Damon Armstrong SharePoint 2010 to 2013 Search Service Application Upgrade Issue–Action 15.0.80.0 Fails During the course of upgrading a search application database from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 we encountered an error in... 22 April 2014 2 min read
Alex Yates Looking for participants for deployment process feedback UPDATE April 22 2014 – Thanks to everyone who got in touch, we now have enough people participating in the... 16 April 2014 1 min read
Phil Factor Silos and Monoliths – Moving On to the Past The presenter positively glowed with enthusiasm as she showed us how easily the schemas collections of documents in MongoDB could... 11 April 2014 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Simple Talk Roundup April 11 Heartbleed is the big issue of the day, we hope that everyone has changed their passwords and updated their certificates.... 11 April 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For a DBA – Attire So, clearly there were a few unrealistic parts of this blog. First, I don’t own a tuxedo. I wore one... 01 April 2014 5 min read
Tony Davis D.R.Y. with SQL Scripts Developers strive to write well-tested, reusable code with well-defined interfaces so that when they need to update the functionality, they... 28 March 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson Speaking this weekend at SQL Saturday 277 – Richmond One of my favorite locations to speak or attend is when Richmond has a SQL Saturday. (though if you... 19 March 2014 2 min read
Phil Factor Including timings, I/O and XML Execution plans in your SQL Test rigs Sometimes, when developing SQL code, you need to run an automated test and benchmark over and over again. In this... 14 March 2014 5 min read
Tony Davis Build, Buy or Rent? In the pioneering years of the PC industry, people mainly created for themselves whatever tools they needed, because there wasn’t... 14 March 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For a DBA – Dreams “When I was younger, I dreamt of being an astronaut…” “When I was younger, I dreamt of being a doctor... 11 March 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson How In-Memory Database Objects Affect Database Design: Getting Started Weird, somehow I lost text in the middle of this post after it was posted… I created it a few days back... 10 March 2014 2 min read
Louis Davidson Abstract Submission Day for Speaking 2014… Today is my least favorite part of the whole speaking thing. It is the day that I put myself out there... 02 March 2014 4 min read
Phil Factor Sundown on Markdown? Markdown is a way of using plain text to create markup, usually, but not exclusively, HTML. It is based on... 28 February 2014 4 min read
Louis Davidson Holy Cow, It has been a while Well, it has been over a year since my last insanely optimistic blog about the next year, but this... 27 February 2014 5 min read
Tony Davis DevOps Dilemma The term ‘DevOps’ has been widely misunderstood because the different teams within any really substantial development project understand the work... 14 February 2014 3 min read
Phil Factor Getting normally-distributed random numbers in TSQL When you are creating test data, you will, at some stage, hit the problem of simulating a distribution. There are... 07 February 2014 3 min read
Jonathan Allen Learning by doing (or not) I have spent a lot of today repeating steps that I followed months ago and it is hopefully through writing... 06 February 2014 2 min read
Phil Factor Converting Roman Numerals: More TSQL Program Chrestomathy. As part of my series on TSQL Program Chrestomathy, this is a couple of TSQL routines that convert between integers... 03 February 2014 4 min read
Phil Factor The Joy of Program Chrestomathy After days spent wrestling with an intractable mess of code, with the winter rain beating on the windows, I sometimes... 31 January 2014 5 min read
Jonathan Allen Quick Tip: Windows directory file list In a previous version of Windows (circa Windows95 or older) there was a button in the toolbar of it’s equivalent... 30 January 2014 2 min read
