Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition the Fifth Update: Congratulations to Fatherjack who won this competition on July 7 with his caption “Little known fact: the ‘S’ in... 20 June 2014 1 min read
Alex Papadimoulis My month with Release! Alex and his team at Inedo are developing a game - inspired by development strategies like Lean, Agile and DevOps... 16 June 2014 7 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 4: Fist Full of Captions Update: Congrats to rananjali who won with this week’s competition with a caption on migrations. Thanks to everyone who wrote... 06 June 2014 1 min read
Tony Davis We have our standards, and we need them The presenter suddenly broke off. He was midway through his section on how to apply to the relational database the... 06 June 2014 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 3: Caption With a Vengeance Congratulations to Doug Tucker for winning this week’s caption competition with: Having caught yet another developer logged into a production... 23 May 2014 1 min read
Dwain Camps Writing Outstanding Proposals Oftentimes you will be forced to learn how to write proposals without a whole lot of help. You can learn,... 20 May 2014 16 min read
Konrad Lukasik Branching and Merging: Ten Pretty-Good Practices In the course of rescuing a development from 'merge misery', it became increasingly apparent that there were a number of... 13 May 2014 10 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 2: The Captioning Update! This competition is now closed. The winner was jkeefe with “Here’s a shot of our intrepid DBA personally testing... 09 May 2014 1 min read
Mike Mooney What is DevOps really? Ops and Development people are busy, and focussed on their jobs. They have plenty of ideas for improving the whole... 08 May 2014 13 min read
Jonathan Allen Jonathan Allen's Top 10 Favourite Simple Talk Articles We asked several well-known readers of Simple-Talk to write about their all-time top ten favourite articles from Simple-Talk, and why... 06 May 2014 9 min read
Buck Woody Which New Technology Should I Chase? It is a question that almost anybody working in IT occasionally ask themselves. 'How can I best develop my career... 06 May 2014 18 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition UPDATE: Congrats to Conan who won this caption competition with: “Darling, now that you’re working from home, you can just... 25 April 2014 2 min read
Tony Davis The Body in the Trunk When one considers that the primary purpose of a modern Source Control system is to allow branches and subsequent merges,... 25 April 2014 3 min read
Hugh Bin-Haad We don’t need Source Control: we’re Database Developers As part of our long-running series of articles where we ask working database developers how database source control improves their... 01 April 2014 7 min read
Tony Davis D.R.Y. with SQL Scripts Developers strive to write well-tested, reusable code with well-defined interfaces so that when they need to update the functionality, they... 28 March 2014 3 min read
Tony Davis Build, Buy or Rent? In the pioneering years of the PC industry, people mainly created for themselves whatever tools they needed, because there wasn’t... 14 March 2014 3 min read
Richard Morris Paul Randal: Geek of the Week Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp, together with their small team of experts at SQLSkills.com, dominate the high-end training and consultancy... 10 March 2014 10 min read
Tony Davis DevOps Dilemma The term ‘DevOps’ has been widely misunderstood because the different teams within any really substantial development project understand the work... 14 February 2014 3 min read
Tony Davis Should IT Managers Code? In one of his first ever Simple-talk articles, Phil Factor tells the story of a freelance Sybase programmer who created... 17 January 2014 3 min read
David Poole Technical Debt and the Cultural Gap Sometimes, technical jargon is often so readily understandable by the technical community that they forget that it may be interpreted... 13 January 2014 13 min read
