James Moore The Benefits of Regular Deployment When developing software, it makes sense to 'fail early, fail often'; to become aware of mistakes quickly and to learn from them. This means being... 13 December 2012 14 min read
Troy Hunt The unnecessary evil of the shared development database One of the greatest pain-points in developing a database-driven application happens when the application is in source control,but the database isn't. When the development database... 23 March 2011 16 min read
Bob Cramblitt Red Gate’s new Scary DBA: Coming to a town near you Grant Fritchey, The Scary DBA, has now taken the leap from being a Simple-Talk author and FoRG(Friend of Red Gate) to being employed by Red... 16 February 2011 5 min read
Troy Hunt Foolproof Atomic Versioning of Applications Bad things tend to happen to developments where the scripts for the database layer are left out of source control. Now that we have the... 08 December 2010 9 min read
Brad McGehee Brad’s Sure Guide to SQL Storage Compress SQL Storage Compress does just that, and encrypts as well, allowing the files associated with a live database to take much less file-space, and securing... 07 December 2010 27 min read
Michael Francis SQL Source Control – Less Pain for Red Jungle As a dedicated 'twitcher', Michael's eye is caught by a 'tweet' from Red Jungle. In this case, it was not an exotic species, but a... 26 November 2010 5 min read
Brad McGehee Brad’s Sure Guide to SQL Virtual Restore In the first of a series of in-depth software reviews, Brad investigates a newcomer, SQL Virtual Restore. What does it aim to do? How does... 05 August 2010 34 min read
Bob Cramblitt Reinventing the Exchange email archiver If you could design an Exchange email archiver from scratch, what would you do differently and how would you bring it to maturity? Bob Cramblitt... 19 July 2010 6 min read
Sean Duffy Manageable and Trim: A Review of Exchange Server Archiver 3.0 Sean Duffy, always keen to be on the cutting edge of making his job as a production SysAdmin as painless as possible, puts V3.0 of... 19 July 2010 10 min read
Bob Cramblitt David Atkinson: The who, what, when, where, why and how of software testing Red Gate Software's approach to testing is famous for its precision and thoroughness. So what's it like to be a tester in such an exacting... 16 April 2007 7 min read
