Louis Davidson in Opinion Pieces The State of the Database 2025 Less than a week ago, Redgate released their annual State of the Database Landscape report. You can read about the... 17 February 2025 3 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials Art and Science and of course AI There is a classic argument that goes like this, “is programming art or a science?” In its purest form, science... 03 February 2025 5 min read
Phil Factor in Editorials Accessibility, and the Need for Ingenious Simplicity in Computer Scripts, Languages and Programs I’m very keen on accessibility in computer systems. Nowadays we tend to take a rather superior attitude to this problem,... 30 January 2025 12 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials Nostalgic Memory Loss Today’s topic pertains to 99.999% of all people, young, old, and all age ranges . I am also not talking... 20 January 2025 4 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials Simple Talk 2024 Year in Review Edit: Added pictures to the PASS section of the Redgate Hub Happy New Year to all of the Simple talk... 31 December 2024 7 min read
Louis Davidson in Career TSQL Tuesday #181 – The first SQL Server Feature that made me go “Wow!” First off, thank you to Kevin Chant for hosting TSQL Tuesday this month. And equally, thank you for not putting... 11 December 2024 4 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials Love Your Conference Sponsors You probably already realize this, but I work for a company that sponsors conferences. As the editor of Simple Talk,... 04 December 2024 4 min read
John Kerski in Career Hiring and Motivating Technical Polyglots in Data Analytics In this article, I will discuss hiring and motivating technical polyglots. A polyglot is a person who speaks multiple languages... 22 November 2024 9 min read
Louis Davidson in Career T-SQL Tuesday #180 – Good enough is perfect Today’s post is in reply to the invitation post, Josephine Bush asks the question: “How do you get to good... 12 November 2024 4 min read
Louis Davidson in Blogs Mental Rest The importance of rest of all types can’t be overstated. In today’s world, rest is a rare and valuable commodity.... 15 October 2024 4 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials Simple Talks at the PASS Summit This year at Simple Talk has been exciting, after a slow start with me being more or less out for... 23 September 2024 4 min read
Grant Fritchey in Blogs What Did AI Ever Do for Me? Let me start with a simple confession, and I hope it’s not too shocking for anyone; I’m old. When I... 09 September 2024 3 min read
Louis Davidson in Blogs Why don’t you work like this? No matter how much I love social media, there are some annoying patterns that work better than most sincere ones.... 04 September 2024 5 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs The Big IT Outage: Where are we going? As you all know about, just a few weeks ago we had the big CrowdStrike global IT outage. Some lucky... 28 August 2024 5 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials Time to opine in this year’s Redgate’s State of the Database Landscape Survey Every year, Redgate puts out a survey to technology workers around the globe asking a set of straightforward, non-invasive questions... 23 August 2024 2 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials PASS Summit Scholarships? Awesome! This year, PASS is introducing scholarships to support individuals who might not typically have the opportunity to attend the PASS... 15 August 2024 3 min read
Career Simple Talk Editor in Career Amplify your Experience – How to Start Writing and Speaking At PASS Data Community Summit 2023, Tonie Huizer and Tony Davis joined forces to deliver a one-hour session all about... 31 July 2024 6 min read
Steve Jones in Editorials 5 Ways to Spend Your 2024 Learning and Development Budget in the US Not many data professionals get a personal Learning and Development (L&D) budget that we can use at our discretion. This... 30 July 2024 7 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials Fall is around the corner, and hence the PASS Data Community Summit, too Welcome to the dog days of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. It is hot, so if you are like me... 29 July 2024 5 min read
Marcella McKeown in Editorials Insights from Redgate’s PASS Senior Program Manager In today’s editorial, guest writer Marcella McKeown shares some insights from her tenure from working on the program of PASS... 27 July 2024 5 min read