Richard Morris Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell: Geeks of the Week Learning .NET doesn't have to be dull: not when there are geeks like like Carl Fraklin and Richard Campbell with... 13 September 2010 12 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
Richard Morris Josef Richberg: DBA of the Day As the winner of the Exceptional DBA Awards 2010 is announced, we take a moment to recognize last year's winner... 20 August 2010 15 min read
Bob Cramblitt Tracy Hamlin, Exceptional DBA of 2010, on what it means to go the extra mile Tracy Hamlin has been elected by judges and the SQL Server community as the Exceptional DBA of 2010. The annual... 18 August 2010 6 min read
Richard Morris Grady Booch: Geek of the Week Grady Booch is probably best known for being one of the original developers of the Unified Modelling Language (UML). He... 09 August 2010 13 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
Richard Morris Roy Fielding: Geek of the Week Almost certainly, you use the results of Roy Fielding's work every day. After all, he was one of the principal... 02 August 2010 14 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
Richard Morris Don Woods: Geek of the Week Of all the original thinkers in IT, few are as original or as amusing as Don Woods. INTERCAL, Colossal Cave... 13 July 2010 11 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
Richard Morris Tom Kyte: Geek of the Week Tom Kyte's contribution to the AskTom column and site over ten years has been outstanding. Much of what he says... 24 June 2010 20 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
Richard Morris Giancarlo Niccolai: Geek of the Week Falcon isn't exactly new. It is a scripting language that is designed with a number of programming paradigms for multi-threaded... 07 June 2010 13 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
Richard Morris Erland Sommarskog: DBA of the Day Erland is best known for his famous SQL Server site http://www.sommarskog.se/. It is plain, it has eight articles in it,... 26 May 2010 14 min read
Richard Morris Brian Kernighan: Geek of the Week When anyone mentions 'Kernighan and Ritchie', we all know what they are referring to: that brief book that introduced the... 19 May 2010 13 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
Richard Morris Chuck Esterbrook: Geek of the Week The Cobra Programming Language is an exciting new general-purpose Open-source language for .NET or Mono, which features unit tests, contracts,... 26 April 2010 13 min read
