Happy St. Patrick’s Day (are you wearing something green)! For March I asked everyone to blog something related to Query Store, here is a summary of in alphabetical order of the blog posts we received although Rob Farley gets credit for being first. Tracy Boggiano (b | t) – I
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blogging party is brought to you well by me and I wanted to talk more about Query Store. I did write a book on it but there if still more to know about that is not in the book. I am sure the rest of everyone’s
Ever since Microsoft introduced Query Store I’ve been working with it, back to the CTPs in 2016. I started presenting on it because it benefited my current company at the time. I heard there are low adoptions rates and from a couple people implementations problems or just not having time
Jess Pomfret is hosting month’s T-SQL Tuesday, and asked us to share our favorite life hacks – something that makes our day easier. I have a few,some people have told me are insane. We will start with the least insane. Why did Lenovo put the Function key where the Ctrl key
On December 7, I did a session on mental illness and mental health problems being more common in IT than you think. Before the event the PASS WIT Virtual Chapter tweeted out about the session and I already had people that weren’t going to be at the event wishing they
At the end of 2019, Mala (b|t) invites us to write about the gifts we’ve gotten during the year. I’ve been gifted with a lot of things this year personally and professionally. So to honor the 12 days of Christmas here are 12 gifts I have received. Through the wonder of
After nearly a year of work, starting with the proposal that I finished writing in a hospital last year the book is finished and off to be published and due to be available October 20th. It has been a long year trying to maintain my volunteer work and write a
This month’s topic is wide open to anything you could think of that had to do with SQL on Linux from something technical on how to implement it or something you needed to know to run it on Linux to why you may not have adopted it yet. We extended
Hey look who is hosting T-SQL Tuesday, it is me, and I’m late. Sorry I broke my demo machines for Linux and had to set up everything again so I change my topic and that is going to make it brief. One of my favorite things about SQL on Linux