Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA – Decorations I was whistling contentedly as I hung up the Christmas Decorations. It may have been ‘Jingle Bells’, or it could... 22 December 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 44 – All Ears Ahoy-hoy! The odd communication breakdown is unavoidable, and that certainly looks to be the case for these two, but what... 18 December 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis Workplace Politics The IT workplace can often be stressful when untoward things happen. Maybe, it is business managers who demand new platforms,... 18 December 2015 3 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For a DBA – Manners Manners, learned as soon as possible in life, give us social skills without us having to figure them out. While... 15 December 2015 6 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 43 – Where There’s Smoke We’re back with yet another peculiar picture to quell your caption-based cravings. Give it a go and the most amusing... 03 December 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis Squaring the NoSQL Circle NoSQL was a bold new revolution. Many of these databases are schema-less, or rather the schema is implicitly defined by... 03 December 2015 3 min read
Louis Davidson Dragged Kicking and Screaming into the Clouds When I first heard about the cloud I rolled my eyes. This will never take, it sounds very much like... 02 December 2015 5 min read
Chris Whitworth Profiling the Profilers – Part 2: Anonymous Functions, Accidental Captures and Compiler-Generated Code In the previous post, I looked at tracking down and fixing a memory leak in ANTS Performance Profiler; .NET memory... 02 December 2015 11 min read
Chris Whitworth Profiling the Profilers – Part 1: My Timeline has a Memory Leak! During the final stages of testing for a recent release, a member of our team noticed that memory usage in... 02 December 2015 7 min read
Elizabeth Ayer SQL Source Control: You Can Help Us Complete the Picture We released SQL Source Control v4.1 recently with dramatically improved Git support and it’s already receiving praise. Typical of the... 02 December 2015 4 min read
James Gilmore Reflector 9.0 Released: What We Learned About C# 6 Last week we released .NET Reflector 9.0. As Ben Emmett explained in his blog post, we’ve been working on support... 27 November 2015 6 min read
Phil Factor The SQL of the Feast Days of Western Christendom I’ve been intrigued for a long time by the Christian feasts. Nowadays, we start getting excited about Christmas around July,... 24 November 2015 8 min read
Damon Armstrong Missing or Invalid property value for $(MsDeployServiceUrl) Building SharePoint Apps I was using an automated build to package up a SharePoint App when I received the following error: Missing or... 23 November 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 42 – Not to Alarm You What could have caused this cataclysmic scene? And what might these two gents be discussing? Give us your best guess... 20 November 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis Issue Tracking Systems: Good Servant, Bad Master Over time, many bug and issue tracking systems decline into a graveyard for bug-reports, a place where problems are buried... 19 November 2015 3 min read
Louis Davidson Post PASS Summit Resolutions Many years I have tried early in the year to list a set of “New Year’s Resolutions” but one thing... 09 November 2015 6 min read
Louis Davidson PASS/MVP Summits Reflections Wow, it was great actually getting out to the summits this year. Sitting here in the SEATAC airport, waiting for... 06 November 2015 6 min read
James Billings SQL Source Control and Git In a recent blog post my colleague and SQL Server MVP Steve Jones said “It seems as though Git is... 05 November 2015 6 min read
Phil Factor Late in the Day for a DBA I first met Joe when I went to Woodworking evening classes several years ago. I saw him from across the... 05 November 2015 4 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 41 – Spirited Solution How have this bunch been driven to drinking? Tell us what you think might have happened and our favourite response... 05 November 2015 1 min read
