It’s All Fundamentals

I’m learning how to speak German. Interestingly enough, you don’t start off reading dissertations. Instead, you begin by learning the...

Left or Right?

No, this is not about politics. It’s about your WHERE clause… and your JOIN criteria… and your HAVING clause. It’s about a...

Speaker of the Month: September 2014

This month I’m very grateful because I was given the opportunity to present at DevLink in Chattanooga. I got to...

Silliness for an Important Cause

I don’t mind saying that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, scares me. A degenerative disease...

The Red Gate Way…

As companies go, Red Gate is a little different. That is readily apparent in our tools and the philosophy behind...

Getting the Word Out

A discussion that I’ve frequently had with organizers of SQL Saturday events, our own people here at Red Gate, authors,...

A Full Day of Query Tuning

I’m excited to able to say that I’ve been given the opportunity to put on a full day workshop at...

Say Thank You

I was approached by a man at SQL Bits who only wanted to thank me for blogging. He said, “I...

Speaker of the Month: August 2014

Speaker of the Month is now officially one year old.
I went back and reread my first post. The goals were...

Challenge Accepted

There seemed to be some question whether my comfort level with my own masculinity would prevent me from wearing these:

Oh...