Deb Melkin (b | t) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and is letting us rant. Who doesn’t like to rant about databases and the famous “it depends”? She mentioned even doing a Ted Talk, we should find out more about this, she just linked to all the talks, I
In my first post, I reference that by the end of your first 30 days you should have a 90-day plan of things to tackle at your job and how to proceed with the company. I believe this is vital to establishing your career at the company. I have gone
In my previous post, I expounded on the first 30 days I had at four jobs in the last four years. and how to set up your jobs box. I commented and got quoted on the fact that if it’s documented I don’t support it. So, these are methods of
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