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Dennes Torres Looking for outdated statistics Outdated statistics are a major cause of bad query plans in SQL Server’s. Even when we have ‘Auto Update Statistics’... 20 April 2015 3 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA – Responsibility Whose fault is it if a database is hacked and its contents appear on a hacker’s site? Sure, the hacker... 16 April 2015 3 min read
Dennes Torres How to query Included columns and more index metadata I’m from the age when sp_help and it’s variants could give to us almost any information about the database objects.... 13 April 2015 4 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 26 – They Promised Me A Jetpack In this breathless rush towards the future, there are bound to be a few mistakes along the way. This certainly... 09 April 2015 1 min read
Phil Factor The Database Neighbours From Hell In the Windows environment, there seems little safer for application design than a rather staid single-tiered architecture making ODBC/JDBC calls... 09 April 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 25 – Held for Inspection What wondrous magic is this? Something very small, or is he very large? Caption the scene with an ingenious quip... 26 March 2015 1 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA – Empathy Every project I am on, there seems to be a common argument. The project manager is pushing to get done... 24 March 2015 4 min read
Louis Davidson Off to Richmond for SQL Saturday I got the email prodding speakers to blog about our upcoming sessions, so I got myself up and started to... 13 March 2015 3 min read
Phil Factor Converting XML files to YAML or PSON The other day, I needed to convert a whole stack of XML files to YAML. Actually , I would have... 13 March 2015 3 min read
Tony Davis One Man’s Panacea is another Man’s Poison It can be dispiriting when we see the IT Industry take genuine attempts to solve problems, and turn them into... 13 March 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 24 – The Shape of Things to Come The world of tomorrow! What wonders are these two creating from naught but will, determination, and vast round of seed... 13 March 2015 1 min read
Damon Armstrong Fixing “An update error has occurred” When Modifying Alternate Access Mappings in SharePoint A while back, I made change to my SharePoint configuration to modify my alternate access mappings. For some unknown reason,... 12 March 2015 2 min read
Phil Factor For the Love of Stored Procedures It is an exaggeration to say that I like stored procedures. They are an essential if somewhat dangerous part of... 27 February 2015 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 23 – Remote Viewing It is time once again for you to gaze upon an intriguing scene and let us know what’s happening, in... 27 February 2015 1 min read
Damon Armstrong Get-WFFarm and Troubleshooting Register-SPWorklfowService I was helping a colleague configure workflow on his SharePoint development environment when we ran into an issue running the... 17 February 2015 2 min read
Damon Armstrong Fixing the “Content Processing Pipeline Failed to Process the Item" and "Cannot Load Wordbreaker for en or the Fall Back" Errors in SharePoint Search I was attempting to search for something in my development SharePoint farm and couldn’t find it. So I ran the... 16 February 2015 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 22 – The Old Man and the C# What might these gentlemen be saying to one another? The funniest gets $50 in Amazon vouchers.… 13 February 2015 1 min read
Damon Armstrong SharePoint Apps: Blank Page Displayed when Navigating to App I was trying to get a SharePoint app up and running in our environment but was running into a bit... 10 February 2015 2 min read
