John Papa Gathering RSS Feeds using Visual Studio and RSS.NET If you would like to learn how to build and customize your very own Windows service to retrieve posts from... 04 May 2007 13 min read
Doug Burns What use is a Development DBA? "I can't help thinking that unless you have a good DBA on a development team and use him or her... 12 April 2007 12 min read
Allen White Automate your Database Maintenance using SMO The most important thing you can do as a database administrator is perform regular database maintenance. This includes regular backups,... 05 April 2007 33 min read
Keith Fletcher Creating Cross Tab Queries and Pivot Tables in SQL For those times when you absolutely, positively got to perform a cross tab query in SQL, Keith Fletcher's T-SQL stored... 27 March 2007 18 min read
Mario Broodbakker SQL Server Wait Events: Taking the Guesswork out of Performance Profiling Measuring what is actually happening is always the best course of action when investigating performance issues on databases, rather than... 22 March 2007 16 min read
Pop Rivett Pop Rivett and the Case of the Rogue SPIDs A process in a complex database occasionally, and apparently randomly, manages to put table locks on vital tables. Several applications... 22 March 2007 6 min read
Steven R. McCabe Exploring LINQ, SQLMetal and SqlTac If you're a .NET developer, working with or without a database on the back-end, your world is about to change.... 15 March 2007 23 min read
Dan Sullivan PowerSMO at Work Part 2 In part 3 of Dan Sullivan's in-depth exploration of PowerSMO, the versatile command line utility for managing SQL Server databases,... 12 March 2007 19 min read
Phil Factor Robyn Page SQL Server Security Workbench Part 1 Robyn Page and Phil Factor present practical T-SQL techniques for controlling access to sensitive information within the database, and preventing... 06 March 2007 17 min read
Phil Factor The March of Technology In which Phil, under the influence of a surfeit of lobster, some fine wine and a large book, conjures up... 28 February 2007 9 min read
Louis Davidson Ten Common Database Design Mistakes If database design is done right, then the development, deployment and subsequent performance in production will give little trouble. A... 26 February 2007 32 min read
Arthur Fuller Database Design: A Point in Time Architecture In most relational database implementations. Update and Delete commands destroy the data that was there prior to their issue. However,... 22 February 2007 19 min read
Dan Sullivan PowerSMO At Work Part I: DBA Scripts and Functions Dan Sullivan delves deeper into PowerSMO, the versatile command line utility for managing SQL Server databases. Using a certificate strategy,... 19 February 2007 22 min read
Phil Factor The Ultimate Excuse Database Is your IT project in trouble? Do you need to create a smokescreen so that no-one can pin the blame... 15 January 2007 11 min read
Scott W. Ambler and Pramod J. Sadalage Refactoring Databases: The Process Database refactoring can greatly improve the efficiency of your database code. However, even a seemingly simple database refactoring such as... 09 January 2007 16 min read
Pop Rivett Pop Rivett and the Suspect Database When a 'torn page' error corrupts a SQL Server database, threatening the survival of some vital data and a mainly... 08 January 2007 6 min read
Richard Mitchell A Database Development Model Using SQL Compare Richard Mitchell and Steven Davidson describe how they used Red Gate's database schema-comparison tool, SQL Compare, to develop the latest... 19 December 2006 9 min read
William Brewer Towards the Self-Documenting SQL Server Database William Brewer investigates an unsung hero in SQL Server, extended properties, and shows how to use them to create self-documenting... 01 December 2006 16 min read
Phil Factor More Database Administration and Development Automation using DMO Phil Factor provides a handy DMO automation toolkit to take care of some core SQL Server administrative tasks.… 04 October 2006 2 min read
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Kirk Haselden Author and SQL Server development manager, Kirk Haselden, talks about SSIS, gruelling interviews on an empty stomach, and his role... 07 September 2006 9 min read
