A New Word: Ghough

ghough – n. a hollow place in your psyche that can never be filled; a bottomless hunger for more food, more praise, more attention, more affection, more job, more...

A Staffing Disaster

An Azure datacenter had a failure after an incident, partially because they didn't have enough people. Steve notes that staffing is a challenge in many ways.

Backing Up a Restoring Database

Friday Flyway Tips: More Config Options

Working with various Flyway configuration options used to be a pain since they were either CLI parameters or in a text files. We’ve made editing these easier in Flyway...

Creating Two Keys

Running a Service

The way we view our jobs might change how we do them. Steve has some advice on how to think about the work you do.

Are You Worried About AI?

Many people are worried for their future career prospects with the growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in many situations. Steve doesn't think that AI is going to take over the world, but it might affect your future opportunities.

Future Data Driven 2023 is This Week

The Future Data Driven 2023 virtual conference is coming on Wednesday, September 27. Register today and save a note in your calendar. The event has  a great schedule (scroll...

Opening the SQL Prompt Command Palette

A few years ago SQL Prompt added a command palette to let you search the commands available. This is similar to the same concept in Visual Studio Code, ADS,...

Quickly Creating a tsqlt Test for a Query

One of the things that I feel is important to building better software is testing your code. It should be easy and simple to test code and determine if...