Tony Davis The Art of the Author When tidying out an old cupboard a few weeks ago, one after another I casually tossed outdated, dusty technical books... 07 May 2015 3 min read
Tony Davis Taming Transaction Logzilla A transaction log, if sized sensibly, is like a ring buffer. It will stay the same size however much data... 24 April 2015 3 min read
Tony Davis One Man’s Panacea is another Man’s Poison It can be dispiriting when we see the IT Industry take genuine attempts to solve problems, and turn them into... 13 March 2015 3 min read
Tony Davis Prettier, But Less Usable When the original window-based user-interface was first being developed by Palo Alto, the team was driven by the idea that... 15 January 2015 3 min read
Tony Davis Please sp_help My System Stored Procedure SQL Server provides a large number of built-in stored procedures that can tell us all sorts of useful information about... 20 November 2014 3 min read
Tony Davis PASS Summit 14 Dispatches: Azure Machine Learning PASS Summit 14 Day 1 keynote and Joseph Sirosh and Sanjay Somi demo’d Azure Machine Learning (ML) and the drive... 05 November 2014 1 min read
Tony Davis PASS Summit 14 Dispatches: DocumentDB During the PASS Summit 14 keynote, TK “Ranga” Rengarajan mentioned briefly Microsoft’s DocumentDB, a new NoSQL database. I was hoping... 05 November 2014 3 min read
Tony Davis To PASS Summit and Beyond In his recent, successful bid to win election to the PASS board, Grant Fritchey (@GFritchey) opened his campaign statement as... 23 October 2014 2 min read
Tony Davis Source Code isn't sacred A recent, short article on O’Reilly.com, Before You Refactor suggests that if you think you need to rewrite code, you... 10 October 2014 3 min read
Tony Davis Locating business logic in applications One of the most pernicious and pervasive myths in business-application development is that all business logic must be kept from... 11 September 2014 3 min read
Tony Davis When you really need to know why your SQL Query’s slow It is useful to know that a SQL Query is slow, but it is even better to know why. To... 28 August 2014 3 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
Tony Davis We have our standards, and we need them The presenter suddenly broke off. He was midway through his section on how to apply to the relational database the... 06 June 2014 3 min read
Tony Davis The Body in the Trunk When one considers that the primary purpose of a modern Source Control system is to allow branches and subsequent merges,... 25 April 2014 3 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
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
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
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
Tony Davis Cloud Insecurity Often, one sees the views of those raising reasoned doubts about cloud security dismissed as fogeyish and cloud-phobic. Of course,... 22 November 2013 3 min read
Tony Davis What the Hekaton? Hekaton, the power behind SQL Server 2014’s In-Memory OLTP technology, is intended to make data operations run orders of magnitude... 25 October 2013 2 min read
