Louis Davidson A problem I must solve about speaking So I am back hotel (yeah, not I won’t be “back home” until the 4th most likely) after speaking in... 27 June 2010 4 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
Bart Read .NET Reflector Support: Does the .NET Reflector Visual Studio add-in work with Visual Studio Express? Unfortunately the answer to this is no: the .NET Reflector add-in does not support Express editions of Visual Studio, and... 22 June 2010 1 min read
Laila Lotfi Will HTML5 make Silverlight redundant? One of the great features of Adobe AIR v2 that was launched this month was its support for some of... 18 June 2010 2 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
Jonathan Allen An update process that is even worse than Windows updates I’m sorry EA but your game update process stinks. I am not a hardcore gamer but I own a Playstation3... 09 June 2010 3 min read
Louis Davidson Perspective in Modeling Your task, model a database that represents a suburban block. You survey the area, and see the following houses (pictures... 08 June 2010 4 min read
Phil Factor Justifiable Perks. I was once the director of a start-up IT Company, and had the task of recruiting a proportion of the... 07 June 2010 4 min read
Simon Cooper Developing Schema Compare for Oracle (Part 6): 9i Query Performance All throughout the EAP and beta versions of Schema Compare for Oracle, our main request was support for Oracle 9i.... 03 June 2010 6 min read
Michael Francis Overload Avoidance A little under a year ago, Matt Simmons wrote a rather reflective article about his terrifying brush with stress-induced ill... 03 June 2010 3 min read
Jonathan Allen Watching the oil slick Having dominated the news for the last month or more BP’s problems with one of their oil exploration endeavours is... 02 June 2010 5 min read
Jonathan Allen Using LogParser – part 2 PersonAddress.csv SalesOrderDetail.tsv In part 1 of this series we downloaded and installed LogParser and used it to list data from... 02 June 2010 5 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
Damon Armstrong SharePoint and COMException (0x80004005): Cannot complete this action I ran into a small issue today working on a deployment. We were moving a custom ASP.NET control from my... 26 May 2010 2 min read
Damon Armstrong Security Issues When Creating Pages in SharePoint I was speaking (or rather IM’ing) with Ben Collins a while back and he came across an interesting problem that... 25 May 2010 1 min read
Jonathan Allen Using LogParser – part 1 I have mentioned LogParser before on my blog and have decided to create a series of walk-through style articles to... 24 May 2010 4 min read
Bart Read Red Gate .NET Tool Support for Visual Studio 2010 24 hours after posting my last blog I realised I’d neglected to mention Visual Studio 2010. I must have hit... 21 May 2010 1 min read
Jonathan Allen How do you use blog content? Do you write a blog, have you ever thought about it? I think people fall into one of a few... 20 May 2010 4 min read
Clive Tong F# and the rose-tinted reflection We’re already seeing increasing use of many cores on client desktops. It is a change that has been long predicted.... 20 May 2010 4 min read
Simon Cooper Why enumerator structs are a really bad idea (redux) My previous blog post went into some detail as to why calling MoveNext on a BCL generic collection enumerator didn’t... 20 May 2010 2 min read
