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T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are Blogs Still Relevant?

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday from Jeff asks bloggers to blog about the relevance of blogging in 2026. But there’s an AIlephant in the room here. Jeff alludes to blogging from two perspectives in his invitation: The reader, who consumes the content for their benefit – as Jeff did, making “a massive difference for [his] career […]

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A Two-Year Review (2024-2025)

January is a great time of year to raise your head and take a look around. Looking back at what has been, where we’re going, and the technical and mental debt which needs a clear out. I skipped this Year in Review last year due to other commitments, so there’s a little more ground to […]

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2023 Year in Review

Looking back at the year that has been and the year ahead

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T-SQL Tuesday #169 – Giving Thanks

This month’s invitation from Kay asks us to look back through the year and consider those who we are thankful for. Whilst I should be thanking those close to me for their ongoing support through a lot this year – the fact of it is that they aren’t the type of folks to be reading a blog about SQL […]

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Markdown Cheat Sheet

If you haven’t seen or used Markdown before, it’s a simple way to annotate plain text in a way which indicates formatting by using specific characters. This means that you can format your text as you’re typing rather than scrolling through countless options in a visual editor such as Word. Personally I find markdown so […]

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2022 Year in Review

Happy new year folks! I hope everyone enjoyed the festive period and was able to get some sort of a break to spend time with those closest to you. This past year has been a busy one personally and quite a journey with this blog too. With that in mind I thought it was worth […]