A Well Deserved Break

Steve leaves on sabbatical after today.

Advice I Like: Focus on what’s important

Don’t let someone else’s urgency becomes your emergency. In fact, don’t be governed by the urgent of any sort. Focus on the important. The urgent is a tyrant. –...

Multiple Defaults

The Book of Redgate: Motivation

Another of our values is this: Motivation isn’t about carrots and sticks. Constant oversight and the threat of punishment are incompatible with great, fulfilling work. We believe in creating...

Using a GenAI to Help Brent

Brent had a query exercise recently about train stations moving in some order and having overrides to this order in emergencies. I suppose he’s been traveling a lot lately...

Getting the Updated Column List

The Technical Debt Anchor

Technical debt is something all of us deal with in our systems, and today Steve has a few thoughts on the impact of debt on database sysstems.

The Data Warehousing Choice

What is your choice for data warehousing? Is it a cloud platform? Which one is attractive to you?

Using Heaps

SQL Bits 2025 Wrap

SQL Bits 2025 was amazing, as always. It’s been my favorite conference to attend, with lots of friends, a family atmosphere, and some amazing speakers from whom I learn...