July 2024’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Dr. SQL himself, Louis Davidson. The topic is “What Advice Do You Wish Current You Could Go Back and Give Past You as You Were Starting Your First Data Platform Job?” I learn from my mistakes and I’ve learned plenty since my first data platform job! Defining “my …
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T-SQL Tuesday #175 Roundup
It’s time to celebrate and confess. I was honored to host the June 2024 edition of T-SQL Tuesday – #175! That’s the celebration. Confession: I had GoDaddy add a firewall back in February and it worked well. Too well, in fact! A friend reached out to let me know comments on the blog post – …
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T-SQL Tuesday #175: Old Tech, New Tech, Bold Tech, Blue Tech
Update: Check out the T-SQL Tuesday #175 Roundup! Microsoft Build 2024 was just last month (at the time of this writing) and the sheer number of announcements is almost overwhelming! You can read about the announcements from the Build Book of News and view selected sessions online. I am honored to host this month’s T-SQL …
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T-SQL Tuesday #156 – On Production Code
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Tom Zika. Tom’s topic is a good one: “Which quality makes code production grade?” I can hear data minds thinking, “It depends.” I prefer all code to be idempotent, a $3 word that means whenever the code is executed, the post-execution state is predictable (even if the initial …
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T-SQL Tuesday #138 – Managing Technology Changes – Wrap-Up
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday attracted some great responses! Thank you to everyone who participated! Reitse Eskens checked in with T-SQL Tuesday #138 – Keeping up with change. For whatever reason, his pingback did not make it to my blog. I apologize for the oversight, Reitse. Thank you for reaching out so I could get this corrected. …
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T-SQL Tuesday 138: Managing Technology Changes
I’m honored to host T-SQL Tuesday for May 2021. One point I make (repeatedly) in my latest book – titled Building Custom Tasks for SQL Server Integration Services – is “software changes.” In fact, software changed on me between the completion of editing and the release of the book! I wrote about the changes in a …
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T-SQL Tuesday #112 – The Cookie Jar
This month, Shane O’Neill hosts T-SQL Tuesday. His topic is titled Dipping into the Cookie Jar and is inspired by David Goggins‘ book titled Can’t Hurt Me. Coincidence: I am currently listening to the Can’t Hurt Me audio book. I made several recent mini-road-trips to Richmond to visit my Dad (more later) – a 75-mile …
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T-SQL Tuesday #111 Roundup
Thank You! First, we owe a debt of gratitude to my friend Adam Machanic (blog | @adammachanic | Data Education) for starting T-SQL Tuesday in the first place. Thank you, Adam! Next, we owe a huge shout-out to Steve Jones (blog | @way0utwest | SQL Server Central) for carrying the torch by maintaining tsqltuesday.com. Finally, thank you …
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T-SQL Tuesday #111 – What is Your “Why?”
“Why do you do what you do?” This month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic by Andy Leonard.
T-SQL Tuesday: When Good Projects Go Bad
Thanks to Jeff Mlakar for hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, a monthly collection of blog posts by data bloggers who work and live in the Microsoft SQL Server space. This month’s topic is about projects that have gone wrong. “Why Do Good Projects Go Bad, Andy?” Deltas. That’s all. Deltas. Allow me to explain. In …
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