A New Word: La Guadière

la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you wouldn’t expect, which is often only detectable by sloshing them back and forth in your...

PASS Europe comes to Frankfurt

PASS Europe comes to Frankfurt, Germany on June 10-11, 2026.

Running SQLCMD I

The Data Model Matters

Is a data model important in modern software? Steve thinks it is and gives a few reasons why we might want to spend a little time on ensuring we have good models as we build software.

Over or Under Provisioned

How do you decide how many resources you need in the cloud world?

Secure Cached Plans

UNION vs UNIONALL: #SQLNewBlogger

While writing another post I realized my UNION query didn’t work as one might initiall expect, so I decided a short post was worth writing. This is based on...

QUOTENAME Behavior

Using Containers to Avoid Installing SQL Server

I got a new laptop recently and instead of installing SQL Server, I decided to try and use containers to see how well this works. This article looks at how I got this working relatively quickly. The short list of things I did is: Install Docker Desktop Create a location for data/logs/etc. Create a docker-compose […]

Fixing Impostor Syndrome

Lessons on impostor syndrome from a marketer apply to technologists as well.