Phil Factor The Database Neighbours From Hell In the Windows environment, there seems little safer for application design than a rather staid single-tiered architecture making ODBC/JDBC calls... 09 April 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 25 – Held for Inspection What wondrous magic is this? Something very small, or is he very large? Caption the scene with an ingenious quip... 26 March 2015 1 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA – Empathy Every project I am on, there seems to be a common argument. The project manager is pushing to get done... 24 March 2015 4 min read
Louis Davidson Off to Richmond for SQL Saturday I got the email prodding speakers to blog about our upcoming sessions, so I got myself up and started to... 13 March 2015 3 min read
Phil Factor Converting XML files to YAML or PSON The other day, I needed to convert a whole stack of XML files to YAML. Actually , I would have... 13 March 2015 3 min read
Tony Davis One Man’s Panacea is another Man’s Poison It can be dispiriting when we see the IT Industry take genuine attempts to solve problems, and turn them into... 13 March 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 24 – The Shape of Things to Come The world of tomorrow! What wonders are these two creating from naught but will, determination, and vast round of seed... 13 March 2015 1 min read
Damon Armstrong Fixing “An update error has occurred” When Modifying Alternate Access Mappings in SharePoint A while back, I made change to my SharePoint configuration to modify my alternate access mappings. For some unknown reason,... 12 March 2015 2 min read
Phil Factor For the Love of Stored Procedures It is an exaggeration to say that I like stored procedures. They are an essential if somewhat dangerous part of... 27 February 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 23 – Remote Viewing It is time once again for you to gaze upon an intriguing scene and let us know what’s happening, in... 27 February 2015 1 min read
Damon Armstrong Get-WFFarm and Troubleshooting Register-SPWorklfowService I was helping a colleague configure workflow on his SharePoint development environment when we ran into an issue running the... 17 February 2015 2 min read
Damon Armstrong Fixing the “Content Processing Pipeline Failed to Process the Item" and "Cannot Load Wordbreaker for en or the Fall Back" Errors in SharePoint Search I was attempting to search for something in my development SharePoint farm and couldn’t find it. So I ran the... 16 February 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 22 – The Old Man and the C# What might these gentlemen be saying to one another? The funniest gets $50 in Amazon vouchers.… 13 February 2015 1 min read
Damon Armstrong SharePoint Apps: Blank Page Displayed when Navigating to App I was trying to get a SharePoint app up and running in our environment but was running into a bit... 10 February 2015 2 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 21 – Journey Into Mystery We leave cosy Victoriana behind for the thrilling frontiers of space. We still need you to come up with funny... 30 January 2015 1 min read
Damon Armstrong SharePoint Apps and Fixing the “Provided App Differs from Another App with the Same Version and Product ID” Issue I’ve seen a number of people posting about this issue on forums and in blogs, and the resolution tends to... 23 January 2015 1 min read
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
Tony Davis Prettier, But Less Usable When the original window-based user-interface was first being developed by Palo Alto, the team was driven by the idea that... 15 January 2015 3 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
Damon Armstrong C# – Getting the Directory of a Running Executable I was trying to remember how to get the directory of a running executable and I ran across this stack... 14 January 2015 2 min read
