Damon Armstrong Finding the IP Address of a Specific Network Adapter in Windows (and a rant about Hyper-V) We just recently made the switch from VMWare over to Hyper-V and I have found two things a bit surprising:... 29 January 2014 2 min read
Andrew Hunter The Synchronisation Trap The original generation of PDAs, the ancestors of today’s mobile devices, were notably limited in their connectivity. They relied on... 23 January 2014 7 min read
Tony Davis Should IT Managers Code? In one of his first ever Simple-talk articles, Phil Factor tells the story of a freelance Sybase programmer who created... 17 January 2014 3 min read
Jonathan Allen Backup to the right location, by default. How do you configure where your database backups are created? Do you have problems updating all of your backup jobs... 13 January 2014 8 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Victors of the Tribal Awards Throughout December, Simple-Talk and SQL Server Central hosted the Tribal Awards. With these awards, we let the technical community choose... 06 January 2014 2 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA: Hats It was not long ago that the hats that people wore at work signified their roles in society. Two people... 06 January 2014 5 min read
Simon Cooper C# via Java: Arrays The one primitive type that hasn’t been covered is the array. An array contains a fixed number of items, and... 03 January 2014 5 min read
Jonathan Allen Tribal SQL Awards This is likely to be my last blog for 2013 and it is one that is going to give you... 23 December 2013 2 min read
Bart Read New Features in Node Tools for Visual Studio’s December Dev Build Download the latest Node Tools for Visual Studio dev build from: https://nodejstools.codeplex.com/releases/view/116275 It’s only been a month since the first... 20 December 2013 3 min read
Ben Emmett Killing memory usage with dynamically generated assemblies There’s a nasty memory leak which the .NET Framework can suffer from when using certain classes. Let’s say you instantiate... 20 December 2013 4 min read
Melanie Townsend Recognizing Community Leaders – Tribal Awards Finalists The time has come, voting is now open for the Tribal Awards finalists. Let’s recognize the people who go over... 19 December 2013 2 min read
Phil Factor IT Aphorisms An aphorism is a concise or laconic statement that expresses an element of truth, and maybe a sting in the... 19 December 2013 5 min read
Pop Rivett Split csv entries from a column in a table This is all in a single query without having to create a function. The separator is in a cte so... 13 December 2013 1 min read
Jonathan Allen I Thought Everyone Did It Like That – SSMS Templates One of an occasional series of blogs about things that I do that perhaps others don’t. SSMS – the default... 12 December 2013 10 min read
Melanie Townsend State of the Tribal Awards The Tribal Awards are underway! I wanted to give everyone a quick update on the progress of the awards and... 11 December 2013 6 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA – Deduction “You see, Watson,” he explained in the early hours of the morning as we sat over a cup of tea... 11 December 2013 4 min read
Laila Lotfi New Developer Conference in London The Norwegian Developer Conference (NDC Oslo) has made a name for itself over the years, and is known as the... 06 December 2013 2 min read
Phil Scrace Model Based Testing at Red Gate Agile Software development techniques results in fast and frequent development cycles in which the pressure mounts on us, the Test... 02 December 2013 8 min read
Jonathan Allen SSRS Table Cells with Mixed Formatting In this quick post I’ll show you how to create and format a report so that you can configure individual... 28 November 2013 4 min read
Simon Cooper C# via Java: Primitive types So, what is a primitive type? According to the Incompleteness Theorem, there will always be things in any mathematical system,... 26 November 2013 8 min read
