My git repository is too large!

Today I did a clone of one of my git repositories and it took ages to download. Looking into what got downloaded it was easy to see why. The .git folder was over 500Mb in size.

SQL Transaction Log Backups

Like many DBAs I spend a lot of time maintaining my SQL Server backups.

From SQL Server I maintain both full backups and transaction log backups. I have often restored my full backups but until recently I have never restored a transaction log backup. All…

Trying Out Azure Active Directory

One of my plans is to create new MVC Webapps for my companies databases. Once I publish these I will need to secure them so only staff have access.

The traditional way to do this would be insert membership tables into my database. The user then…

Model View Controller (MVC)

Model View Controller or MVC is a software architectural pattern for implementing user interfaces on…

Coding myself into a corner

I spend an awful lot of my working life adding new features and improvements to a legacy database system.

Development Annoyance

I spend a lot of my time creating new features that simplify my companies business processes.

A good example of this is an invoicing system I created. Instead of users working off different spreadsheets and copying and pasting data between various different…