Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 57 – Bicircling What’s going on in this week’s scene? Leave a caption in the comments before June 30th, and the response we... 16 June 2016 1 min read
Opinion Pieces David Poole in Opinion Pieces The IT Manager’s perspective: People as an Asset Information Technology is fast-changing, but the people who work in IT need to have a good chance of a long-term... 16 June 2016 17 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
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 56 – Holding the Phone These two certainly have an unconventional bedside manner, what could they be discussing? Submit a caption in the comments below... 02 June 2016 1 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
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 55 – Lupine Liaison There looks to be shady dealings at hand between this pair, what are they up to? Leave a caption in... 18 May 2016 1 min read
Michael Sorens Continuous Delivery from the 19th Century to TODAY It somehow feels like the end of an era. The National Weather Service of the USA's National Oceanic and Atmospheric... 10 May 2016 2 min read
Blogs Simple Talk Editorial Team in Blogs Caption Competition 54 – Balancing Books Teamwork, tomfoolery, or tug-of-war? Leave a caption in the comment and the best answer will win an Amazon giftcard worth... 05 May 2016 1 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
Blogs Simple Talk Editorial Team in Blogs Caption Competition 53 – At the Drop of a Cat What’s going on here? Leave a caption in the comments and you could win a $50 Amazon voucher, we’ll announce... 19 April 2016 1 min read
Joe Celko The Practical Problems of Determining Equality and Equivalence in SQL In theory, it is easy to determine whether data is equal to, greater than or lesser than a value. Real-world... 11 April 2016 15 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
Simple Talk Editor The 2015/2016 Simple-Talk Awards: Winners Announced Over the past two weeks your votes have flooded in, and we can now announce the winners of the Simple-Talk... 07 April 2016 6 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 52 – A Bone to Pick What’s going on at this skeletal shindig? We’ll announce our favourite caption in the Simple-Talk newsletter on Monday April 25th,... 06 April 2016 1 min read
Richard Morris Hilary Mason: Geek of the Week Founder of machine intelligence research company Fast Forward Labs, Hilary Mason is the Data-Scientist-in-residence at Accel, and the former Chief... 06 April 2016 10 min read
Hugh Bin-Haad Relational Algebra and its implications for NoSQL databases With the rise of NoSQL databases that are exploiting aspects of SQL for querying, and are embracing full transactionality, is... 01 April 2016 4 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 51 – Bearding the Lion This lot look utterly speechless – but that’s where you come in! Leave a caption below and the funniest will... 23 March 2016 1 min read
Simple Talk Editor The 2015/2016 Simple-Talk Awards Once more it is time for our readers to vote on the top nominations for the Simple Talk Awards. Here... 22 March 2016 5 min read
Richard Morris Martin Odersky: Geek of the Week Martin Odersky is a German computer scientist who specializes in code analysis and programming languages. He is most famous for... 20 March 2016 7 min read
