VS Live Slides and Code

Thanks to everyone that came to my talk at VS Live today. I’ve uploaded the slides to the blog. Here are the two decks: Using CI To Prevent Database...

Becoming a Better DBA

Steve has some advice on how to be a better DBA, or really better at whatever career you choose.

Daily Coping 15 Jun 2022

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

The Long Hash

T-SQL Tuesday #151 Coding Standards

This month the T-SQL Tuesday blog party is hosted by my good friend, Mala. This is her fourth time hosting and she has a good topic this time. While...

Using a Regular Expression to Detect a Number–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Here are some hints to get started. I...

Daily Coping 14 Jun 2022

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Daily Coping 13 Jun 2022

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Flawed Data Integration

These days we often have multiple applications that need to exchange data in use by customers. Steve shares a few thoughts on his recent experiences.

Getting the OS Version