Blogs Simple Talk Editorial Team in Blogs Ten Years Later Simple Talk has just celebrated its tenth birthday, has changed its platform, and has been given a make-over. The original... 29 July 2016 2 min read
Tony Davis Over-SQL-Engineering In a recent blog post, Jonathan Kehayias demonstrates a clever way to “multi-thread” maintenance tasks, when they need to run... 03 June 2016 2 min read
Tony Davis SSMS Renaissance For many good reasons, DBAs and database developers use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), not SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT).... 20 May 2016 3 min read
Tony Davis 9 Clickbait Simple Talk Titles You Won’t Believe Exist! At Simple-Talk, we specialize in practical, down-to-earth technical articles, and usually choose our titles to match. There’s no mistaking what... 05 May 2016 3 min read
Tony Davis JSON-rise Microsoft was slow to meet the demand to be able to store and retrieve data in JSON, the native data... 21 April 2016 3 min read
Tony Davis Goodwill and hard learning at SQL Bits 15 SQL Bits XV, the official launch event for SQL Server 2016, begins in Liverpool, UK, on May 4, 2016. Simple-Talk... 08 April 2016 3 min read
Tony Davis A Programmer Walks Into a Bar… Conference season is upon us. Sessions, hands-on labs, round table debates, so many opportunities for learning! Of course what they... 11 March 2016 3 min read
Tony Davis Push-Button Database Deployment? Much of what we do in IT seems easy, from a distance; even the modification of a live functioning database... 25 February 2016 3 min read
Tony Davis Does Anyone Do This Stuff “Does anyone actually do this stuff?” This question came from a member of the audience at one of Brent Ozar’s... 11 February 2016 3 min read
Tony Davis A Database to Diagram for I’m no database designer but I do occasionally need to build a very simple database model, no more than a... 28 January 2016 3 min read
Tony Davis Real Developer Heroics One of the strange paradoxes of team development is that effort beyond the call of duty is generally discouraged. Developers... 14 January 2016 3 min read
Tony Davis The Genuine Article On Simple-Talk, we try to make sure that Information Technology is presented in an interesting way. We all tend to... 31 December 2015 3 min read
Tony Davis Workplace Politics The IT workplace can often be stressful when untoward things happen. Maybe, it is business managers who demand new platforms,... 18 December 2015 3 min read
Tony Davis Squaring the NoSQL Circle NoSQL was a bold new revolution. Many of these databases are schema-less, or rather the schema is implicitly defined by... 03 December 2015 3 min read
Tony Davis Issue Tracking Systems: Good Servant, Bad Master Over time, many bug and issue tracking systems decline into a graveyard for bug-reports, a place where problems are buried... 19 November 2015 3 min read
Tony Davis Avoiding Continuous Disintegration A build is a regular health-check for the database. If all is well, then automated builds will run regularly and... 09 October 2015 3 min read
Tony Davis Building Databases: One Man's Best Practice? In software development, one man’s meat is often another man’s poison. We come across a technique and it works for... 14 August 2015 3 min read
Tony Davis The Railmap Towards Easier Query Tuning? Recently, I’ve been getting more and more engrossed in SQL Server Execution plans for various reasons, including editing the forthcoming... 03 July 2015 4 min read
Tony Davis We Don’t Need Any More Heroes Where do I start? It’s a question each of us asks when faced with any learning goal, whether it’s how... 17 June 2015 3 min read
Tony Davis Test Driving Your Database In any engineering project, you can’t avoid testing your product against reality. A friend who once worked at a car... 04 June 2015 3 min read
