Damon Armstrong Fixing NativeHR 0x80070002 Error When Retracting or Deploying SharePoint Apps from Visual Studio Sometimes when App deployment fails from Visual Studio you will get the following error when trying to retract or redeploy... 06 August 2014 2 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
Tony Davis Interviews: Going Beyond the Technical Quiz All developers will be familiar with the basic format of a technical interview. After a bout of CV-trawling to gauge... 31 July 2014 3 min read
Michelle Taylor Compare those hard-to-reach servers with SQL Snapper If you’ve got an environment which is at the end of an unreliable or slow network connection, or isn’t connected... 21 July 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA – Moments “Do one thing every day that scares you” – Eleanor Roosevelt Laudable as these sentiments are, inspirational even, most DBAs... 17 July 2014 3 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
Phil Factor On Identifying the Real Stakeholders When it is appropriate, I’m sold on the idea of evolutionary development and delivery based on iterative and incremental phases... 17 July 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson Speaking on 7/25 for the Nashville SQL Server User Group: How In-Memory Database Objects Affect Database Design So I have blogged about it, and I have prepared for it, and next Friday at lunch time I will... 16 July 2014 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Does System.IO.Path.GetFileName Work on Network Paths and URLs? Yes it does, but it’s going to return everything after the last slash in the string. This means if you... 14 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
Jonathan Hickford Setting up continuous integration for your database with Red Gate and AppVeyor In this post I’ll walk through setting up a hosted continuous integration (CI) system for your SQL Server database. We’ll... 08 July 2014 20 min read
Louis Davidson How In-Memory Database Objects Affect Database Design: Uniqueness This part is part of an ongoing series of blogs I am writing while preparing to give a presentation based... 06 July 2014 9 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 6 – Return of the Captions Update: Congratulations to Doug Tucker who won this competition on July 21 with his caption “Murphy begins to rethink his... 02 July 2014 1 min read
Louis Davidson How In-Memory Database Objects Affect Database Design: Or does it? This part is part of an ongoing series of blogs I am writing while preparing to give a presentation based on... 30 June 2014 4 min read
Louis Davidson How In-Memory Database Objects Affect Database Design: The Logical and Physical Models This part is part of an ongoing series of blogs I am writing while preparing to give a presentation based on... 28 June 2014 4 min read
Jonathan Allen You go to the effort of writing a blog and then … It’s hard work, some find it harder than others, but there are plenty of people making an effort to write... 28 June 2014 5 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition the Fifth Update: Congratulations to Fatherjack who won this competition on July 7 with his caption “Little known fact: the ‘S’ in... 20 June 2014 1 min read
Louis Davidson Speaking this weekend at SQL Saturday 286 – Louisville Wow, where does the time go? Hope I see every reader there in Louisville this weekend for a lovely time. Say... 19 June 2014 4 min read
Ben Rees Continuous Delivery for Databases – a Pipe Dream? “I’m a DBA for a large healthcare firm here in the US. You’d have to put a gun to my... 19 June 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson Speaking this week at Richmond SQL Server User Group Thursday night, at 6:00 (or so) I will be speaking in Richmond, talking about How to Implement a Hierarchy using... 08 June 2014 3 min read