Phil Factor The Cobra Programming Language There are suddenly a number of strong alternatives to C# or VB. F#, IronPython and Iron Ruby are now joined... 26 April 2010 9 min read
Geoffrey Braaf .NET Reflector Pro to the rescue Almost all applications have to interface with components or modules written by somebody else, for which you don't have the... 19 April 2010 6 min read
Elie Bou Issa Getting Started with Active Directory Rights Management Services for Exchange 2010 With security concerns being a constant litany, it's worth considering Active Directory Rights Management Services as a powerful tool in... 06 April 2010 13 min read
Richard Morris Cristina Cifuentes: Geek of the Week Cristina Cifuentes was already well-known for her work on decompilers before she took the development of Sun Microsystems 'Parfait' bug-checking... 30 March 2010 13 min read
Nick Harrison Reflector Pro Cometh Reflector 6 is here. Nick Harrison is a long-time Reflector enthusiast, and has been responsible for writing an add-in. As... 25 February 2010 9 min read
Andrew Clarke Who Tests the Tester? It is scarcely surprising that it can take up to five years to release a new version of SQL Server... 19 February 2010 15 min read
Michael Sorens Using LINQ Lambda Expressions to Design Customizable Generic Components LINQ makes code easier to write and maintain by abstracting the data source. It provides a uniform way to handle... 27 January 2010 25 min read
Rodney Landrum Managing Data Growth in SQL Server 'Help, my database ate my disk drives!'. Many DBAs spend most of their time dealing with variations of the problem... 21 January 2010 37 min read
Chris Allen Profiling SharePoint with ANTS Performance Profiler 5.2 Using ANTS Performance Profiler with SharePoint has, previously, been possible, but not easy. Version 5.2 of ANTS Performance Profiler changes... 24 December 2009 5 min read
Barry King SQL Server Partitioning without Enterprise Edition Table partitioning is a valuable technique for managing very large database tables. It has always been possible with SQL Server,... 10 December 2009 6 min read
Michael Sorens Using Three Flavors of LINQ To Populate a TreeView LINQ is a valuable technology. LINQ to XML, LINQ to Objects and LINQ to XSD, in particular, can save valuable... 02 December 2009 23 min read
Richard Morris Donald Knuth: Geek of the Week Donald Knuth is an extraordinary man. As well as inventing 'Literate Programming' and writing the most important textbook on programming... 26 November 2009 14 min read
Jonathan Medd Active Directory Management with PowerShell in Windows Server 2008 R2 One of the first things you notice with Windows Server 2008 R2 is that PowerShell 2.0 has become central to... 19 November 2009 15 min read
Phil Factor Pivoting, Un-pivoting and Aggregating: A Quick Spin Around the Block In which Phil is asked to write a nice simple quick-start guide about aggregation, pivoting and un-pivoting techniques. To do... 12 November 2009 17 min read
Grant Fritchey Controlling Execution Plans with Hints The Query Optimizer gets it right most of the time, but occasionally it chooses a plan that isn't the best... 12 November 2009 38 min read
Bob Cramblitt Exceptional DBA Josef Richberg: fighting cancer, but still sharing Josef Richberg is an exceptional person: The Judges of the Exceptional DBA Award were quickly proved right in their decision... 10 November 2009 6 min read
Michael Sorens How to build a Query Template Explorer Having introduced his cross-platform Query Template solution, Michael now gives us the technical details on how to integrate his .NET... 23 October 2009 15 min read
Matt Simmons The Ego and the System Administrator Because the Sys Admins and DBAs who are efficient end up wielding a great deal of power, there is always... 22 October 2009 5 min read
Michael Sorens A Unified Approach to Multi-DataBase Query Templates While trying to get the information he needed out of various SQL, MySQL and Oracle environments, Michael finally got tired... 30 September 2009 22 min read
Neil Hobson Exchange 2010 High Availability In April 2009 Microsoft released a public beta of Exchange 2010, the latest and greatest version of a part of... 18 September 2009 14 min read
