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 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

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

This is November and T-SQL Tuesday time, I hope you are ready to read the summary – I am the host and it’s mine. I’d like to begin by saying thanks to you two – Adam Machanic and Steve Jones, to whom this is due. Thanks for keeping this blog party going, Thanks for letting… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday 108 – A poetic summary