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
Richard Morris Chet Ramey: Geek of the Week The BASH shell is the most popular UNIX command-line scriptable shell. It became the inspiration for PowerShell. As with so... 14 December 2015 10 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 43 – Where There’s Smoke We’re back with yet another peculiar picture to quell your caption-based cravings. Give it a go and the most amusing... 03 December 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis Squaring the NoSQL Circle NoSQL was a bold new revolution. Many of these databases are schema-less, or rather the schema is implicitly defined by... 03 December 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 42 – Not to Alarm You What could have caused this cataclysmic scene? And what might these two gents be discussing? Give us your best guess... 20 November 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis Issue Tracking Systems: Good Servant, Bad Master Over time, many bug and issue tracking systems decline into a graveyard for bug-reports, a place where problems are buried... 19 November 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 41 – Spirited Solution How have this bunch been driven to drinking? Tell us what you think might have happened and our favourite response... 05 November 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 40 – Barrel of Laughs Man, machinery and…murder? Help us get to the bottom of this curious scene through the medium of caption. As ever,... 22 October 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis Avoiding Continuous Disintegration A build is a regular health-check for the database. If all is well, then automated builds will run regularly and... 09 October 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 39 – In The Drawing Room An idyllic scene – but wait! Something’s not quite right. The funniest response nets a $50 Amazon voucher, and we’ll... 09 October 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 38 – Those Magnificent Men Your task? To provide amusing, perhaps technology-related captioning for the scene below. Your prize? A cool $50 in Amazon vouchers.... 25 September 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 37 – Ex Libris Live-action Cluedo? An overzealous scalp rejuvenation treatment? Tell us what’s going on – best answer gets a $50 Amazon voucher.… 11 September 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 36 – Dutch Courage The editors of Simple-Talk are not above a snifter of sherry (some even say it fires up the mind), but... 28 August 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis Building Databases: One Man's Best Practice? In software development, one man’s meat is often another man’s poison. We come across a technique and it works for... 14 August 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 35 – Moonstruck We all need a laugh from time to time, apart from this guy – he clearly has enough going on.... 13 August 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 34 – Bold As Brass This man has some fine, fine whiskers. But that’s not really why we’re here – we want you to tell... 30 July 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 33 – Not All Hat An idyllic stroll in the countryside, in the rain. What could be better? Many things, clearly. But what’s going on... 16 July 2015 1 min read
Joe Celko SQL Style Habits: Attack of the Skeuomorphs Although we like to think that our programming techniques are progressive and in tune with the bleeding edge of software... 14 July 2015 13 min read
Richard Morris Philip Greenspun: Geek of the Week Philip Greenspun is probably best known to other geeks for his Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently complicated C or... 14 July 2015 19 min read
Tony Davis The Railmap Towards Easier Query Tuning? Recently, I’ve been getting more and more engrossed in SQL Server Execution plans for various reasons, including editing the forthcoming... 03 July 2015 4 min read
