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
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 49 – A Quack Getaway Something’s afoot amongst the foothills, but what? and why? Well have a gander and if you think you know, leave... 24 February 2016 1 min read
Richard Morris Barbara Liskov: Geek of the Week Barbara Liskov is one of the great pioneers of Computer Science, She was one of the first US women to... 15 February 2016 8 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 48 – Out of Water Oh dear, this lot don’t look best pleased – but you could! Leave a caption in the comments, and if... 12 February 2016 1 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
Richard Morris Alfred Aho: Geek of the Week Before the advent of PowerShell in Windows, we reached for AWK for those information-processing tasks that required just simple code... 05 February 2016 10 min read
Richard Morris Cleve Moler: Geek of the Week Matlab was never intended as a commercial product when it was first created by Chris Moler while he was a... 05 February 2016 11 min read
Richard Morris David Fitzjarrell: Geek of the Week David Fitzjarrell is well known amongst Oracle developers for his knowledge of database performance tuning and problem solving/resolution. He is... 05 February 2016 10 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
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 47 – Killer Crustaceans Looks like these two are in a bit of a pinch! But how did they end up in such decapodous... 28 January 2016 1 min read
Richard Morris Jon Gay: Geek of the Week Nowadays we see Flash as a rather tiresome relic, because we can now achieve almost the same results by using... 27 January 2016 9 min read
Richard Morris Clive Sinclair: Geek of the Week Although most of the geeks of the IT industry are famous for their software, it was the geeky entrepreneurs that... 21 January 2016 9 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
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 46 – Do or Dye If you’re not careful, you can end up impulse-buying all sorts of things in the January sales! Leave a comment... 14 January 2016 1 min read
Olaf Lewitz Continuous Delivery: Building a Culture of Trust Effective team-based software development has more to do with the organisation than the technology. Teams that must cooperate are most... 12 January 2016 13 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 45 – Take Aim Out hunting? An execution? Self defence? Leave a comment with your best guess at what’s going on and our favourite... 31 December 2015 1 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
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 44 – All Ears Ahoy-hoy! The odd communication breakdown is unavoidable, and that certainly looks to be the case for these two, but what... 18 December 2015 1 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
Simple Talk Editor The Boardgame of Office Politics Sometimes the stress of interdepartmental friction within organisations can get on top of you, especially between the business and IT... 17 December 2015 6 min read
