Do What Hurts

When you struggle with a software task, the best advice is to do it more often and get better at the task, not avoid doing it.

Building Bad Software Faster

DevOps doesn't mean just building software faster. Quality matters as well.

Daily Coping 9 Nov 2020

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. Today's tip is to plan a new activity or idea you want to try out this week. At least a […]

Daily Coping 9 Nov 2020

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Storing the Timezone

Strange T-SQL Operator Syntax

I can’t remember where I saw this, but it made an interesting Question of the Day: select * from Sales where Profit !< 10000; I had never seen anything...

What’s Your Vision for PASS?

The PASS election slate was released for 2020. The candidates and their statements are:: Hamish Watson (@thehybriddba) Joey D’Antoni (@jdanton) – Community Matters–Why I’m Running for the PASS Board...

Azure DevOps–Using Variable Groups

I was in a webinar recently and saw a note about variable groups. That looked interesting, as I’ve started to find that I may have lots of variables in...

Daily Coping 6 Nov 2020

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Going On-Prem?

Is the decision for a new database starting to switch from the default of on-premise to in the cloud? Steve Jones has a few thoughts on when we'll get there.