Tony Davis Going Metro When it was announced, I confess was somewhat surprised by the striking new “Metro” User Interface for Windows 8, based... 13 April 2012 3 min read
Tony Davis Concurrent Affairs I once wrote an editorial, multi-core mania, on the conundrum of ever-increasing numbers of processor cores, but without the concurrent... 16 March 2012 3 min read
Tony Davis A Community Cure for a String Splitting Headache A heartwarming tale of dogged perseverance and Community collaboration to solve some SQL Server string-related headaches. Michael J Swart posted... 02 March 2012 2 min read
Tony Davis To Not CI to Eye Many developers, including Troy Hunt, here on Simple-Talk, have argued persuasively that each database developer in a team needs to... 03 February 2012 3 min read
Tony Davis A suitable present, whatever one’s past Even DBAs have devoted aunts. They are probably also oblivious to the mental anguish they cause to their relatives in... 15 December 2011 2 min read
Tony Davis Time for a rethink on SQL CLR? It is almost seven years since Microsoft announced the sensational news that, with their new SQL Server 2005, you could... 29 September 2011 4 min read
Tony Davis SQL Code Reuse: teaching a dog new tricks Developers, by every natural instinct and training, strive to make their code reusable and generic. Dissuading them from doing so,... 01 September 2011 4 min read
Tony Davis A DBA’s best friend is his tempdb There is a saying amongst welfare agencies that one can tell how well a family is functioning by looking at... 18 August 2011 3 min read
Andrew Clarke DevOps: Nostrums or Knowledge? There are good reasons for the management of the release of applications. Businesses see it as a safety-net to ensure... 16 August 2011 3 min read
Tony Davis Bug Me Not Bug metrics are a notoriously erratic way to judge the performance of a development team and project, but despite this... 08 July 2011 4 min read
Andrew Clarke Cloud Cuckoo Land Does it strike you odd that, despite the outage of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Block Storage on... 10 May 2011 3 min read
Andrew Clarke Virtual Irony for Oracle Where’s Oracle VM 3, and why should you be waiting for it? Here lies a puzzling story. On May 13,... 12 April 2011 3 min read
Tony Davis An Agile House of Straw The ideal Agile application developer welcomes changing requirements, even late in development. The DBA or Database Developer doesn’t. Why is... 31 March 2011 3 min read
Tony Davis New Wine in New Bottles How many people, when their car shows signs of wear and tear, would consider upgrading the engine and keeping the... 17 March 2011 3 min read
Andrew Clarke The Hot-Add Memory Hogs One of the more difficult tasks, when virtualizing a server, is to determine the amount of memory that Hypervisor should... 15 March 2011 2 min read
Andrew Clarke Opportunity Nokia’s Nokia’s alliance with Microsoft is likely to be good news for anyone using Microsoft technologies, and particularly for .NET developers.... 17 February 2011 2 min read
Tony Davis Head in the Clouds We’re just past the second anniversary of the launch of Windows Azure. A couple of years’ experience with Azure in... 07 January 2011 3 min read
Tony Davis Emoti-phrases Surely the next radical step in the development of User-interface design is for applications to react appropriately to the rising... 09 December 2010 3 min read
Tony Davis SA no more! Despite it being such an obvious security problem, developers still use the sa login, or assign sysadmin privileges to their... 28 October 2010 2 min read
Tony Davis Best Practice and Judgement Until the recent promise of generally-available broadband, the industry had to wrestle with the task of providing a solution to... 19 October 2010 3 min read
