I recently graduated with a Master’s in Strategic Communication from the University of Delaware. Attending the graduation ceremony with my sister made it a truly memorable experience. Here’s a...
2024-06-17 (first published: 2024-05-28)
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My blog has been quiet lately. I recently wrapped up a master’s program (more details on that soon, once the formal graduation is behind me) and have been immersed...
2024-05-31 (first published: 2024-05-14)
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My good friend Gina Menorek shared this article from NY Post on the overwhelming exhaustion among tech workers. The article talks of ‘quiet quitting’ – not quitting our jobs...
2024-01-08 (first published: 2023-12-31)
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Hey there, I’m Mala. I’ve been in the data game for a good 25 years, first as a DBA and then as a Data Engineer, mainly working with Microsoft...
2023-09-04
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I’ve been thinking about starting a newsletter for a while now. I want to focus on summaries and what stood out for me from among the many cool talks...
2023-08-30 (first published: 2023-08-14)
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My dear friend Josephine Bush a.k.a HelloSQLKitty hosts this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. Josephine’s call to us is to share our understanding of the multitude of job titles available out...
2023-08-25 (first published: 2023-08-08)
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We have a guest editorial today from Mala Mahadevan on the changing data community.
2023-07-03
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This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Gethyn Ellis(t). Gethyn’s Invite to us is to write about the best piece of career advice you’ve received. One of the most...
2023-06-20
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This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Tomaz Kastrun – his call is to write about how we’ve used ChatGPT, and what are ethical issues, if any, that we...
2023-05-22 (first published: 2023-05-09)
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We all need guidance as we make our way through our careers and our lives. Some people are blessed with the right folks who can offer that by way...
2023-03-24 (first published: 2023-03-17)
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By Steve Jones
Rodney Kidd took some great shots of the keynote and published an album here:...
By Brian Kelley
here is the compiled video of the Red Teaming course Microsoft put together.
Day 2 kicked off with Matt Garman’s keynote, and he opened with a quote...
Hi all, Has anyone encountered an issue whereby using a distributed availability group...
hi, i have seen in my server sometimes some SPIDs get stuck. so we...
Recently I was asked to investigate the update statistics process on a particular database....
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