Jonathan Allen Checking who is connected to your server, with PowerShell. There are many occasions when, as a DBA, you want to see who is connected to your SQL Server, along... 14 August 2014 7 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 9: Carry on Captioning Update: Congratulations to Louis Somers who won the caption competition with “It’s all about having the right tools… Finding Bugs... 14 August 2014 1 min read
Melanie Townsend Conference networking for the socially awkward Do you approach a room full of strangers with excitement at all the new people you’re going to chat to... 13 August 2014 4 min read
Ben Emmett New .NET Library for Accessing the Survey Monkey API I’ve used Survey Monkey’s API for a while, and though it’s pretty powerful, there’s a lot of boilerplate each time... 10 August 2014 5 min read
Louis Davidson How In-Memory Database Objects Affect Database Design: Hybrid Code In my first attempts at building my code, I strictly went with either native or on-disk code. I specifically wrote... 08 August 2014 6 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For a DBA – Decisions It’s Friday afternoon, and the lead DBA, a very talented guy, is getting ready to head out for two well-earned... 07 August 2014 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Fixing NativeHR 0x80070002 Error When Retracting or Deploying SharePoint Apps from Visual Studio Sometimes when App deployment fails from Visual Studio you will get the following error when trying to retract or redeploy... 06 August 2014 2 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 8 – Captions Take Manhattan Update: Congratulations to Dimitrios for winning this week’s caption competition. It’s that time again. We present a bucolic scene, you... 01 August 2014 1 min read
Tony Davis Interviews: Going Beyond the Technical Quiz All developers will be familiar with the basic format of a technical interview. After a bout of CV-trawling to gauge... 31 July 2014 3 min read
Michelle Taylor Compare those hard-to-reach servers with SQL Snapper If you’ve got an environment which is at the end of an unreliable or slow network connection, or isn’t connected... 21 July 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA – Moments “Do one thing every day that scares you” – Eleanor Roosevelt Laudable as these sentiments are, inspirational even, most DBAs... 17 July 2014 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 7 – No Clever Subtitle Edition Update: Congratulations to WilliamII who won the caption competition on August 4 with his caption: Marketing tell me it won’t... 17 July 2014 1 min read
Phil Factor On Identifying the Real Stakeholders When it is appropriate, I’m sold on the idea of evolutionary development and delivery based on iterative and incremental phases... 17 July 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson Speaking on 7/25 for the Nashville SQL Server User Group: How In-Memory Database Objects Affect Database Design So I have blogged about it, and I have prepared for it, and next Friday at lunch time I will... 16 July 2014 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Does System.IO.Path.GetFileName Work on Network Paths and URLs? Yes it does, but it’s going to return everything after the last slash in the string. This means if you... 14 July 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Simple Talk Users Survey 2014 We are committed to making sure Simple-Talk has great content that you want to read. For this reason, we produce... 09 July 2014 1 min read
Louis Davidson How In-Memory Database Objects Affect Database Design: Uniqueness The first issue that arose in my tests was with the new concurrency model. I started out with the stored... 06 July 2014 9 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 6 – Return of the Captions Update: Congratulations to Doug Tucker who won this competition on July 21 with his caption “Murphy begins to rethink his... 02 July 2014 1 min read
Louis Davidson How In-Memory Database Objects Affect Database Design: Or does it? Before I start describing what I have discovered so far along the way, let’s make a few educated guesses. I... 30 June 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson How In-Memory Database Objects Affect Database Design: The Logical and Physical Models This part is part of an ongoing series of blogs I am writing while preparing to give a presentation based on... 28 June 2014 4 min read
