Speaking Engagements 2025

It’s been a minute since I’ve gotten out to speak at events, but the second half of 2025 is going to be packed.

T-SQL Tuesday #186 Roundup - Managing Agent Jobs

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday!

Here’s a roundup of the posts.

T-SQL Tuesday #186 - Agent Job History Visualization

I’m hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and our topic is Managing SQL Agent Jobs. In this post, we’ll be taking a look at a very handy combination of dbatools...

Testing for End of Month in PowerShell

This is one of those blog posts you write so that 2 years later, you can look it up to remind yourself how to do something.
I found myself needing...

T-SQL Tuesday #186 Invitation - Managing Agent Jobs

This month, I am hosting T-SQL Tuesday for the very first time. T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party originally created by Adam Machanic in 2009 and currently curated...

T-SQL Tuesday 185 - Produce a Video!

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Erik Darling
(blog) asks us to produce a video

You can talk about whatever...

On the Internet, the Walls Have Ears

I received a sobering reminder this week of a lesson we all have learned or should have learned long ago. Something I said online came back around months later...

T-SQL Tuesday 184 - Mentorship

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Deborah Melkin
(blog) asks us to talk about our relationship with mentoring and...

The Mysterious Empty Table

It seems like no matter how long you work with a system beyond a trivial size, you’ll find something new every so often. A little while ago, I found...

Posting to Bluesky via PowerShell on macOS

The week of PASS Data Community Summit 2024 (November 4-8), Bluesky seemed to reach critical mass with the data community as well as the tech community writ large. Over...