Tony Davis From NaN to Infinity…and Beyond! It is hard to believe that it was once possible to corrupt a SQL Server Database by storing perfectly normal... 13 April 2010 4 min read
Tony Davis The clock hands of the buffer cache Over a leisurely beer at our local pub, the Waggon and Horses, Phil Factor was holding forth on the esoteric,... 01 April 2010 4 min read
Richard Morris Cristina Cifuentes: Geek of the Week Cristina Cifuentes was already well-known for her work on decompilers before she took the development of Sun Microsystems 'Parfait' bug-checking... 30 March 2010 13 min read
Tony Davis On Writing Blogs Why are so many blogs about IT so difficult to read? Over at SQLServerCentral.com, we do a special subscription-only newsletter... 19 March 2010 3 min read
Richard Morris Doug Crockford: Geek of the Week Doug Crockford is the man behind JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). He is a well-known critic of XML and guides the... 17 March 2010 9 min read
Richard Morris Bernie Cosell: Geek of the Week Bernie Cosell is a networking guy, a careful programmer, and an outstanding debugger who gets the credit, along with Dave... 15 March 2010 14 min read
Alamzeb Khan Software Piracy in Pakistan Alamzeb Khan, our Simple-Talk correspondent in Pakistan, goes undercover to discover the true scale of software piracy in his native... 13 March 2010 10 min read
Tony Davis Music before bells and whistles Why is it that Windows has so much difficulty in finding content on its file system? This is not an... 04 March 2010 3 min read
Richard Morris Rich Hickey: Geek of the Week With Clojure soon to be ported to the .NET framework, as ClojureCLR, we felt that the time had come to... 02 March 2010 8 min read
Tony Davis Inappropriate Updates? A recent Simple-talk article by Kathi Kellenberger dissected the fastest SQL solution, submitted by Peter Larsson as part of Phil... 18 February 2010 4 min read
Richard Morris Bruce Schneier: Geek of the Week If one were to close one's eyes and imagine a BT Executive, one would never conjure up Bruce Schneier. He... 16 February 2010 12 min read
Tony Davis A Plea for Plain English The English language has, within a lifetime, emerged as the ubiquitous ‘international language’ of scientific, political and technical communication. On... 05 February 2010 3 min read
Richard Morris Peter Norvig: Geek of the Week It's likely that you are already using the results of Peter Norvig's work every day, if you search the internet... 03 February 2010 11 min read
Richard Morris Don Syme: Geek of the Week It came as a surprise to many of us when Microsoft pulled from it's hat a rabbit in the form... 19 January 2010 10 min read
Richard Morris Robin Milner: Geek of the Week Although Robin Milner is best known for creating ML, which has evolved into Microsoft's new F# language, he would, had... 14 January 2010 11 min read
Tony Davis Reckless Drivers When I first joined the industry in the late 90’s, Microsoft was in the process of shunting the ODBC driver... 07 January 2010 3 min read
Richard Morris Itzik Ben-Gan: DBA of the Day Itzik Ben-Gan, who was one of our first Geeks of the Week in 2005, is so well known and popular... 06 January 2010 17 min read
Richard Morris Guillaume Laforge: Geek of the Week Guillaume Laforge is the project manager for the development of Groovy and Grails, and the creative force behind it. He... 21 December 2009 12 min read
Tony Davis Paradoxical T-SQL I’ve always taken comfort in the fact that T-SQL belongs to an enlightened age of computer languages in which the... 11 December 2009 2 min read
Richard Morris Donald Knuth: Geek of the Week Donald Knuth is an extraordinary man. As well as inventing 'Literate Programming' and writing the most important textbook on programming... 26 November 2009 14 min read
