Phil Factor Sir! My dog ate my database. In asking various colleagues about the disasters or near disasters they have had with databases, I find to my astonishment... 09 February 2006 3 min read
Dan Archer Trivial Persuits Once again I find myself penning a missive on trivia, rather than matters of import. Still, now we’re here… Regular... 07 February 2006 7 min read
Dominick Reed It all went wrong Things weren’t going swimmingly. In fact, you could say it was an unmitigated disaster. That might sound overly dramatic though,... 04 February 2006 6 min read
David Connell Performance and Multiple Assigment in C# I was recently thinking if I really liked to use the Multiple assignment in ‘C#’ or if it was less... 25 January 2006 2 min read
Phil Factor "Documentation is the castor oil of programming" As prizes for the little occasional competitions on this BLog, we will be giving out copies of one or other... 23 January 2006 4 min read
Phil Factor A SQL Limerick It wasn’t my idea at all. However someone set me the challenge of writing executable code that rhymed and scanned... 13 January 2006 2 min read
Dominick Reed The usability curse When I did my degree, nobody told me that my life would forever be cursed. Not once was I taken... 09 January 2006 3 min read
Bart Read .NET Oddities #4 This is sheer genius: System.Math.Sin( double a )System.Math.Cos( double a )…etc all take an angle in radians as their argument.... 09 January 2006 1 min read
David Connell Adding your own .NET exceptions to Visual Studio You can easily add your own exceptions into Visual Studio so that you do not need to add them in... 09 January 2006 1 min read
Phil Factor Unreadable code Producing unreadable Transact SQL is something of an art form. We all know that the best Transact SQL Style is... 04 January 2006 2 min read
Bart Read Happy New Year everyone! Er… so what exactly was I working on two weeks ago?… 03 January 2006 1 min read
Lionel Clarke A Sql Game There seems to be computer game written in almost every language out there but I haven’t yet found one written... 30 December 2005 3 min read
Dan Archer Super size me Having fixed all the outstanding “Oh my [deity/dictator of choice], we have to fix this now or people will be... 12 December 2005 9 min read
Richard Mitchell New Check for Updates Client too Well not only have we got the currently running SQL Data Compare Beta – well SQL Tools beta really but... 09 December 2005 2 min read
Dominick Reed Filtering foibles There are times when you’re striving for a usable design, and no matter what you try, your attempt just fails... 08 December 2005 2 min read
Helen Joyce Count down to SQL Backup 4.0 release We are now ‘feature complete’ and only have a few weeks until we have code lock off. The beta program... 07 December 2005 2 min read
Dan Archer Cowboy filenames If you ask me, and I take it as implicit by your visit that you do (sorry about that, but... 02 December 2005 5 min read
David Connell Mapping of .NET Assembly attributes to File Version Information Attributes. .NET automatically generates a FileInformation resource when building the assembly. Here is a mapping of the .NET attribute to the... 30 November 2005 1 min read
Richard Mitchell The new SQL Data Compare beta The new SQL Data Compare beta is about to be released and I hope you all get a chance to... 29 November 2005 2 min read
