whistles a different tune It is sometimes refreshing to crawl out from the hothouse of SQL Server to take a look at other platforms.... 01 October 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis The VSS Mess Microsoft’s Visual SourceSafe (VSS) will soon cease to exist. Mainstream support will end in April 2011, and so users will... 02 September 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis Oslo at rock bottom Back in 2003, Microsoft launched a project that they hoped would “capture people’s ideas, requirements and hopes for software” and... 20 August 2010 2 min read
Tony Davis Virtue in the Virtual Everyone knows the difference between a live SQL Server database file and a backup file. However, it seems that this... 06 August 2010 3 min read
Andrew Clarke WebMatrix and SQL Server Compact Edition. Something for the rest of us? WebMatrix, currently in beta, is Microsoft’s newest initiative aimed at those of us who take no pleasure in using the... 23 July 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis The Land of Milk, Honey…and Blancmange For many migrant Oracle DBAs, SQL Server, or at least its support structure, must seem like the Promised Land: here... 25 June 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis DAC pack up all your troubles Visual Studio 2010, or perhaps its apparently-forthcoming sister, “SQL Studio“, is being geared up to become the natural way for... 09 June 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis Sweet and Sour Source Control Most database developers don’t use Source Control. A recent anonymous poll on SQL Server Central asked its readers “Which Version... 27 May 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis Access Denied When Microsoft executives wake up in the night screaming, I suspect they are having a nightmare about their own version... 13 May 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis Need to Know Sometimes, I wonder whether writers of documentation, tutorials and articles stop to ask themselves one very important question: Does the... 29 April 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis From NaN to Infinity…and Beyond! It is hard to believe that it was once possible to corrupt a SQL Server Database by storing perfectly normal... 13 April 2010 4 min read
Tony Davis The clock hands of the buffer cache Over a leisurely beer at our local pub, the Waggon and Horses, Phil Factor was holding forth on the esoteric,... 01 April 2010 4 min read
Tony Davis On Writing Blogs Why are so many blogs about IT so difficult to read? Over at SQLServerCentral.com, we do a special subscription-only newsletter... 19 March 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis Music before bells and whistles Why is it that Windows has so much difficulty in finding content on its file system? This is not an... 04 March 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis Inappropriate Updates? A recent Simple-talk article by Kathi Kellenberger dissected the fastest SQL solution, submitted by Peter Larsson as part of Phil... 18 February 2010 4 min read
Tony Davis A Plea for Plain English The English language has, within a lifetime, emerged as the ubiquitous ‘international language’ of scientific, political and technical communication. On... 05 February 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis Reckless Drivers When I first joined the industry in the late 90’s, Microsoft was in the process of shunting the ODBC driver... 07 January 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis Paradoxical T-SQL I’ve always taken comfort in the fact that T-SQL belongs to an enlightened age of computer languages in which the... 11 December 2009 2 min read
Tony Davis SQL Server Sheep Ticks The doggedness with which certain SQL Server “myths” cling to the coat of the SQL Server community is really quite... 28 October 2009 3 min read
