PASS Summit 2019 – spending the time

The session line up for PASS Summit 2019 was announced today...there are so many good sessions to go to..managing time and what we do with our limited time there...

Querying Temporal Tables

Temporal tables a.k.a Table Versioning was introduced in SQL Server 2016 and is an easy, convenient way to track changes to data. A good introduction to temporal tables can be found here. One of the key advantages of versioning tables is easy of querying – or getting a ‘single pane of glass’ look of how […]

Pathways to Progress

One of the most significant and hardest challenges we face as data professionals (or generally anyone in IT) is how to keep up with learning. Most of us are...

PASS turns 20

Its really hard to believe that its been 20 years since the start of the PASS organization – the volunteer run...

WIT Panel for Women’s History Month

I cannot write this without stating some history. I have been part of PASS community since 1999. That is 21...

T-SQL Tuesday 109: To influence and to be influenced

The last T-SQL Tuesday of this year is hosted by Jason Brimhall – one of my long-time friends in the SQL...

Epic Life Quest – looking back

This will be my last post for the year. In this am going to look back on goals I set...

T-SQL Tuesday 108 – Learning R

I am the proud host of TSQL Tuesday for the month of November 2018.
My call to post entries is here ....

Counting blessings – from Summit V2.0 and beyond

I have been a regular attendee at PASS Summit for 15 years now. This year (2018) marked my 15th year...

T-SQL Tuesday 108 – A poetic summary

This is November and T-SQL Tuesday time,

I hope you are ready to read the summary – I am the host and...