Andrew Clarke Virtual Irony for Oracle Where’s Oracle VM 3, and why should you be waiting for it? Here lies a puzzling story. On May 13,... 12 April 2011 3 min read
Mike Mooney The Framework Myth If ever there was an irresistible programmer's platitude, it is that code-reuse is invariably a good thing. Unfortunately, even the... 07 April 2011 19 min read
Nick Harrison A Developers’ Guide to Refactoring Databases When Agile meets 'Big Design', the result can be frustration on both sides. Is it possible for database development to... 04 April 2011 15 min read
Tony Davis An Agile House of Straw The ideal Agile application developer welcomes changing requirements, even late in development. The DBA or Database Developer doesn’t. Why is... 31 March 2011 3 min read
Richard Morris Steve Furber: Geek of the Week Professor Stephen Byram Furber CBE, FRS, FREng was one of the designers of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit... 28 March 2011 12 min read
Tony Davis New Wine in New Bottles How many people, when their car shows signs of wear and tear, would consider upgrading the engine and keeping the... 17 March 2011 3 min read
Andrew Clarke The Hot-Add Memory Hogs One of the more difficult tasks, when virtualizing a server, is to determine the amount of memory that Hypervisor should... 15 March 2011 2 min read
Andrew Clarke Opportunity Nokia’s Nokia’s alliance with Microsoft is likely to be good news for anyone using Microsoft technologies, and particularly for .NET developers.... 17 February 2011 2 min read
Bob Cramblitt Red Gate’s new Scary DBA: Coming to a town near you Grant Fritchey, The Scary DBA, has now taken the leap from being a Simple-Talk author and FoRG(Friend of Red Gate)... 16 February 2011 5 min read
Richard Morris Rob Pike: Geek of the Week Rob Pike's contribution to Information Technology has been profound, both through the famous books he co-authored with Brian Kernighan, and... 17 January 2011 14 min read
Tony Davis Head in the Clouds We’re just past the second anniversary of the launch of Windows Azure. A couple of years’ experience with Azure in... 07 January 2011 3 min read
Richard Morris Roland Waddilove: Geek of the Week A whole generation of British geeks owe a debt of gratitude to Roland Waddilove. He is a journalist with a... 21 December 2010 13 min read
Tony Davis Emoti-phrases Surely the next radical step in the development of User-interface design is for applications to react appropriately to the rising... 09 December 2010 3 min read
Richard Morris Jorge Segarra: DBA of the Day Jorge Segarra, also known on Twitter as 'SQLChicken', was one of the finalists of the Exceptional DBA award this year.... 26 November 2010 13 min read
Tony Davis SA no more! Despite it being such an obvious security problem, developers still use the sa login, or assign sysadmin privileges to their... 28 October 2010 2 min read
Tony Davis Best Practice and Judgement Until the recent promise of generally-available broadband, the industry had to wrestle with the task of providing a solution to... 19 October 2010 3 min read
Richard Morris Kevan Riley: DBA of the Day When the ASK.SQLServerCentral.com site started, something magical happened. A band of DBA and developer volunteers got together to ensure the... 18 October 2010 13 min read
Tony Davis Oracle whistles a different tune It is sometimes refreshing to crawl out from the hothouse of SQL Server to take a look at other platforms.... 01 October 2010 3 min read
Richard Morris Dr Byron Cook: Geek of the Week On moving to Cambridge University after developing the SLAM model checker used by Microsoft's Static Driver Verifier, Dr Bryan Cook's... 27 September 2010 16 min read
Richard Morris Ted Krueger: DBA of the Day Ted Krueger is well known for his 'Less-Than Dot' website. He is a SQL Server MVP who has been working... 15 September 2010 12 min read
