T-SQL Tuesday #182: Personal Integrity

It’s time for the first T-SQL Tuesday blog of 2025, with an invite from the first non-founder to host a party, Rob Farley. I reached out to Rob and...

Grinding Away: Mary Spender

A few years ago I stumbled on this video and loved it. That led me to Mary’s page and this cover of John Mayer’s Stop This Train: Since then...

Simple(r) Coffee

Choice is good, but too much choice can cause problems in both coffee shops and software teams, as Steve notes today.

The AG Secondary Logs

A New Word: Querinous

querinous – adj. longing for a sense of certainty in a relationship; wishing there were some way to know ahead of time whether this is the person you’re going...

Capturing Ideas for Blogs

As we close out the year, I decided to drop this post here and maybe inspire a few of you to write in 2025. This post looks at some...

SQL in an Azure VM Backup

The Lesser Used Functions

There have been a number of changes to the T-SQL language that are very specialized. Steve asks if you use any in your code?

Adding the Right Value

Are you doing the things at work that your boss cares about or the things you care about? Steve has a few thoughts on this.

Hash Joins IV