James Moore Enumerating local 64 bit and 32 bit instances of SQL Server When checking for local instances of SQL Server its normally best enumerate the value of the registry key HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftMicrosoft SQL... 02 November 2006 3 min read
Damon Armstrong More DB2 Date Conversion Issues Importing Primary Keys into SQL Server In a previous blog entry (Date Errors Pulling DB2 Data into SQL Server) I recounted some of the issues I... 25 October 2006 1 min read
Phil Factor Lament It was just after I’d written the ‘Yancey Men’ article for Simple Talk that I came across the following verses... 20 October 2006 2 min read
Claire Brooking Here’s your chance to help us develop the next version of SQL Backup… A major development of SQL Backup is scheduled for the coming months and Jamie Gerig is looking for a lucky... 18 October 2006 1 min read
Bart Read Another Body Blow For Freedom Of Speech I need to apologise because we’ve had to disable anonymous comments on my blog due to the fact that for... 18 October 2006 1 min read
Damon Armstrong Almost Properly Set 100% Table Heights Using CSS I like making webpages that expand to fill the entire browser window, but ever since browsers started rendering in full-compliance mode it has... 02 October 2006 1 min read
Dominick Reed Vaporising users Developing a usable application requires that you pay particular attention to who you’re designing for. That statement isn’t exactly rocket... 28 September 2006 3 min read
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
