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T-SQL Tuesday #190 – Mastering Skills

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation from Todd asks us to consider mastery of skills. Learning is a continual cycle, a part of our everyday – be it on a personal or professional journey. Mastering is more than simply learning though. Todd hits on key terms in his invitation – commitment, planning, deliberate practice, consistency. Ticking those boxes […]

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T-SQL Tuesday #189 – Me, Myself, and AI

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Taiob and he’s posed a great point to consider: How is AI changing our careers? Oh boy, this could be a divisive topic with plenty of opinions – I’m seeing submissions roll in as I’m finalising this and I’m very much looking forward to the community’s views on the topic. […]

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Grab Yourself Some Free Azure SQL Offerings

Its the time of year where things may winding down for the new year and we can get a bit of breathing room. With that free time you might want to try something new, let’s say some SQL Server in the cloud? It could be a good time to start brushing up on new skills, […]

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T-SQL Tuesday #170 – Learning the Hard Way

This month’s invitation from Reitse asks us to talk about learnings from abandoned or failed projects. This one will sit somewhere squarely between those two points. It was an opportunity to learn about scalability. Let’s set the scene. A point of sale system being rolled out across hundreds of physical locations. Transaction data collected each night to […]