Carly Meichen What’s in Your Project Folder? I think that almost every developer likes to try out a new computer language occasionally. Many devs that I’ve spoken... 04 February 2016 3 min read
Louis Davidson SQL Saturday 489 Tampa-“How to Design a Relational Database” Precon On February 26, I will be doing my "How to Design a Relational Database" pre-conference session in Tampa, FL. You... 04 February 2016 6 min read
Louis Davidson Dynamic Data Masking – Part 1 – The Mechanism This is part 1 of my Dynamic Data Masking blogs for my upcoming book project. Part 2 is here. An... 01 February 2016 11 min read
Damon Armstrong Fixing the File Not Found Error Opening a SharePoint Site with Spaces in the URL using Site.OpenWeb I was investigating a bug in the SharePoint app I’m working on where a function was failing on sites with... 28 January 2016 2 min read
Tony Davis A Database to Diagram for I’m no database designer but I do occasionally need to build a very simple database model, no more than a... 28 January 2016 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 47 – Killer Crustaceans Looks like these two are in a bit of a pinch! But how did they end up in such decapodous... 28 January 2016 1 min read
Dennes Torres Are your check constraints trustable ? SQL Server keeps a record to identify if a check constraint is trustable or not. When all the records in... 24 January 2016 3 min read
Louis Davidson Is It Ever Better to Not Name Constraints? This is part 1 of my Tips and Tricks blogs for my upcoming book project. For all of my professional... 19 January 2016 3 min read
Phil Factor De-duplicating Delimited Lists in SQL Server Aaron Bertrand came up with the interesting problem of removing duplicates from lists of strings in his article 'Removing Duplicates... 19 January 2016 7 min read
Damon Armstrong Making SharePoint App Access Token Caching work in MVC I’ve put together a couple of SharePoint Apps that use MVC to run the remote web application. When you use... 14 January 2016 2 min read
Tony Davis Real Developer Heroics One of the strange paradoxes of team development is that effort beyond the call of duty is generally discouraged. Developers... 14 January 2016 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 46 – Do or Dye If you’re not careful, you can end up impulse-buying all sorts of things in the January sales! Leave a comment... 14 January 2016 1 min read
Damon Armstrong Utility for Renaming Visual Studio Windows Gimmal has a wide array of products, and most of those products have gone through multiple releases. This means that... 13 January 2016 1 min read
Carly Meichen .NET Core .NET Core is more interesting than the name might suggest. Whereas the .NET framework provides a consistent runtime for all... 08 January 2016 3 min read
Daniel Nolan Kicking the Habit of Shared-Database Development As application developers, it’s fairly well established that having a private environment to develop and debug changes is a good... 07 January 2016 5 min read
Damon Armstrong SharePoint CSOM: Fixing the “Value does not fall within the expected range” Error Calling GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl There are times when you just need to get a reference to a folder in the master page gallery of... 06 January 2016 2 min read
Louis Davidson Less than Two Weeks to SQL Saturday Nashville! No sooner does the official holiday season end than SQL Saturday season begins. Next week on January 9 is the... 03 January 2016 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 45 – Take Aim Out hunting? An execution? Self defence? Leave a comment with your best guess at what’s going on and our favourite... 31 December 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis The Genuine Article On Simple-Talk, we try to make sure that Information Technology is presented in an interesting way. We all tend to... 31 December 2015 3 min read
Dennes Torres Compress and Decompress in SQL Server 2016 SQL Server 2016 ctp 3.2 is already available with a lot of news. One of the new features available is... 24 December 2015 3 min read
