Michael Williamson Phil Wise Bureaucracy-Free Software Development Could it be that, if you adopt Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, then much of the bureaucracy... 27 February 2013 14 min read
Tony Davis Making PASS tick… On the final day of a hectic PASS Summit 2012, in Seattle, I caught up with Bill Graziano (@billgraziano), Douglas... 05 February 2013 1 min read
Andrew Clarke On taking a more nuanced approach to Cloud services. Although it makes a lot of sense for an IT department to use the Cloud where possible instead of using... 28 January 2013 2 min read
Kat Hicks Interviewing Tips for a Database Position Interviewing for a database position is a careful game of give and take. Knowing what to expect and how to... 22 January 2013 15 min read
Tony Davis Getting backs up about backups I’ve been leafing with interest through the book, Pro Data Backup and Recovery, by Steve Nelson. For anyone predisposed to... 17 January 2013 3 min read
Joel Cochran A Sudden Move: One developer’s journey from C# to JavaScript JavaScript is 'tragically important' because, although it is inherently flawed, it is used everywhere because it allows the developer to... 13 December 2012 9 min read
James Moore The Benefits of Regular Deployment When developing software, it makes sense to 'fail early, fail often'; to become aware of mistakes quickly and to learn... 13 December 2012 14 min read
Tony Davis SQL Server Optimizer Malfunction? There was a sharp intake of breath from the audience when Adam Machanic declared the SQL Server optimizer to be... 06 December 2012 3 min read
Richard Morris Bill Baker: Geek of the Week Bill Baker had a considerable influence on the way that SQL Server evolved to deliver reporting services and business intelligence.... 04 December 2012 8 min read
Tony Davis So it comes to PASS… How does your company gauge the benefit of attending a technical conference? What’s the best change you made as a... 02 November 2012 2 min read
Richard Morris Jeffrey Snover: Geek of the Week PowerShell has radically improved the ease of monitoring and adminstering Windows-based servers, and automating routine processes. The visionary leader of... 23 October 2012 10 min read
Richard Morris Alex Payne: Big in the IT Business Alex Payne worked on developing Twitter for three years. When he started, it was a small side-project: When he left,... 15 October 2012 11 min read
Tony Davis Data Model Dissonance So often at the start of the development of database applications, there is a premature rush to the keyboard. Unless,... 12 October 2012 3 min read
Richard Morris Bertrand Meyer: Geek of the Week Bertrand Meyer, the author of 'Object-oriented Software Construction', renowned teacher, and designer of the Eiffel programming language, believes in simple... 17 September 2012 13 min read
Tony Davis Monitoring the Application alongside SQL Server Sometimes, on Simple-Talk, it takes a while to spot strange and unexpected patterns of user activity, or small bugs. For... 14 September 2012 3 min read
Richard Morris Meredith Ryan: DBA of the Day Meredith Ryan - DBA at the Bell Group -was elected by judges and the SQL Server community as the Exceptional... 14 September 2012 12 min read
Buck Woody The Value of Professional Associations If you're a technical professional, it is a good idea to belong to a professional association. There are several to... 31 August 2012 12 min read
Jeremy Jarrell Looking Back; or How to Improve Your Team with Retrospectives Instead of waiting until the end of a project to ask 'what worked and what didn't, why not use regular... 23 August 2012 11 min read
Tony Davis Fear of the Unknown Codebase It is inevitable that anyone who inherits responsibility for an application will experience that feeling of nagging apprehension. Some signs... 17 August 2012 2 min read
Opinion Pieces Buck Woody in Opinion Pieces Learn Where You Are In order to make progress in your career in IT, you need to actively plan your professional development rather then... 03 August 2012 10 min read
