Tony Davis PASS 13 Dispatches: moving to the cloud PASS Summit 13, Day 1 keynote by Quentin Clarke and we’re hearing about “redefiniing mission critical in the cloud”. With... 16 October 2013 3 min read
Tony Davis PASS 13 Dispatches: Memory Optimized = On I’m at the PASS Summit in Charlotte for the Day 1 keynote by Quentin Clarke, Corporate VP of the data... 16 October 2013 2 min read
Roger Hart Windows Phone 8, possible tablets and what the latest update might mean Microsoft have just announced an update to Windows Phone 8. As one of the five, maybe six people who actually... 14 October 2013 3 min read
Jess Nickson Using Deployment Manager One of the teams at Red Gate has been working very hard on a new product: Deployment Manager. Deployment Manager... 14 October 2013 11 min read
Louis Davidson How to Design a Relational Database; PASS Precon Swag and it’s “Symbolism” Update! 10 more books added to the cadre from my friends at Red-Gate. With less than a week to go,... 10 October 2013 6 min read
Tony Davis It’s the thought that counts… I recently finished editing a book called Tribal SQL, and it was a fantastic experience. It’s a community-sourced book written... 09 October 2013 3 min read
Louis Davidson SQL In The City Charlotte – Fundamentals of Database Design Next Monday, October 14, at Red-Gate’s SQL In The City conference in Charlotte, NC (one day before PASS), I will... 09 October 2013 3 min read
Ben Emmett New database profiling support in ANTS Performance Profiler In May last year, the ANTS Performance Profiler team added the ability to profile database requests your application makes to... 07 October 2013 2 min read
Ben Emmett ANTS Memory Profiler 8 released! I’m excited to say that we’ve just released ANTS Memory Profiler 8! The big news is support for profiling .NET’s... 02 October 2013 2 min read
Jess Nickson NHibernate and Stored Procedures in C# I was recently trying and failing to set up NHibernate (v1.2) in an ASP.NET project. The aim was to execute... 27 September 2013 3 min read
Phil Factor Getting to the Commissars Recently, I’ve been told, repeatedly, that few organizations have a clear and consistent idea of what they want from an... 26 September 2013 3 min read
Rodney Landrum 4 Future Inventions We Will Wonder How We Lived Without I have always wanted to be a Science Fiction writer. I am enthralled by the invention and imagination of writers... 26 September 2013 4 min read
Louis Davidson Why We Write #9 – An Interview With Laerte Junior Poltronieri For my next interview, I am going to a person whom I do not know all that well, but have... 16 September 2013 8 min read
Jonathan Allen SQL Server Policy Based Management – Creating a custom condition I have recently been looking at Policy Based Management with a view to using it to rapidly review servers in... 16 September 2013 5 min read
Phil Factor Methodology Agnostic I once went for an interview at one of those software houses in the east end of London, serving the... 12 September 2013 3 min read
Louis Davidson Relational Database Design Pre-Con at PASS Well, here we go again. I am making my final preparations again for my “How to Design a Relational Database”... 09 September 2013 4 min read
Louis Davidson PASS/SQL In The City Are Coming Up Very Soon… Every September for the past 12 years, not only does summer slowly come to an end, but it is the... 05 September 2013 5 min read
Roger Hart Pebbles and Gears and market share – what’s up with smart watches? To nobody’s enormous surprise, I’ve spent a chunk of this morning bickering on Twitter. In this case, largely in the... 05 September 2013 5 min read
Louis Davidson Why We Write #8 – An Interview With Stacia Misner Today’s interviewee is someone who is quite a prolific writer, with her most recent book being Microsoft SQL Server 2012... 27 August 2013 8 min read
Nirmal Sharma Querying Any Registry Information on Remote Computers via Script You can automate a number of manual tasks using scripts, a command line operation is always faster than a GUI... 22 August 2013 5 min read