My current focus is directing and managing strategic and operational aspects of Pragmatic Works, a data services organization focused on democratizing analytics and data related technologies. I built the organization from the ground up (with my co-founders) to include industry leading processes, attract and retain top industry resources and execute powerhouse partnerships with firms like Microsoft and HP to deliver the highest quality solutions in the most innovative ways.

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More fun with Git: git restore

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The setup My day job involves babysitting a lot of Git repositories hosted on...

When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages

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Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be.  Two...

Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4

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In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...

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Catalog max connection pool size: 100

By Pete Bishop

Seeing this message repeated every 10 seconds in the RSHostingService_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss.log file. Can anyone advise:...

CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format

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I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...

what are the downsides of TDE not running vs running?

By stan

hi for the 2 years i've been here I believe we've had "encryption" turned...

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Question of the Day

Putting the Player with the Number

In SQL Server 2025, what does this return? 

DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix',
@num VARCHAR = '10'

SELECT @player || @num

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