A New Word: Exulansis

exulansis – n. the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it – whether through envy or pity or...

HIPPO vs. Data

Are you really data driven or HIPPO driven? Steve has a few thoughts today.

Using Power BI to Analyze My Travels

As a data professional, I have some fun with data in my life. I like numbers, and I like tracking things. I've written posts about my year in numbers, and recently noted the states I've visited. Like many of you, I've sometimes used this data to practice a skill, maybe learn to ETL or query […]

Roles Across Schemas

The Value of Doing Something

Steve recommends tackling some project to help you continue to grow.

Bare Metal

Today Steve talks about bare metal servers and virtual machines. He wonders if any of you still run bare metal.

Resuming Indexes on Old Databases

T-SQL Tuesday #163 – The Best Career Advice

We’re a little delayed this month. Both the host and I forgot about this. So far in June, I’ve been in Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Denver, and Cambridge for...

Defending the RDBMS

An attack and defense of using relational data stores.

The Four Different Types of Flyway Files

This is documented, somewhat, but I wanted to put this down for myself, as the I don’t love the docs and they are hard to sort through. Flyway is...