Damon Armstrong Key Points to Know When Using SP.SOD.executeFunc and SP.SOD.executeOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded So there I was trying to get SharePoint’s script on demand (SOD) working correctly and I thought I had it... 05 October 2015 3 min read
Louis Davidson Thank *you* for my SQL Server MVP Award… Today, I was awarded (at least) one more time with the Microsoft MVP Award. This makes 12 years, and with... 01 October 2015 6 min read
Louis Davidson Heading to Orlando for SQL Saturday again this year Last year, I attended SQL Saturday Orlando again after missing a few years (I did my first database design precon... 26 September 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 38 – Those Magnificent Men Your task? To provide amusing, perhaps technology-related captioning for the scene below. Your prize? A cool $50 in Amazon vouchers.... 25 September 2015 1 min read
Phil Factor Soft Skills for the Developer (Guest Editorial for the Simple-Talk newsletter) In the rush to recruit a developer to fill a gaping void in a... 11 September 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 37 – Ex Libris Live-action Cluedo? An overzealous scalp rejuvenation treatment? Tell us what’s going on – best answer gets a $50 Amazon voucher.… 11 September 2015 1 min read
Amy Burrows Locking objects in SQL Server As my colleague James said in a recent blog post: “If you share a database with other developers, chances are... 03 September 2015 3 min read
Phil Factor Typoglycemia: The PowerShell and the SQL Typoglycemia is the ironic name, (derived from Hypoglycemia) given to the phenomenon that many readers can understand the meaning of... 30 August 2015 5 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 36 – Dutch Courage The editors of Simple-Talk are not above a snifter of sherry (some even say it fires up the mind), but... 28 August 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis Building Databases: One Man's Best Practice? In software development, one man’s meat is often another man’s poison. We come across a technique and it works for... 14 August 2015 3 min read
Louis Davidson Snapshot Isolation Level and Concurrent Modification Collisions – On Disk and In Memory OLTP This is part 1 of my In Memory OLTP blogs for my upcoming book project. In this blog I want... 13 August 2015 13 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 35 – Moonstruck We all need a laugh from time to time, apart from this guy – he clearly has enough going on.... 13 August 2015 1 min read
Dennes Torres Be careful when exchanging old text field by varchar(max) Image and Text fields are deprecated and should be replaced by varchar(max) and varbinary(max), but there are details about how... 10 August 2015 6 min read
Ben Emmett Beta release of C#6 support in .NET Reflector .NET Reflector 9 has now been released, so this beta program is no longer active – you can read more... 05 August 2015 2 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 34 – Bold As Brass This man has some fine, fine whiskers. But that’s not really why we’re here – we want you to tell... 30 July 2015 1 min read
Carly Meichen Time's running out to share your .NET performance optimization tips We’re on the lookout for the best .NET performance tips. The kind that can save hours of work and loads... 30 July 2015 2 min read
Dennes Torres A few more about translation of cube dimensions Translations are a very usefull feature in multidimensional cubes. We can translate not only the cube structure, but also the... 26 July 2015 2 min read
Louis Davidson Utility to reset a sequence next value based on a table/sequence relationship So I was building a database the other day, and I used sequence objects for all of the defaults because... 22 July 2015 11 min read
Ben Emmett ANTS Performance Profiler 9.2 and ANTS Memory Profiler 8.7 Released We just released ANTS Performance Profiler 9.2 and ANTS Memory Profiler 8.7. The headline new capability for both is support... 20 July 2015 2 min read
Louis Davidson Upcoming Speaking Engagements in Indianapolis and Louisville Mercy, July is flying past at breakneck pace isn’t it? The best part of July passing into the history books... 18 July 2015 3 min read
