Tony Davis PASS 13 Dispatches: moving to the cloud PASS Summit 13, Day 1 keynote by Quentin Clarke and we’re hearing about “redefiniing mission critical in the cloud”. With... 16 October 2013 3 min read
Tony Davis PASS 13 Dispatches: Memory Optimized = On I’m at the PASS Summit in Charlotte for the Day 1 keynote by Quentin Clarke, Corporate VP of the data... 16 October 2013 2 min read
Tony Davis It’s the thought that counts… I recently finished editing a book called Tribal SQL, and it was a fantastic experience. It’s a community-sourced book written... 09 October 2013 3 min read
Tony Davis Taming the SQL Beast The recent articles 10 Common Mistakes Java Developers make when Writing SQL and the follow-up, Ten More Mistakes… highlight some... 15 August 2013 3 min read
Tony Davis Comparing Apples and Pairs A recent study, High Costs and Negative Value of Pair Programming, by Capers Jones, pulls no punches in its assessment... 04 July 2013 3 min read
Tony Davis What’s the use of code reuse? All great developers write reusable code, don’t they? Well, maybe, but as with all statements regarding what “great” developers do... 06 June 2013 3 min read
Tony Davis Cheating on Technical Debt One bad practice guaranteed to cause dismay amongst your colleagues is passing on technical debt without full disclosure. There could... 23 May 2013 3 min read
Andrew Clarke Towards Security as a Service? There’s some fuss around the additional security risks of moving an existing service within a corporate data center, to a... 26 March 2013 2 min read
Tony Davis Aversion to Version Control Why shouldn’t we enjoy the benefits of distributed version control systems (DVCS) on Windows? I agree that we’ve made a... 28 February 2013 3 min read
Tony Davis Making PASS tick… On the final day of a hectic PASS Summit 2012, in Seattle, I caught up with Bill Graziano (@billgraziano), Douglas... 05 February 2013 1 min read
Andrew Clarke On taking a more nuanced approach to Cloud services. Although it makes a lot of sense for an IT department to use the Cloud where possible instead of using... 28 January 2013 2 min read
Tony Davis Getting backs up about backups I’ve been leafing with interest through the book, Pro Data Backup and Recovery, by Steve Nelson. For anyone predisposed to... 17 January 2013 3 min read
Tony Davis SQL Server Optimizer Malfunction? There was a sharp intake of breath from the audience when Adam Machanic declared the SQL Server optimizer to be... 06 December 2012 3 min read
Tony Davis So it comes to PASS… How does your company gauge the benefit of attending a technical conference? What’s the best change you made as a... 02 November 2012 2 min read
Tony Davis Data Model Dissonance So often at the start of the development of database applications, there is a premature rush to the keyboard. Unless,... 12 October 2012 3 min read
Tony Davis Monitoring the Application alongside SQL Server Sometimes, on Simple-Talk, it takes a while to spot strange and unexpected patterns of user activity, or small bugs. For... 14 September 2012 3 min read
Tony Davis Fear of the Unknown Codebase It is inevitable that anyone who inherits responsibility for an application will experience that feeling of nagging apprehension. Some signs... 17 August 2012 2 min read
Tony Davis Automating Sanity Checks for Database Deployments Although development teams are inching closer toward their ideal of a fully automated build and deployment strategy for their applications,... 02 August 2012 3 min read
Tony Davis When done is not done Most developers and DBAs will know what it’s like to be asked to do “a quick tidy up” on a... 05 July 2012 3 min read
Tony Davis IT Admin for Thrill Seekers A developer suggested to me recently that the life of the DBA was, surely, a dull one. My first reaction... 27 April 2012 3 min read
