Tony Davis The Joy of Simple Talk Editorial Meetings Phil Factor’s recent blog on The Joy of IT Meetings contains a lot of good advice, but if you really... 19 September 2006 2 min read
Damon Armstrong How Do You Find a Hit Man? A while back, I was reading the story of Susan Kuhnhausen, a nurse who came home one day to find... 17 September 2006 2 min read
Phil Factor The Acronym Playpen Sometimes, one of the most relevant skills that a developer needs to have, when working in the corporate environment, is... 13 September 2006 5 min read
Damon Armstrong Kwitcherbitchin: Personal Phone Calls at Work I’m amazed at some of the things people have to put up with at work, especially when it comes to... 12 September 2006 2 min read
Phil Factor The Sticking Page-Down-Key Incident Most software projects seem to go on an emotional roller-coaster voyage. Initial euphoria soon fades into confusion, followed by despair.... 01 September 2006 5 min read
Damon Armstrong Expensive Primary Keys (A.K.A Hacking Your Car Key’s SecuriLock) You may have thought this blog entry was about databases, but no. It’s about Ford fleecing me on a set... 30 August 2006 6 min read
Phil Factor The Septic Tank Once, whilst I was working for a large international enterprise, I received a company edict, from the IT director, that... 28 August 2006 5 min read
Helen Joyce A new version of SQL Backup There are exciting times for Red Gate’s SQL Backup development team at the moment. We have just released a minor... 21 August 2006 1 min read
Bart Read SQL Prompt 3 Beta Signup – A Small Change of Plan Sometimes I feel like I should just wire up my brain directly to this blog. Like most people, I’m aware... 16 August 2006 2 min read
Bart Read SQL Prompt 3 Beta – First Contact Those of you that have so far signed up for the SQL Prompt 3 beta program, or at least those... 16 August 2006 2 min read
Tony Davis Developer vs. Tester vs. PM In a recent blog, Todd Bishop highlighted the fact that Microsoft had hired “more than 10,000 people worldwide in the fiscal... 16 August 2006 4 min read
Damon Armstrong Date Errors Pulling DB2 Data into SQL Server Moving data from DB2 to SQL Server has been an experience and a half, fraught with lessons throughout. My latest... 15 August 2006 3 min read
Bart Read Regex.Match – this might save you 5 minutes of head-scratching I often make use of the Regex.IsMatch( string ) method to check if a regular expression finds a match in... 15 August 2006 2 min read
Bart Read Extended SQL Prompt 3 Special Offer Some good news! We’ve decided to extend the $99 per license introductory pricing to all orders placed on or before... 15 August 2006 1 min read
Bart Read Getting Rid Of The Pesky Automatic Update Nag Dialog You know the one I mean: the one that comes up after you’ve gone through the wizard asking if you... 10 August 2006 2 min read
Bart Read Nothing To See Here – Move Along Words I thought I would never have a legitimate reason to utter, particularly with respect to SQL Prompt 3. But... 10 August 2006 3 min read
Bart Read SQL Prompt 3 – All Quiet On The Western Front? Well no actually. After maintaining a stance of silence bordering on outright evasiveness for some weeks now, it seems about... 03 August 2006 2 min read
Phil Factor The Joy Of IT Meetings As the average concentration span of the adult human is less than forty minutes, I have always puzzled over the... 03 August 2006 6 min read
Dan Archer Exceptional service A constant niggle in the arena of computing is the way in which nobody takes responsibility. If your computer crashes... 28 July 2006 4 min read
Simon Galbraith England will never win the (Soccer) World Cup (As you can tell from the title, this post has nothing to do with SQL Server or running a business.... 28 July 2006 6 min read
