Tony Davis How should you layout code? It is strange to see the heat generated over arguments about how code should be formatted. With Visual Studio, of... 27 February 2008 4 min read
Tony Davis SQL Server Diagnostics SQL Server diagnostics are a mess. To monitor the well-being of a server, you need to be able to inspect... 12 February 2008 3 min read
Tony Davis TSQL and the Tower of Babel It is always a bit of a strain to program in several languages at once. A simple task like writing... 08 January 2008 3 min read
Tony Davis LINQ and vNext The history of IT is littered with the corpses of software companies that assumed that a solution that worked well... 15 November 2007 3 min read
Tony Davis What are the most innovative .NET tools? We all have our favourite websites. Not the ones we read as part of our job, but the ones we... 31 October 2007 2 min read
Tony Davis Registering for PASS: the deadly game MONDAY, 17 September 2007 On a slightly overcast Denver Monday morning, I strolled into the Colorado Convention Centre, intent on... 18 September 2007 5 min read
Tony Davis Competition: The Great Advances in SQL Server The real advances in IT are seldom the ones that are heralded by great noise or media hype. So many... 30 May 2007 1 min read
Tony Davis PASS 2006: Still giving power to Microsoft people Well, no-one can accuse Microsoft of giving out mixed messages. The framework for Steve Ballmer’s keynote this morning was exactly... 16 November 2006 4 min read
Tony Davis Simple Talk at SQL PASS I just wanted to provide everyone with a “heads-up” on Simple-Talk’s plans for SQL PASS in Seattle. If you’re at... 06 November 2006 3 min read
Tony Davis The Joy of Simple Talk Editorial Meetings Phil Factor’s recent blog on The Joy of IT Meetings contains a lot of good advice, but if you really... 19 September 2006 2 min read
Tony Davis Developer vs. Tester vs. PM In a recent blog, Todd Bishop highlighted the fact that Microsoft had hired “more than 10,000 people worldwide in the fiscal... 16 August 2006 4 min read
Tony Davis Beer and victory celebrations During the recent World Cup a couple of my friends in the US sent me this clip from an English... 12 July 2006 3 min read
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
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 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
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
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
Tony Davis SQL Bundle 5: the developer’s perspective Last month saw the release of the SQL Bundle 5. Here, some key members of the Red Gate development team... 17 May 2006 11 min read
