Measuring My Career

I’m going to do a shorter editorial on this, but really I think this deserves more treatment here.
I saw Brent...

The April Blogger Challenge

I’d encourage you to take Ed Leighton-Dick’s challenge to blog in April. Read his post, start writing, and put your...

Efficiency

This Friday Steve Jones asks about how you are tackling your career growth as you get older. Are you getting more efficient?

Secure Checks

Are There That Many GUIDs?

Steve Jones talks about a recent survey that showed more people use GUIDs as primary keys than identity values.

The Basic TRY..CATCH

Have you written a TRY..CATCH statement in T-SQL? I hadn’t done it for most of my career, since the construct...

Speaking at SQL Saturday #389 – Huntington Beach

I’ll be traveling to CA next month for SQL Saturday #389 – Huntington Beach as well as a Red Gate DLM...

SQL Cop and SQLServerCentral

Steve Jones runs the SQL Cop tests against the SQLServerCentral database and looks at the results.

Career Ratings

I wrote the other day about measuring your career, and I gave some general advice, but I wanted to give...

Microsoft and R

R is an interesting language and one that might become more important to data professionals in the future. Microsoft is also making an investment here.