A New Word: Ozurie

Ozurie – feeling torn between the life you want and the life you have. I think many people feel ozurie often. I certainly had a lot of this in...

Creative Development

An interesting approach to schema changes is a creative solution to Steve. He asks if you have other creative solutions you've seen.

Volunteering at Work: Teaching Others

I give a few talks on career topics, and one of these is Branding Yourself for a Dream Job. In the talk, I sometimes tell a story in the...

A Paste Policy

Steve saw a policy on code usage in software development and wondered how many companies have this.

Finding Identity Columns

Abolish Disjointed Time

The European Parliment is considering getting rid of daylight savings time.

Refreshing a View

A New Word: Exulansis

exulansis – n. the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it – whether through envy or pity or...

HIPPO vs. Data

Are you really data driven or HIPPO driven? Steve has a few thoughts today.

Using Power BI to Analyze My Travels

As a data professional, I have some fun with data in my life. I like numbers, and I like tracking things. I've written posts about my year in numbers, and recently noted the states I've visited. Like many of you, I've sometimes used this data to practice a skill, maybe learn to ETL or query […]