This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and also has agreed to start taking over some of the T-SQL Tuesday management. Mike Walsh and StraightPath Solutions will steward this, but Jeff will likely do a lot of the day-to-day (or month-to-month).
In any case, I hope you support him and more of you participate, even if it’s a post on LinkedIn.
This month Jeff asks about blogs, which is kind of like a circular reference. Blogging about blogs. Reminds me of GNU.
In any case.
The Blogs I Read
Jeff asks is blogs are still relevant and I’d say yes. They contain information lost in the AI summaries, so I encourage you to read them.
I run SQL Server Central, and we syndicate blogs here (ping the webmaster if you want to join). I add some of those to the newsletter, and read most of them. I especially love seeing Brian Kelley’s posts.
The others I read, with a little why, are:
- Brent Ozar Pro blog – He always has interesting stuff in here, often things I didn’t think about.
- Ozar.me – makes me think about life. Brent’s personal blog
- Erik Darling – I learn about performance here. I don’t use a lot, but to me, this is good background to keep in mind as you look at other code, or think about patterns in development.
- SQL Authority – I see Pinal on X, and when I do, he sometimes a post catches my eye, so I’ll go look.
- SQL Server blog – I catch up on stuff here
- StraightPath Solutions – One of the few we don’t syndicate that still updates
For most of these, I don’t subscribe or read every day. Mostly I catch posts on social media, or while compiling the Database Weekly newsletter, but I find this content more helpful for me to be interested in tech and grow than AI stuff or many random posts.
Keep blogging, and keep reading blogs. It’s good exercise for your mind, and it’s a great way to improve your communication skills.