Monthly Archives: February 2010

Brad McGehee Speaking in Cambridge, England March 24, 2010

By Adam | Published: February 26, 2010
Brad McGehee, SQL Server MVP and Director of DBA Education at Red Gate Software, will be speaking at the Cambridge SQL Server Users Group, here at the Red Gate Offices on Wednesday, March 24, 2010, from 18:00 – 21:00. Read more about it at Brad’s blog
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SQL Search – The Movie!

By Adam | Published: February 18, 2010
You’ll probably be familiar now with SQL Search, Red Gate’s free tool for searching SQL Server databases, but you might not have seen the movie! Well, it’s really a short video looking at how SQL Search was ‘coded by the sea’; how a crack team quickly developed a cool piece of software in an unusual [...]
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The Book of Red Gate

By Adam | Published: February 15, 2010
Arriving at work early this morning, the day after Valentine’s day, I walked into an office full of red ballons. My secret valentine had clearly been hard at work this weekend. This proved not to be the case. Just as well really, as I’d have struggled to take nearly 200 balloons home on the bus, [...]
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Back to the Future

By Ben.Rees | Published: February 9, 2010
Going Back to the Future of Monitoring this week, I’ve been doing some separate work investigating SQL Azure (we have a Beta of SQL Compare for SQL Azure this week – sign up here to try it out) and have been trying to find out how popular the new platform is. So far the answer [...]
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Down Tools Week

By Priya.Sinha | Published: February 5, 2010
A few months ago, Red Gate sent a team of four people (2 developers, 1 tester, 1 designer and 0 project manager) away from our Cambridge office to a large house near the Suffolk coast for a week. The objective of this “Coding by the sea” project was to keep the team away from all [...]
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Microsoft’s SQL ROI

By Tom.Randle | Published: February 3, 2010
While browsing the internet yesterday, we stumbled across this site, which attempts to persuade prospective purchasers of database solutions that SQL Server offers measurable long-term cost savings compared to Oracle. Click on the image to see it in action; it’s quite entertaining. It made us chuckle, but we’re not entirely sure what we think about [...]
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Pinch-punch…. First of the month.

By Brian.Harris | Published: February 1, 2010
Warning! This article contains no references to SQL Server…. Pinch punch, first of the month. And no returns! It’s February. Already?! Where did January go? And for that matter, what happened to Christmas? It feels like only yesterday I was decking my halls with boughs of holly, and wassailing merrily away, singing carols, sipping wine, [...]
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