Simple Talk Editor in Conferences Sponsoring PGDay Chicago this week On Friday, April 25, Simple Talk is excited to be a sponsor of PGDay Chicago 2025. This will be the... 22 April 2025 1 min read
Louis Davidson in Conferences SQL Saturday Richmond Roundup On the weekend of April 5, 2025, I attended (and Redgate sponsored) SQL Saturday Richmond. Having lived for 5 years... 19 April 2025 5 min read
Lukas Vileikis in Blogs Announcing Database Frontiers: a Database Conference You Haven’t Yet Heard About Database Frontiers is a new database conference hitting the spotlight come October 15th, 2025. Here’s everything you need to know.… 15 April 2025 3 min read
Louis Davidson in Conferences Sponsoring SQL Saturday Richmond This Week On April 5, 2025, Simple Talk will be a sponsor at SQL Saturday #1106 in Richmond Virginia. Having worked for... 31 March 2025 2 min read
Louis Davidson in Blogs Simple Talk on the Road In March The holidays truly are over, and it is time to hit the road again here at Simple Talk. In March... 06 March 2025 3 min read
Lukas Vileikis in Blogs I Wrote a Book on How You Broke Your Database – Here’s Why You Should Read It This blog introduces the book "Hacking MySQL: Breaking, Optimizing, and Securing MySQL for Your Use Case" by Lukas Vileikis.… 10 January 2025 7 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials Love Your Conference Sponsors You probably already realize this, but I work for a company that sponsors conferences. As the editor of Simple Talk,... 04 December 2024 4 min read
Dennes Torres in Conferences Breaking Down Ignite: A Pragmatic Look at the Conference’s Best Innovations The amount of news brought by Ignite is huge. I was not expecting to find so many new features, resources,... 21 November 2024 10 min read
Simple Talk Editor in Conferences PASS Keynote – Day 3 – Community Keynote Intro Ben Weissman, who is not going to retire after this, comes out to introduce the keynote and tell everyone... 08 November 2024 9 min read
Simple Talk Editor in Conferences PASS Keynote – Day 2 – Redgate Time to start! Annabel Bradford (Head of Events at Redgate) comes out on stage. Intro Annabel takes the stage... 07 November 2024 9 min read
Simple Talk Editor PASS Keynote – Day 1 – Microsoft In this blog we will be covering all the news and announcements from the 2024 PASS Data Summit Keynote as... 06 November 2024 10 min read
Louis Davidson in Conferences Keeping up with the 2024 PASS Summit In this post, I want to share a few places where you can keep up with what is going on... 02 November 2024 3 min read
Saskia Parks in Learning Resources Future-Proofing Test Data Management: Solutions for DBAs and Developers A PASS session intro with Hamish Watson and Saskia Parks PASS Data Community Summit is coming around quickly, and I... 01 October 2024 5 min read
Lucy Boyes in Learning Resources Managing sensory overload while attending a conference Attending a conference can be a great move for your career, with all the opportunities for learning and networking that... 26 September 2024 7 min read
Robert Sheldon Simple Talk Storage 101 by Robert Sheldon The only way to derive meaning from the massive amounts of data collected today is to develop innovative high-performing, high-capacity... 10 May 2021 2 min read
Greg Larsen Transact-SQL: The Building Blocks to SQL Server Programming by Gregory A. Larsen Transact SQL (TSQL) is the languaged used to query and update data stored in a SQL Server. This book, written... 20 July 2020 2 min read
Books Grant Fritchey in Books SQL Server Execution Plans, Third Edition, by Grant Fritchey Every Database Administrator, developer, report writer, and anyone else who writes T-SQL to access SQL Server data, must understand how... 04 October 2018 2 min read
Kalen Delaney SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP In this book Kalen Delaney introduces and explains how the 2016 In-Memory OLTP engine works. The Hekaton internals knowledge offered... 07 December 2017 2 min read
Robert Sheldon Stairway to SQL Server XML XML has been part of the SQL Standard since 2003, and is essential for any DBA because so many of... 03 April 2017 1 min read
Claire Brooking Book Review: The Phoenix Project After hearing from Grant Fritchey that "Anyone who wants to know what DevOps really means should read this" Claire Brooking... 15 October 2014 11 min read
