Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 31 – The Amazing-ish Race These olde-timey vehicles wait for nothing – except your comments. Tell us what’s going on here – as ever, the... 17 June 2015 1 min read
Louis Davidson Time to Start Plotting My 2016 Database Design Book Note: A new version has been talked about for years, but it is not a guarantee. This post is my... 16 June 2015 8 min read
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
Dennes Torres Send SQL Server query results to Excel through email Dennes Torres explains how to send SQL Server query results to Excel. It seems easy, but there is a catch!… 01 June 2015 3 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
