I drive an 11 year old Ford Focus Estate with 162K on the clock.

I suspect that I am a Lancia Beta judging by the bits of me that are breaking,...

In my experience affordable storage capacity has kept abreast or slightly ahead of storage requirements until quite recently.

What I am seeing now is storage requirements outstripping the capacity/performance available.

A typical...

This is one of those presentation vs content items.

I wish the tools were intelligent to store a common interpretation but present as the individual prefers.

To me the presentation of this...

Compression to save disk space is of dubious value unless it saves IO.

With technologies such as Fusion-IO and SSDs where you are talking about literally thousands of times that of...

I'm trying to install SQLSharp on a SQL2005 server patched up to build 5000.

I can do it provided I mark all the assemblies as UNSAFE.

Installing on a SQL2008 server presents...

Worth mentioning that this technique works well on any data subject area where there is a defined set of answers.

For example, permutation/combination figures, significance tables.

I was quite proud of coming...

success has many fathers, failure is always an orphan.

There are so many reasons why project fail. Two people have a discussion, both think they have reached a common understanding and then prove conclusively that they don't.

Stretch that...

Calculating correlation statistics

Mark, I haven't come across any predefined limits for proc cache but that doesn't mean to say they aren't there.

Time for further research methinks!

Christoph Muthmann (1/31/2012)

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Nice article, but I'm missing a hint to adhoc queries and their influence on the proc cache. You can save a lot of memory by using the optimize...

Freemind, but have transitioned to x-mind.

RegEx Coach

Most of Red-Gate's stuff

Innovasys DocumentX.

Notepad+

I used to enjoy acquiring tools and get excited over the new features but then I found that I was...

There is survival as in make the mortgage payments, eat, wear clothes.

There is also survival in terms of your own sanity. I've known people who have taken on a...

Just to change track a little. It's your hard-earned post-tax money going on software. What would you get as your base set and why?

"Getting the sack" used to refer to a tradesman being handed back his tools in a bag.

A tradesmans tools were often built up over their working lifespan starting with their...