Louis Davidson Dragged Kicking and Screaming into the Clouds When I first heard about the cloud I rolled my eyes. This will never take, it sounds very much like... 02 December 2015 5 min read
Chris Whitworth Profiling the Profilers – Part 2: Anonymous Functions, Accidental Captures and Compiler-Generated Code In the previous post, I looked at tracking down and fixing a memory leak in ANTS Performance Profiler; .NET memory... 02 December 2015 11 min read
Chris Whitworth Profiling the Profilers – Part 1: My Timeline has a Memory Leak! During the final stages of testing for a recent release, a member of our team noticed that memory usage in... 02 December 2015 7 min read
Elizabeth Ayer SQL Source Control: You Can Help Us Complete the Picture We released SQL Source Control v4.1 recently with dramatically improved Git support and it’s already receiving praise. Typical of the... 02 December 2015 4 min read
James Gilmore Reflector 9.0 Released: What We Learned About C# 6 Last week we released .NET Reflector 9.0. As Ben Emmett explained in his blog post, we’ve been working on support... 27 November 2015 6 min read
Phil Factor The SQL of the Feast Days of Western Christendom I’ve been intrigued for a long time by the Christian feasts. Nowadays, we start getting excited about Christmas around July,... 24 November 2015 8 min read
Damon Armstrong Missing or Invalid property value for $(MsDeployServiceUrl) Building SharePoint Apps I was using an automated build to package up a SharePoint App when I received the following error: Missing or... 23 November 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 42 – Not to Alarm You What could have caused this cataclysmic scene? And what might these two gents be discussing? Give us your best guess... 20 November 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis Issue Tracking Systems: Good Servant, Bad Master Over time, many bug and issue tracking systems decline into a graveyard for bug-reports, a place where problems are buried... 19 November 2015 3 min read
Louis Davidson Post PASS Summit Resolutions Many years I have tried early in the year to list a set of “New Year’s Resolutions” but one thing... 09 November 2015 6 min read
Louis Davidson PASS/MVP Summits Reflections Wow, it was great actually getting out to the summits this year. Sitting here in the SEATAC airport, waiting for... 06 November 2015 6 min read
James Billings SQL Source Control and Git In a recent blog post my colleague and SQL Server MVP Steve Jones said “It seems as though Git is... 05 November 2015 6 min read
Phil Factor Late in the Day for a DBA I first met Joe when I went to Woodworking evening classes several years ago. I saw him from across the... 05 November 2015 4 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 41 – Spirited Solution How have this bunch been driven to drinking? Tell us what you think might have happened and our favourite response... 05 November 2015 1 min read
Dennes Torres The news about the first day of PASS Summit Once again, I have the opportunity to attend to this wonderful conference in Seattle, fully of new information about our... 29 October 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 40 – Barrel of Laughs Man, machinery and…murder? Help us get to the bottom of this curious scene through the medium of caption. As ever,... 22 October 2015 1 min read
Damon Armstrong Getting the Absolute URL of a File in CSOM Sometimes you need the absolute URL of a file in SharePoint, and if you happen to just have the absolute... 20 October 2015 2 min read
Jason Crease How to Create Ten 200GB Test Databases in 60 Seconds In a recent survey run on community site SQL Server Central, 58% of respondents admitted that their test database is... 14 October 2015 4 min read
Tony Davis Avoiding Continuous Disintegration A build is a regular health-check for the database. If all is well, then automated builds will run regularly and... 09 October 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 39 – In The Drawing Room An idyllic scene – but wait! Something’s not quite right. The funniest response nets a $50 Amazon voucher, and we’ll... 09 October 2015 1 min read
