Tony Davis In Pursuit of Simplicity Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) are an incredibly valuable addition to the DBA’s troubleshooting armory, laying bare previously unavailable information regarding... 17 February 2009 3 min read
Richard Morris Michael Meeks: Geek of the Week Richard Morris talks to Michael Meeks, a young Geek who has made a huge impact on the quality of Open... 09 February 2009 14 min read
Tony Davis The Publishing Maul Over recent years, Agile development and Scrum have been championed by some developers, and various consulting firms, with a quasi-religious... 03 February 2009 3 min read
Phil Factor Phrenetic Phil and the SQL Shootout Phil Factor turns to burlesque in order to reinforce his point that an ability to answer SQL Technical questions isn't... 03 February 2009 7 min read
David Craig Free Download of David Craig’s book Simple Talk gives their subscribers an exclusive Ebook, Rip Off! by David Craig worth £8.50… 30 January 2009 1 min read
Tony Davis Beg, Borrow, Steal before Build The art of developing an application, or maintaining a database server, really consists of finding ways of postponing or avoiding... 26 January 2009 3 min read
Richard Morris Larry Gonick: Geek of the Week Cartoonist, mathematician, historian and environmentalist. Larry Gonick proved that learning could be fun by producing a wide range of educational... 08 January 2009 11 min read
TJay Belt Can Twitter Help your Professional Development? At PASS this year, there was a great deal of 'twittering' going on. Effectively, the attendants were able to broadcast... 16 December 2008 14 min read
Richard Morris Bjarne Stroustrup: Geek of the Week Without Bjarne Stroustrup, object-oriented programming would have taken much longer to gain mainstream acceptance. Bjarne wrote and popularised 'C with... 12 December 2008 16 min read
Richard Morris Verity Stob: Geek of the Week Real geeks read Verity Stob. Verity writes her painfully funny invective from a powerful advantage, she is a geek herself,... 27 November 2008 16 min read
Tony Davis PASS 2008 Keynote, Part 1: Wayne Snyder This is the first full day of the PASS 2008 conference in the wonderful city of Seattle. After a great... 19 November 2008 2 min read
Tony Davis Building Technical Communities The SQLServerCentral technical forums have matured and evolved over the course of many years. They were initially stoked by the... 11 November 2008 3 min read
Stephan Onisick Taking Back Control of your IT Career It can, and does, happen during the average IT career. Suddenly you have lost your job. It is a time... 06 November 2008 22 min read
Brad McGehee Tech-Fest of Champions: How to run a community IT conference Everybody who attended seems to speak well of the IndyTechFest. It is a great example of how to organise a... 04 November 2008 15 min read
Phil Factor The Data Center that Exploded A while back, in a Simple-Talk editorial meeting, someone bet Phil that he couldn't come up with a Halloween story.... 28 October 2008 10 min read
Tony Davis Reasons to Deprecate I’m happy to see features and services of SQL Server deprecated by Microsoft if it is for a good reason.... 24 October 2008 3 min read
Richard Morris ‘Peli’ de Halleux: Geek of the Week It is extraordinary how much 'Peli' has achieved in a short space of time. Here, our choice for Geek of... 21 October 2008 9 min read
Brian Harris Chrome Browser: A Novel Approach to Language As a Technical Author, one of the most important tasks that you face is to make the language of applications... 16 September 2008 5 min read
Richard Morris Kalen Delaney: Geek of the Week Kalen Delaney has been involved in SQL Server from the beginning. Her talks and her writings are always interesting but,... 16 September 2008 14 min read
Joe Webb Creating Technical Presentations Making a technical presentation is like being interviewed. It is not a skill that you are likely to need often,... 01 September 2008 21 min read
