Damon Armstrong Incorrect Client ID in SharePoint App Package Interesting issue today. I was attempting to install a SharePoint app today and ran into the following error: 8fff7a1f-f0ea-4d73-8c7d-aa97279b6d20 Stack... 16 June 2015 1 min read
Melanie Townsend Change Scripts Research How do you use change scripts for your database deployments? This is the question Redgate’s SQL Source Control team is... 15 June 2015 1 min read
Louis Davidson ANY and ALL, Two Keywords I Had Never Taken the Time to Understand As I am starting to prepare for an upcoming blog series on database designs and associated query patterns (stay tuned!)... 13 June 2015 12 min read
Rodney Landrum A Very Quick Post on SQL Server 2016 Dynamic Data Masking *** Update – Just wanted to say that dynamic data masking has the potential of being a great feature and... 10 June 2015 4 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 30 – Hang Time These two certainly look like fast chums! But what’s going on? It’s up to you to tell us in the... 04 June 2015 1 min read
Tony Davis Test Driving Your Database In any engineering project, you can’t avoid testing your product against reality. A friend who once worked at a car... 04 June 2015 3 min read
Ben Emmett Beta support for ASP.NET 5 DNX projects in ANTS profilers This post was about beta releases of ANTS Performance Profiler 9.2 and ANTS Memory Profiler 8.7. You should ignore it,... 04 June 2015 2 min read
Phil Factor UWP: The Platform Formerly Known as Metro Three years ago, I listened to a keynote at a developer conference. The man from Microsoft beamed confidently at the... 21 May 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 29 – Ladies of the Lake What a beautiful idyll! What a beautiful crossbow! What a lovely day for a caption competition. The funniest comment left... 21 May 2015 1 min read
Dennes Torres Using Optimize for ad-hoc workloads SQL Server caches the executio plan of our queries, not only stored procedures, but also ad hoc queries. However, when... 10 May 2015 3 min read
Louis Davidson Classic Music, Attractions, and Presentations: Presenting on Database Design at SQL Saturday Atlanta 2015 This next two weeks are going to be awesome. May 11, I get to see the Who for probably the... 08 May 2015 3 min read
Jason Crease The Brian Keller VM – Try out Microsoft’s ALM stack easily Why do I need this? Microsoft sells a range of tools to support a project from ideation to release and... 08 May 2015 4 min read
Tony Davis The Art of the Author When tidying out an old cupboard a few weeks ago, one after another I casually tossed outdated, dusty technical books... 07 May 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 28 – The Eyes Have It A strange glimpse of a dark, ovoid future? A warning from the past? You decide! Best caption wins a $50... 07 May 2015 1 min read
Ben Emmett Setting up Windows 10 IoT Core on Raspberry Pi from a VM Following Build last week, I wanted to try running Universal Apps on a Raspberry Pi 2, but the setup instructions... 03 May 2015 3 min read
Dennes Torres Why you should always use schema name in queries There is a very important reason to always use the schema name in the queries. For example, the following sintax... 30 April 2015 3 min read
Tony Davis Taming Transaction Logzilla A transaction log, if sized sensibly, is like a ring buffer. It will stay the same size however much data... 24 April 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 27 – Well, would you look at that Tinker, teacher, presenter, host? Who is this man and what is he pointing to? Caption this scene in the comments,... 23 April 2015 1 min read
Damon Armstrong High Trust Certificate Error Adding App to Site in SharePoint I was deploying a SharePoint App-Model app in my development environment. It went into the catalog just fine, but it... 22 April 2015 2 min read
Dennes Torres Looking for outdated statistics Outdated statistics are a major cause of bad query plans in SQL Server’s. Even when we have ‘Auto Update Statistics’... 20 April 2015 3 min read