Bob Cramblitt The Future of Reflector Simple Talk asked freelance writer Bob Cramblitt to sit down with the two people behind the agreement that Red Gate... 20 August 2008 5 min read
Richard Morris Andrew Tanenbaum: Geek of the Week Andrew Tanenbaum has had an immense influence on the way that operating systems are designed. He provided the inspiration for... 14 August 2008 9 min read
Richard Morris Ross Anderson: Geek of the Week Professor Ross Anderson is one of the foremost experts in Computer Security in the world. He has published widely on... 31 July 2008 13 min read
Tony Davis The myth of over-normalization I’ve always been suspicious of denormalizing an OLTP database. Denormalisation is a strange activity that is supposed to take place... 21 July 2008 3 min read
Richard Morris Linus Torvalds: Geek of the Week Linus Torvalds is remarkable, not only for being the technical genius who wrote Linux, but for then being able to... 17 July 2008 23 min read
Tony Davis VB.NET: The Ugly Duckling One of the greatest pleasures of programming in C# is that wonderful, giddy, feeling of superiority one has over VB.NET... 08 July 2008 3 min read
Richard Morris Dr Richard Hipp, Geek of the Week Simple-Talk's Geek of the Week is Dr Richard Hipp. His code is probably running on your PC, and running completely... 04 July 2008 13 min read
Anna Larjomaa The First Business Application Programmer David Caminer, who died on June 19th must surely be the First Business Application Programmer. He invented the software concepts... 02 July 2008 10 min read
Tony Davis SQL Server Tumbleweed Awards Several parts of SQL Server look as though they were started and then suddenly abandoned. The classic example is the... 24 June 2008 3 min read
Richard Morris Tim Berners-Lee, Geek of the Week We interview Simple-Talk's Geek of the Week, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA. , ranked first in... 20 June 2008 11 min read
Tony Davis CLR, beer and turkey It is strange that two important programming techniques in a SQL Server Database can’t be done in TSQL. The first... 06 June 2008 2 min read
Tony Davis The Object-oriented Orthodoxy and the DBA Server Management Objects (SMO) is a very impressive product. SMO (and its previous incarnation, SQL-DMO) is essentially an object-oriented interface... 27 May 2008 2 min read
Richard Morris Risking your Reputation IT companies sometimes don't survive an incident that damages their reputation. Often, when happenstance brings a commercial disaster, businesses make... 27 May 2008 11 min read
Tony Davis The DBA Daily Checklist The average DBA has to perform many routine checks on his or her servers. There will be daily checks, weekly... 13 May 2008 2 min read
Tony Davis Bad Database Security The Daily WTF recently reported that the Sexual and Violent Offender Registry of Oklahoma had to shut down its website... 29 April 2008 2 min read
Phil Factor The Time Bomb Phil cheerfully admits to his fair share of accidental IT disasters. His experiences some time ago with the Time Bomb,... 29 April 2008 8 min read
Richard Morris The Burning Men – The IT drug habit It would seem bizzare that IT staff who depend on their quick wits for their living should ever think it... 29 April 2008 10 min read
Tony Davis The best and worst ways to optimize your code I was chatting to Phil Factor the other day about the slow start-up of some CLR applications. He started telling... 16 April 2008 3 min read
Richard Morris Blogged to death Suddenly, Bloggers aren't just writing the news, they are the news. Are we expected to believe that the pressures of... 14 April 2008 10 min read
Tony Davis That ain’t a database, it’s a spreadsheet! “That ain’t a database, it’s a spreadsheet!” From the Sayings of Phil Factor There is a world of difference between... 01 April 2008 3 min read
