Dennes Torres The news about the first day of PASS Summit Once again, I have the opportunity to attend to this wonderful conference in Seattle, fully of new information about our... 29 October 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 40 – Barrel of Laughs Man, machinery and…murder? Help us get to the bottom of this curious scene through the medium of caption. As ever,... 22 October 2015 1 min read
Damon Armstrong Getting the Absolute URL of a File in CSOM Sometimes you need the absolute URL of a file in SharePoint, and if you happen to just have the absolute... 20 October 2015 2 min read
Jason Crease How to Create Ten 200GB Test Databases in 60 Seconds In a recent survey run on community site SQL Server Central, 58% of respondents admitted that their test database is... 14 October 2015 4 min read
Tony Davis Avoiding Continuous Disintegration A build is a regular health-check for the database. If all is well, then automated builds will run regularly and... 09 October 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 39 – In The Drawing Room An idyllic scene – but wait! Something’s not quite right. The funniest response nets a $50 Amazon voucher, and we’ll... 09 October 2015 1 min read
Damon Armstrong Key Points to Know When Using SP.SOD.executeFunc and SP.SOD.executeOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded So there I was trying to get SharePoint’s script on demand (SOD) working correctly and I thought I had it... 05 October 2015 3 min read
Louis Davidson Thank *you* for my SQL Server MVP Award… Today, I was awarded (at least) one more time with the Microsoft MVP Award. This makes 12 years, and with... 01 October 2015 6 min read
Louis Davidson Heading to Orlando for SQL Saturday again this year Last year, I attended SQL Saturday Orlando again after missing a few years (I did my first database design precon... 26 September 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 38 – Those Magnificent Men Your task? To provide amusing, perhaps technology-related captioning for the scene below. Your prize? A cool $50 in Amazon vouchers.... 25 September 2015 1 min read
Phil Factor Soft Skills for the Developer (Guest Editorial for the Simple-Talk newsletter) In the rush to recruit a developer to fill a gaping void in a... 11 September 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 37 – Ex Libris Live-action Cluedo? An overzealous scalp rejuvenation treatment? Tell us what’s going on – best answer gets a $50 Amazon voucher.… 11 September 2015 1 min read
Amy Burrows Locking objects in SQL Server As my colleague James said in a recent blog post: “If you share a database with other developers, chances are... 03 September 2015 3 min read
Phil Factor Typoglycemia: The PowerShell and the SQL Typoglycemia is the ironic name, (derived from Hypoglycemia) given to the phenomenon that many readers can understand the meaning of... 30 August 2015 5 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 36 – Dutch Courage The editors of Simple-Talk are not above a snifter of sherry (some even say it fires up the mind), but... 28 August 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis Building Databases: One Man's Best Practice? In software development, one man’s meat is often another man’s poison. We come across a technique and it works for... 14 August 2015 3 min read
Louis Davidson Snapshot Isolation Level and Concurrent Modification Collisions – On Disk and In Memory OLTP This is part 1 of my In Memory OLTP blogs for my upcoming book project. In this blog I want... 13 August 2015 13 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 35 – Moonstruck We all need a laugh from time to time, apart from this guy – he clearly has enough going on.... 13 August 2015 1 min read
Dennes Torres Be careful when exchanging old text field by varchar(max) Image and Text fields are deprecated and should be replaced by varchar(max) and varbinary(max), but there are details about how... 10 August 2015 6 min read
Ben Emmett Beta release of C#6 support in .NET Reflector .NET Reflector 9 has now been released, so this beta program is no longer active – you can read more... 05 August 2015 2 min read
