This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Deborah Melkin(b|t), and she has an interesting topic. She wants us to write a rant on a scenario we encountered at a client that has the common ‘it depends’ stance go right out of the window..or in other words, something that is so bad that there is no… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday #152 – The crazy login client
I am glad to be contributing to the 150th blog party started by Adam Machanic and has helped so many get our blogs going. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by a dear friend Ken Fisher – Ken wants us to write on our first technical job. The year was 1987. I was an engineering… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday 150: My first technical job
This months’ T-SQL Tuesday blog party is hosted by Rie Merrit (t|b) as part of Azure Community Group lead. Her call is to pick one or two things that work for running a user group and blog on it. I am co lead at two user groups – the Triangle SQL Server User Group and… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday 148: Finding and keeping a consistent audience, and what works
I am trying to get started on blogging again this year…T-SQL Tuesday came in handy with a great topic. This month’s host is Andy Yun(t |b). Andy’s challenge for us is to write about some notion ‘something you’ve learned, that subsequently changed your opinion/viewpoint/etc. on something. ‘ There are many things on which I’ve changed my… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday 146: Where should business logic reside?
I decided to resume tech blogging after a long break and this tsql-tuesday came in handy. This month’s blog part is hosted by John McCormack (B|T). He would like us to blog about handy scripts. I use Query Store a lot where I work – and I’d like to share queries I use on Query… Continue reading TSQL-Tuesday 143: Short Code Examples
I got several responses for the last T-SQL Tuesday of the year that am honored to host. My topic was to blog on whatever you considered to be a gift that you received during the year. Below is the summary. Todd Klienhans talks of using his hobby – virtual reality, to make a project that… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday 121 – Gifts received – Summary
I am hosting 2019’s last T-SQL Tuesday of the year. I chose to ask people to write on gifts they had received – by way of community, relationships, or even tech features. A rather loose definition , as the one and only Aaron Bertrand calls it 🙂 I have a lot to be thankful for… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday #121 Gifts received
It is December again. 2019 has gone by in a flash. I have the honor of hosting the last TSQL Tuesday blog party of the year. This monthly blog party started by SQL Guru Adam Machanic since 2009 has completed 121 months this year. I am the lucky host of event #121. If you are… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is organized by Mohammed Darab(t|b). Mohammed has a really interesting topic – things you would say to yourself if you were 20. I am well past 20, and this is something I think about often. There are many,many things I wish I’d known earlier, that would have significantly changed my life… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday #115 – Dear 20 Year Old Self
The last T-SQL Tuesday of this year is hosted by Jason Brimhall – one of my long-time friends in the SQL community. Jason’s topic is ‘To influence and to be influenced’ – call out times when something you did influenced someone , and you were in turn influenced by something that person said or did.… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday 109: To influence and to be influenced
Curious..about data 