Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 2: The Captioning Update! This competition is now closed. The winner was jkeefe with “Here’s a shot of our intrepid DBA personally testing... 09 May 2014 1 min read
Michelle Taylor How SQL Server 2014 impacts Red Gate's SQL Compare SQL Compare 10.7 successfully connects to SQL Server 2014, but it doesn’t yet cover the SQL Server 2014 features which... 08 May 2014 4 min read
Tom Crossman What’s new in SQL Prompt 6.3? This post describes some of the improvements we’ve made in the latest version of SQL Prompt. You can download SQL... 07 May 2014 2 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition UPDATE: Congrats to Conan who won this caption competition with: “Darling, now that you’re working from home, you can just... 25 April 2014 2 min read
Tony Davis The Body in the Trunk When one considers that the primary purpose of a modern Source Control system is to allow branches and subsequent merges,... 25 April 2014 3 min read
Damon Armstrong SharePoint 2010 to 2013 Search Service Application Upgrade Issue–Action 15.0.80.0 Fails During the course of upgrading a search application database from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 we encountered an error in... 22 April 2014 2 min read
Alex Yates Looking for participants for deployment process feedback UPDATE April 22 2014 – Thanks to everyone who got in touch, we now have enough people participating in the... 16 April 2014 1 min read
Phil Factor Silos and Monoliths – Moving On to the Past The presenter positively glowed with enthusiasm as she showed us how easily the schemas collections of documents in MongoDB could... 11 April 2014 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Simple Talk Roundup April 11 Heartbleed is the big issue of the day, we hope that everyone has changed their passwords and updated their certificates.... 11 April 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For a DBA – Attire So, clearly there were a few unrealistic parts of this blog. First, I don’t own a tuxedo. I wore one... 01 April 2014 5 min read
Tony Davis D.R.Y. with SQL Scripts Developers strive to write well-tested, reusable code with well-defined interfaces so that when they need to update the functionality, they... 28 March 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson Speaking this weekend at SQL Saturday 277 – Richmond One of my favorite locations to speak or attend is when Richmond has a SQL Saturday. (though if you... 19 March 2014 2 min read
Phil Factor Including timings, I/O and XML Execution plans in your SQL Test rigs Sometimes, when developing SQL code, you need to run an automated test and benchmark over and over again. In this... 14 March 2014 5 min read
Tony Davis Build, Buy or Rent? In the pioneering years of the PC industry, people mainly created for themselves whatever tools they needed, because there wasn’t... 14 March 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For a DBA – Dreams “When I was younger, I dreamt of being an astronaut…” “When I was younger, I dreamt of being a doctor... 11 March 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson How In-Memory Database Objects Affect Database Design: Getting Started Weird, somehow I lost text in the middle of this post after it was posted… I created it a few days back... 10 March 2014 2 min read
Louis Davidson Abstract Submission Day for Speaking 2014… Today is my least favorite part of the whole speaking thing. It is the day that I put myself out there... 02 March 2014 4 min read
Phil Factor Sundown on Markdown? Markdown is a way of using plain text to create markup, usually, but not exclusively, HTML. It is based on... 28 February 2014 4 min read
Louis Davidson Holy Cow, It has been a while Well, it has been over a year since my last insanely optimistic blog about the next year, but this... 27 February 2014 5 min read
Tony Davis DevOps Dilemma The term ‘DevOps’ has been widely misunderstood because the different teams within any really substantial development project understand the work... 14 February 2014 3 min read
