This month’s invitation from Mike asks us to write a couple of notes – one to our past self, and one from our future self – focused on what we were concerned about, and what we should be concerned about. I love it, and it’s been itching away at me all week. So onto the messages. First from 2025 back to 2020 Andy […]
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 […]
This month, Josephine has asked how we achieve good enough without burning out in the pursuit of perfect. When designing data solutions, aiming for perfection can lead to endless iterations, moving targets, delays, and – as Josephine points out – burnout. A quote which encapsulates the essence of this for me: Perfection is the enemy of progress Winston Churchill If […]
For this week’s short post I’ve been inspired by Reddit. There’s something a little sus with this snippet of SQL: The result? ඞ A very simplistic way to produce an illustration. Not quite as complex as other ways to create imagery with SQL Server…
I’m currently out of the office, not quite as pictured unfortunately. I’ve had quite a bit recently – for better or worse. But that’s not why we’re here. I do have a pet peeve though, and I’m sure we’ve all seen it before: Then you take a look at their profile, and it’s just as […]
This month’s invitation from Louis looks for One piece of advice you wish your past self had. T-SQL Tuesday #149 had a similar topic where we gave advice to our younger selves and I made a few points. With a little more experience, I wanted to distill a couple of those: Sharing (knowledge)is caring (for yourself) Within a business, sharing […]
Tickets. Each one helps make the solutions we support more feature complete, bigger, faster, and fixed-er. This month’s invitation from Brent asks us to describe one of the last tickets which was closed to give an insight into our day to day. As an introduction: this is a response from a Development DBA who is relatively new into a […]
Looking back at the year that has been and the year ahead
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 […]
Well I’m a little late to the party this month, I got my weeks mixed and was only reading about this month’s T-SQL Tuesday as the community was posting their responses. So here we go, finally. This month’s ask from Josephine was to consider our understanding or expectations from data job roles. When we see […]
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