Simon Cooper Why enumerator structs are a really bad idea If you’ve ever poked around the .NET class libraries in Reflector, you probably would have noticed that the generic collection... 19 May 2010 5 min read
Jonathan Allen Is this table replicated? Another in the potentially quite sporadic series of I need to do … but I cant find it on the... 17 May 2010 2 min read
Roger Hart Pub banter – content strategy at the ballot box? Last night, I was challenged to explain (and defend) content strategy. Three sheets to the wind after a pub quiz,... 14 May 2010 2 min read
Tony Davis Access Denied When Microsoft executives wake up in the night screaming, I suspect they are having a nightmare about their own version... 13 May 2010 3 min read
Jonathan Allen Welcome to Jackstown I live in a small town, the population count isn’t that great but let me introduce you to some of... 12 May 2010 5 min read
Michael Francis F1 Pit Pragmatics “I hate computers. No, really, I hate them. I love the communications they facilitate, I love the conveniences they provide... 07 May 2010 4 min read
Simon Cooper Developing Schema Compare for Oracle (Part 5): Query Snapshots If you’ve emailed us about a bug you’ve encountered with the EAP or beta versions of Schema Compare for Oracle,... 30 April 2010 6 min read
Tony Davis Need to Know Sometimes, I wonder whether writers of documentation, tutorials and articles stop to ask themselves one very important question: Does the... 29 April 2010 3 min read
Louis Davidson Can you over-normalize? Now, don’t get too excited and grab your pitchforks and torches. Clearly, it is extremely possible to overdo something in... 29 April 2010 5 min read
Jason Crease Breaking through the class sealing Do you understand ‘sealing’ in C#? Somewhat? Anyway, here’s the lowdown. I’ve done this article from a C# perspective, but... 26 April 2010 5 min read
Damon Armstrong Thoughts on C# Extension Methods I’m not a huge fan of extension methods. When they first came out, I remember seeing a method on an... 23 April 2010 4 min read
Louis Davidson Do DBA’s not desire sleep? Or any support people for that matter. I constantly hear people having to support this, support that, wearing the “beeper”,... 23 April 2010 4 min read
Laerte Junior Encrypting your SQL Server Passwords in PowerShell A couple of months ago, a friend of mine who is now bewitched by the seemingly supernatural abilities of PowerShell... 20 April 2010 3 min read
Simon Cooper Developing Schema Compare for Oracle (Part 2): Dependencies In developing Schema Compare for Oracle, one of the issues we came across was the size of the databases. As... 20 April 2010 9 min read
Damon Armstrong Another VSeWSS Error Resolved (List Template not installed on Farm) Ran into a minor snag today trying to deploy a project with VSeWSS 1.3 – during the deployment it gave... 19 April 2010 1 min read
Alex Davies A better way to do concurrent programming Programming to take advantage of multicore processors is hard. If you let multiple threads access the same memory, bad things... 18 April 2010 1 min read
Simon Cooper Developing Schema Compare for Oracle (Part 1) SQL Compare is one of Red Gate’s most successful SQL Server tools; it allows developers and DBAs to compare and... 15 April 2010 8 min read
Roger Hart Video games, content strategy, and failure – oh my. Last night was the CS London group’s event Content Strategy, Manhattan Style. Yes, it’s a terrible title, feeling like a... 14 April 2010 5 min read
Tony Davis From NaN to Infinity…and Beyond! It is hard to believe that it was once possible to corrupt a SQL Server Database by storing perfectly normal... 13 April 2010 4 min read
Phil Factor Exitus Acta Probat: The Post-Processing Module Sometimes, one has to make certain ethical compromises to ensure the success of a corporate IT project. Exitus Acta Probat... 09 April 2010 4 min read
