Richard Morris Dave Moore: DBA of the Day Dave Moore is one of the world's top DBAs and best-known for being the architect of the famous DBXray(tm) product... 17 November 2009 7 min read
Richard Morris Simon Peyton Jones: Geek of the Week Simon Peyton Jones is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research's lab in Cambridge. Although he is best known as the... 13 November 2009 11 min read
Richard Morris Interview with the Scary DBA – Grant Fritchey For our first feature on working DBAs and their lives, we chose Grant Fritchey, the self-styled Scary DBA, who has been... 30 October 2009 12 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
Richard Morris Tucker Taft: Geek of the Week What do military networks and a 19th Century Difference Engine have in common? Tucker Taft; industry leader in compiler construction... 28 October 2009 15 min read
Tony Davis The SSRS 2008 Minefield One of the big advances in Microsoft’s “2008 platform”, with regard to Reporting Services, was that there would be a... 16 October 2009 3 min read
Richard Morris Geek of the Week: Joe Celko Joe Celko, the Database Developer and writer from Austin Texas, is not a man to mince his words. His encyclopedic... 16 October 2009 12 min read
Tony Davis Index Fragmentation Anxiety: a Doctor Speaks Do you suffer from Index Anxiety? Do you lie awake, worrying about whether you are neglecting to defrag your indexes?... 01 October 2009 3 min read
Richard Morris Stephen Curtis Johnson: Geek of the Week Stephen Johnson, one of the team that developed UNIX, can claim to be the man who originally wrote the software... 01 October 2009 11 min read
Richard Morris Walter Bright: Geek of the Week After developing the first native C++ compiler, the Zortech C++, and writing the Symantec Java compiler, Walter Bright created D... 01 October 2009 8 min read
Tony Davis SQL Server Rootkits: Security Scare or Nightmare? How many DBAs, I wonder, really know how to go about detecting potential rootkits in their SQL Servers? To install... 17 September 2009 3 min read
Richard Morris Alan Kay: Geek of the Week The development of Object-oriented programming, the windowing User-interface, Ethernet and the Laptop all had essential contributions from a brilliant, visionary,... 14 September 2009 11 min read
Tony Davis The ORM Brouhaha What is wrong with benchmarking software? Not much, you’d have thought. A while back, Laila Lotfi wrote an editorial on... 03 September 2009 3 min read
Bob Cramblitt An interview with Josef Richberg – The Exceptional DBA of 2009 Josef Richberg, a DBA with HarperCollins Publishers, has been selected by judges and the DBA community as winner of 2009's... 03 September 2009 8 min read
Richard Morris Luca Cardelli: Geek of the Week Luca Cardelli is probably best known for Polyphonic C# and Biocomputing, but he has designed a number of experimental languages... 02 September 2009 7 min read
Tony Davis In Defence of Defensive programming The relational data model is 40 years old this month, and SQL is not much younger. By any standards, it... 21 August 2009 3 min read
Richard Morris Sir Tony Hoare: Geek of the Week After inventing the QuickSort algorithm, and designing the compiler for the Algol 60 programming language, Tony Hoare went on to... 18 August 2009 14 min read
Tony Davis Database Trampled by Godzilla View For the older generation of SQL developers, discouraging the use of views is tantamount to accusing a respectable aging dowager... 06 August 2009 3 min read
Richard Morris Chuck Moore: Geek of the Week Charles Moore is one of the greatest ever programmers. The 'Forth' language he invented is still in use today, particularly... 05 August 2009 13 min read
Tony Davis The Horse’s Mouth It was one of those wonderful moments when a task that was, a moment ago, frustrating and nigh-impossible, suddenly became... 23 July 2009 3 min read
