Louis Davidson SQLPASS Submissions So I am a bit hesitant to post this because the past few times I have posted about something I... 06 May 2011 4 min read
Grant Fritchey Emergency Database Restores I was reading a good article by Brent Ozar (blog|twitter) on a DBA Nightmare where I came across this section:... 04 May 2011 3 min read
Grant Fritchey SQL Azure Differential Deployments If you read my other blog, Scary DBA, you may be aware that I’ve been doing a series of experiments... 02 May 2011 3 min read
Grant Fritchey SQL Azure Deployments Over on ScaryDBA.com I posted about the new Data-Tier Application (DAC) and DAC packages (DAC pac) this morning. You might... 25 April 2011 3 min read
Grant Fritchey SQL Azure Backup Have some important information stored out there on the cloud? Want a way to get a copy of it down... 19 April 2011 3 min read
Louis Davidson Going to Plamen Ratchev’s T-SQL 2008 Coding Skills Pre-con — Join Me? This week I signed up for Plamen Ratchev’s PASS SQLRally pre-con, “Maximize Your SQL Server 2008 Coding Skills,” and here’s... 18 April 2011 3 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For a DBA: Failure My family and I enjoy sitting down together to watch the TV show called “Wipeout“. The contestants try to run... 16 April 2011 4 min read
Louis Davidson Chapter 6–Physical Database Creation Basics Or “Finally getting to use SQL Server like the dang name of the book implies” I am smack dab in... 16 April 2011 5 min read
Michael Williamson An Agile House of Stone A couple of weeks ago, Tony discussed why complex databases can’t be created in the Agile way. As someone that... 14 April 2011 4 min read
Andrew Clarke Virtual Irony for Oracle Where’s Oracle VM 3, and why should you be waiting for it? Here lies a puzzling story. On May 13,... 12 April 2011 3 min read
Louis Davidson Big League Technical Staff So I was blissfully reading the twitter feed when @Tim_Mitchell tweeting the following article Consultants are pros, while corporate IT... 12 April 2011 4 min read
Louis Davidson The Process of Changing the Collation For a Database and Objects Note: This is a “classic” post lightly edited that I wrote a while back and a reader asked about it.... 08 April 2011 6 min read
Damon Armstrong Enabling Web Editor Support in Class Library Projects One of the things that has bothered me for a while is that it’s tough to edit web files (.aspx... 08 April 2011 1 min read
Grant Fritchey Learning Stuff Yeah, I work for Red Gate. For some reason people seem to think that means I know everything there is... 08 April 2011 3 min read
Richard Muscat Design Reboot: 10 things to kick-start User Experience design Red Gate is a very UX-centric organisation but for one reason or another one of our divisions was short of... 06 April 2011 1 min read
Jonathan Allen 11 word story meme Attend SQL Bits, Hope to come back smarter, Prove it to your Boss. I hope a haiku fits in with... 04 April 2011 1 min read
Phil Factor A brief nod at reality: Who was that masked man anyway? A database chum recently told me that he was giving up the drudgery of being a front-line DBA in order... 04 April 2011 7 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA: Adventurousness This post (hopefully obviously) was my April Fool’s day post. I assume that was quite obvious as everything in this... 01 April 2011 4 min read
Tony Davis An Agile House of Straw The ideal Agile application developer welcomes changing requirements, even late in development. The DBA or Database Developer doesn’t. Why is... 31 March 2011 3 min read
Jonathan Allen Comments – What’s that?!! LiveJournal Tags: tsql,comments,tips and tricks,how to This blog entry is not one of mine. I have the pleasure of sitting... 31 March 2011 3 min read
