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
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog is brought to us by Mohammd Dorab (b | t) and this month topic is about what you would tell your 20-year-old self now that you are further along in your career. I have five pieces of advice I would give myself to the 20-year-old
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog is brought to us by Todd Kleinhans (b | t) and this month topic is about what you use databases in your personal life. As database professionals, it shouldn’t really surprise anybody that we do this, after all, we love data. I can think of
Mentorship is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor as defined by Webster’s dictionary. I believe it involved a little more than that. It also involves investing time in the mentee and personally being interested in rather they succeed in their aspirations. As a member and participate in
I often get emails asking the same time of questions about the setup of Telegraf for SQL Server and Windows while people are trying to set it up. Hopefully, this blog post will help answer most people’s questions and help them troubleshoot the setup. First, if you have a problem