Melanie Townsend Getting Feedback If you’ve ever worked on a project that you really cared about, you might be able to relate to the... 13 November 2014 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Does Each Call to SP.ClientContext.get_current() Return the Same Instance? I was trying to figure this out for some common code that we are putting together so I ran the... 12 November 2014 1 min read
Damon Armstrong Fixing “Could not Load File or Assembly” Error for CKS Dev Copy to SharePoint Root Command I’ve got a SharePoint solution containing a standard SharePoint solution project and a SharePoint App project. While trying to use... 11 November 2014 1 min read
Matt Hilbert Slaying the beast SQL Compare is the industry standard for comparing and deploying SQL Server database schemas, and is used by 71% of... 11 November 2014 10 min read
Louis Davidson MVP/SQLPASS Summit Wrapup From a Non-Attendee (Or “How I Sort of Attended PASS This Year After All and It Wasn’t as Horrible as it Might... 09 November 2014 6 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 15 – Watson the Telly Congrats to Andre who won this week’s caption competition with: My Dear Watson, I’d wish you’d stop tipping your cigar... 07 November 2014 1 min read
Phil Factor A Better Way of Installing and Updating Windows Packages A guest editorial for Simple-Talk. One of the most obvious drawbacks to Windows is the application update mechanism, or rather... 06 November 2014 3 min read
Tony Davis PASS Summit 14 Dispatches: Azure Machine Learning PASS Summit 14 Day 1 keynote and Joseph Sirosh and Sanjay Somi demo’d Azure Machine Learning (ML) and the drive... 05 November 2014 1 min read
Tony Davis PASS Summit 14 Dispatches: DocumentDB During the PASS Summit 14 keynote, TK “Ranga” Rengarajan mentioned briefly Microsoft’s DocumentDB, a new NoSQL database. I was hoping... 05 November 2014 3 min read
Tom It's your turn to pick the best of the worst Or should that be pick the worst of the worst? Good question because after holing up at Gower Gulch, eating... 04 November 2014 3 min read
Tom Things could be a lot worse than you think After glancing through the dozens of entries in the Best of the Worst DBA competition, Steve Jones and Grant Fritchey... 31 October 2014 2 min read
Melanie Townsend Review Kalen Delaney’s Hekaton Book Update: That’s a wrap! All the review copies available at the moment have been sent out. Remember, you can still... 28 October 2014 1 min read
Jonathan Allen The best piece of equipment you can take to a tech conference If you have some spare time and want to meet me for a beer at a conference we can spend... 27 October 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson Why I am not going to PASS this year This is going to be one of my toughest non-technical posts ever. And the reason it will be difficult will... 25 October 2014 5 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 14 – Back To The Future Congratulations to Dimitrios Kalemis who won this week’s competition with: Hail, Starfleet Admirals! We who are about to use NoSQL... 24 October 2014 1 min read
Jonathan Hickford Tackling the problem of database version drift It is known as ‘database version drift’ or ‘database version creep’. For the best of reasons, the version of the... 23 October 2014 3 min read
Tony Davis To PASS Summit and Beyond In his recent, successful bid to win election to the PASS board, Grant Fritchey (@GFritchey) opened his campaign statement as... 23 October 2014 2 min read
Stephanie Herr A SQL Prompt Trick for SQL Demos I recently attended SQL Saturday in Pittsburgh. It was a great event and I was impressed with the presenters. We... 22 October 2014 4 min read
Matt Hilbert SQL Vs NoSQL – Win a Sombrero THE MEXICAN STANDOFF In my article, Does NoSQL = NoDBA? I asked who would win in the battle for dominance... 21 October 2014 2 min read
Tony Davis Source Code isn't sacred A recent, short article on O’Reilly.com, Before You Refactor suggests that if you think you need to rewrite code, you... 10 October 2014 3 min read
