Simon Galbraith Open Letter to the SQL Server Community about SQL Prompt There have been quite a few posts on the SQL Server Central forums about SQL Prompt, our tool for providing... 26 July 2006 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Prefixing Database Tables Reviewing a database with 400 tables is no easy task, especially when you didn’t make the database. It seems like... 26 July 2006 1 min read
James Moore Microsoft Research I thought the Microsoft Research site deserved a mention as there are some great little projects on there. A pick of... 24 July 2006 2 min read
James Moore Regular Expressions I have just spent the last hour or so trying to get a .NET’s regular expression to do what I want... 18 July 2006 2 min read
Helen Joyce Have your chance to influence the next version of SQL Backup If you want to be one of the privileged few people who will get chance to influence the development of... 17 July 2006 1 min read
Dan Archer Hoop jumping Although this may come as a surprise to some, as I work at a company which happens to produce simple... 14 July 2006 6 min read
Phil Factor The Simple Talk SQL Prettifier (n.b. The prettifier is now on version 1.5 and is used by the editor and other contributors on this site... 13 July 2006 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Creating Class Instances from Type Strings If you’ve looked through the web.config or the machine.config then you’ve had to have seen various type strings strewn about... 13 July 2006 2 min read
Tony Davis Beer and victory celebrations During the recent World Cup a couple of my friends in the US sent me this clip from an English... 12 July 2006 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Demoralizing a Table Even though I’m a web developer by nature, I find myself writing about databases fairly often. At work I’m writing... 11 July 2006 1 min read
Tony Davis Good beer in unexpected places As part of an occasional series on odd places to get good beer, on Friday last week Red Gate sent... 07 July 2006 2 min read
Damon Armstrong In Loo of Technology I can imagine how the conversation must have gone. A slick salesman stood in the board room staring down a... 03 July 2006 3 min read
Phil Factor Third-party tools for the Database developer I suspect that many database developers use other applications to extend the use of the SQL Server system. I like... 28 June 2006 5 min read
Dominick Reed War correspondant At times, Red gate is a dangerous place to work. It’s not that the volcano in the first floor meeting... 28 June 2006 2 min read
Damon Armstrong Tools: RAD Regular Expression Designer The regular expression engine in .NET is an awesome technology for text processing and string manipulation and is definitely one... 28 June 2006 2 min read
Damon Armstrong Great Expectations Most bloggers start out with an overly idealistic view that their blog is going to contain Pulitzer quality coverage of... 27 June 2006 2 min read
Tony Davis Tech Ed 2006 Snippets: FoxPro lives In the press room, Mary Jo Foley (from Microsoft Watch) was expounding on how hard it was to predict which... 14 June 2006 1 min read
Tony Davis Tech Ed 2006: Meeting good people on Day 3 I met a lot of good people today at Tech Ed yesterday. I know that may seem a rather trite... 14 June 2006 3 min read
Tony Davis Tech Ed 2006 Beer Break: The Miracle of Science While taking a spot of lunch in Cambridge (Boston), I noticed in my trusty guidebook a place called “The Miracle... 13 June 2006 1 min read
Phil Factor The DBA’s Demise: a recitation. On a doorway in DoverI once stumbled overa programmer wrapped in a sheetThis poor prostrate nerddidn’t utter a word as... 13 June 2006 1 min read
