Now that your CFS has been setup it’s time to get the word out first. There are many ways to this. I start with using the Cfs secret page on the Dashboard an email, DM on Twitter, or whatever communication method you have and email the link and invite people
Recently PASS Data Community Summit sessions were selected and the wounds were opened on Twitter around speaker diversity in the community. I heard from several people via my DMs about this matter as the Data Community Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Virtual Group’s Co-Leader and few just because I’m their friend.
Having recently taken a new job and introducing a number of new tools to my new coworker I thought I’d share how I setup my jump box to and keep it updated so others can benefit, and I can find it later (I did put this in our internal Confluence
Over the last four years, ok it seems longer than that, I’ve started four jobs. A couple just weren’t good fits. One I was at for three years. I currently just finished my first 30 days at my fourth one. Having done the first 30 days several times over the
It’s that time of the month again, the blog party, woohoo! This time Mala Mahadevan (b | t) has invited us to blog about our T-SQL coding standards. I think standards are pretty important but really hard to enforce. Sometimes you start with a company, and they have standards that
I had a problem at work recently where a record was getting updated, and no one knew where or what was updating the record. Our team discussed the best way to try to figure out what was happening. The situation was if a record would be updated to active and
SQL Server can run in any Virtual Machine that has the appropriate operating system (yes, I said that because I have some hope, that we will one day learn Linux and run on that OS but until that day, we are mostly running on the Windows Server). There are several
I jumped on the bandwagon early so to speak to use the user group feature of Sessionize and since then I’ve walked at least five user groups through setting up their pages. I filled up what is left in 22 slots in under three weeks using Sessionize. So, I thought
It’s that time of the month again, the blog party, woohoo! This time Kenneth Fisher (b | t) has invited us to blog about our first tech job. Oh boy, oh boy, has anybody heard any of my horrible job stories. Well, they started early and with my very first
Recently I spent months of my lift working on STIG and CIS compliance at my job and one of those tasks was setting up SQL Audit for STIG. Now, that might seem like a trivial task after all don’t you just have to create an audit and audit specification and