Damon Armstrong IE HTML Debugger Causing Issues with IE Enhanced Security In an effort to debug a Silverlight component on a page in SharePoint I opened the Developer Tools in Internet... 07 March 2012 1 min read
Damon Armstrong Showing "Failed" for a SharePoint 2010 Timer Job Status I have been working with a bunch of custom timer jobs for last month. Basically, I’m processing a bunch of... 05 March 2012 1 min read
Tony Davis A Community Cure for a String Splitting Headache A heartwarming tale of dogged perseverance and Community collaboration to solve some SQL Server string-related headaches. Michael J Swart posted... 02 March 2012 2 min read
Simon Cooper Oh no! My padding’s invalid! Recently, I’ve been doing some work involving cryptography, and encountered the standard .NET CryptographicException: ‘Padding is invalid and cannot be... 28 February 2012 3 min read
Other Phil Factor in Other Database Migration Scripts: Getting from place A to place B We’ll be looking at a typical database ‘migration’ script which uses an unusual technique to migrate existing ‘de-normalised’ data into... 28 February 2012 8 min read
Grant Fritchey Tuning Red Gate: #4 of Some First time connecting to these servers directly (keys to the kingdom, bwa-ha-ha-ha. oh, excuse me), so I’m going to take... 23 February 2012 4 min read
Simon Cooper Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentDictionary Using locks to implement a thread-safe collection is rather like using a sledgehammer – unsubtle, easy to understand, and tends... 22 February 2012 11 min read
Grant Fritchey Tuning Red Gate: #3 of Lots I’m drilling down into the metrics about SQL Server itself available to me in the Analysis tab of SQL Monitor... 22 February 2012 4 min read
Damon Armstrong SharePoint Scenario Framework I’ve worked with SharePoint for some time now, and I like to think that I know all there is to... 21 February 2012 1 min read
Red and the Community Red Gate’s on the road in 2012 – Will you catch us? Annabel Bradford, our Communities and Events Manager, tells all about her experience of our 1st SQL Saturday of the year.... 21 February 2012 3 min read
Phil Factor Normalisation and ‘Anima notitia copia’ (Soul of the Database) (A Guest Editorial for Simple-Talk) The other day, I was staring at the sys.syslanguages table in SQL Server with slightly-raised... 17 February 2012 3 min read
Michaela Murray ANTS Performance Profiler 7.0 has been released! Please join me in welcoming ANTS Performance Profiler 7 to the world of .NET. ANTS Performance Profiler is a .NET... 16 February 2012 1 min read
Phil Factor Curing the Database-Application mismatch If an application requires access to a database, then you have to be able to deploy it so as to... 14 February 2012 6 min read
Grant Fritchey Tuning Red Gate: #2 of Many In the last installment, I used the SQL Monitor tool to get a snapshot view of the current state of... 13 February 2012 4 min read
Phil Factor Hadoop, NOSQL, and the Relational Model (Guest Editorial for the IT Pro/SysAdmin Newsletter) Whereas Relational Databases fit the world of commerce like a glove, it is... 10 February 2012 3 min read
Grant Fritchey Tuning Red Gate: #1 of Many Everyone runs into performance issues at some point. Same thing goes for Red Gate software. Some of our internal systems... 09 February 2012 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Getting the URL to the Content Type Hub Programmatically in SharePoint 2010 Many organizations use the content-type hub to manage content-types in their SharePoint 2010 environment. As a developer in these types... 07 February 2012 1 min read
Red and the Community Red Gate and the Community I was lucky enough to join the Communities team in April 2011, having worked in the equally awesome (but more... 07 February 2012 2 min read
Tony Davis To Not CI to Eye Many developers, including Troy Hunt, here on Simple-Talk, have argued persuasively that each database developer in a team needs to... 03 February 2012 3 min read
red@work Red Gate does Burns Night 2012 Whilst we have our fair share, as a company, of native Scots, somehow none of them managed to attend Red... 02 February 2012 3 min read
