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

  This is my first opportunity hosting a T-SQL Tuesday and am super excited!! T-SQL Tuesday is the brainchild of well respected SQL Guru and author of ‘sp_whois active’ – Adam Machanic (b|t).  Adam rightly predicted that we all could benefit from ‘a recurring, revolving blog party’ with a new topic given each month – the party has… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday #97 – Setting learning goals for 2018

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Ewald Cress, and the topic is ‘Folks who have made a difference’. This is an opportunity – and right around thanksgiving – to give a shout-out to people who have made a difference in our careers and in the data community. To me this list is so long… Continue reading TSQL Tuesday #96 – Folks who have made a difference

This month’s TSQL Tuesday is organized by Kennie T Pontoppidan(t) – the topic is ‘Daily Database WTF‘ – or a horror story from the database world.  As someone who has worked databases for nearly two decades, there are several of these – I picked one of my favorites. During my early years as a DBA, I… Continue reading TSQL2sday – Daily database WTF