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
I’ve worked for SaaS companies for the last 6 years or so. So our queries are largely the same across our system and by default Query Store is per database. So it would be handy to have a central repository to help you determine which queries across your whole server
This month for T-SQL Tuesday we are asked to describe our “Why”. I have a couple of Whys not related to my day job, but we will start with my day job. Since I was six years old, I wanted to be a computer programmer because I thought video games
Rough Year, But 50 Kids, Can’t Beat That! Last year was a pretty rough year personally. I totaled two cars, not my fault big trucks like to make turns into little cars, a crisis with a friend, and a mental health crisis still ongoing from June. But I’ve stuck out
In the past 5 months I have started two different jobs, so that leaves it up in the air as to which job or jobs (plus a previous job did some of these) are practicing these bad habits but these are the top 10 things that drive DBAs crazy when
Wow! The last five years of my career have been amazing. I went from attending a SQLSaturday a couple of times a year to being a coauthor of a book. Given all the obstacles I’ve had to overcome in life this truly is an amazing accomplishment. It’s on the list
Sorry readers, I was having some many adventures there was no June edition. In May, I had SQLSaturday Dallas where I got to drive a pickup truck because what else would you drive in Texas. I presented my newest and most popular related series of blog posts Collecting Performance Metrics the