Merry Christmas 2019

A Quick Look at Travel

I was experimenting with visualizations the other day, and started playing with SandDance, a tool from Microsoft that you can use in Power BI or Azure Data Studio. I’ll...

Knocking off early

Double Check Your Math

Steve notes that math operations are places where many developers have made mistakes in the past. A little test code might help here.

Finding SQL Logins

Server Hardware or Coffee?

Today Steve Jones looks at the relative cost of hardware and how we sometimes cause ourselves issues by not spending enough.

The PowerShell String

Using Parameters in #SQLPrompt

I am a big fan of snippets in SQL Prompt, often using them in demos to quickly get code written. However, I’ve liked the idea of snippets and templates...

Finding Non Current Cumulative Updates

A short article to help you quickly find a CU that isn't the latest one.

Data Gravity

Data has its own gravity and an inhibit agility when it grows too large.