Simple Talk Editorial Team Tribal Awards 2014 Winners Announcement Throughout December, Simple-Talk and SQLServerCentral hosted the second annual Tribal Awards. With these awards, we let the technical community choose... 20 January 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 20 – The Size of the Matter We present a whimsical scene. The best (funniest) suggestion for what’s going on wins $50 in Amazon credit. As always,... 15 January 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 19 – Point and Click What a beautiful pastoral scene! If you absolutely had to caption it, what would you say? Funniest answer wins a... 02 January 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team An Origin Story for a DBA Anti-Hero If you’re old enough, you may well remember the burst of sheer joy at ripping the wrapping paper from a... 19 December 2014 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition – A DBA Christmas Carol Old DBA Scrooge is ready lock his developers out of the server and send them to the poor house (bear... 18 December 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 17 – Duel Another conundrum, another caption required. What has set these two gentlemen at each other’s throats? Linux vs Unix? A slight... 04 December 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team The 2014 Tribal Awards The 2014 Tribal Awards are here again! We had so much fun and such a great response from last year’s... 21 November 2014 2 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team The SQL Server Code Smells Drive Earlier this year Red Gate published a short PDF of 119 SQL Server Code Smells put together by Phil Factor... 21 November 2014 2 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 16 – More Fish in the Sea Congratulations to Dimitrios Kalemis for winning this week’s caption competition. A strange scene! And once more, it’s up to you... 20 November 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 15 – Watson the Telly Congrats to Andre who won this week’s caption competition with: My Dear Watson, I’d wish you’d stop tipping your cigar... 07 November 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 14 – Back To The Future Congratulations to Dimitrios Kalemis who won this week’s competition with: Hail, Starfleet Admirals! We who are about to use NoSQL... 24 October 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team How to Write a Blog That Gets Read There is a fairly simple and easily-learned technique to writing a blog that people will want to read. We asked... 24 October 2014 5 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 13 – Lucky for Some What’s going on here? There appears to be a lad under cover, but what’s it all about? You have to... 10 October 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 12: Bakers Dozen Less One What’s going on here? There appears to be a hand, but what’s it all about? You have to tell us,... 26 September 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 11 – A Coat for all Seasons Update: Congratulations to Dimitrios Kalemis with his caption “I asked all of you to gather here today, because I have... 11 September 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 10 – Double Digits Congratulations to Doug Tucker who won this week’s caption competition with: The keyboard is so last-century (just like your outfits).... 29 August 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 9: Carry on Captioning Update: Congratulations to Louis Somers who won the caption competition with “It’s all about having the right tools… Finding Bugs... 14 August 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 8 – Captions Take Manhattan Update: Congratulations to Dimitrios for winning this week’s caption competition. It’s that time again. We present a bucolic scene, you... 01 August 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 7 – No Clever Subtitle Edition Update: Congratulations to WilliamII who won the caption competition on August 4 with his caption: Marketing tell me it won’t... 17 July 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Simple Talk Users Survey 2014 We are committed to making sure Simple-Talk has great content that you want to read. For this reason, we produce... 09 July 2014 1 min read
