Function Defaults

My 2024 in Data: Reading

This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back on the 30th for a minute), so I decided to do some analysis of my...

My 2024 in Data: Speaking

This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back on the 30th for a minute), so I decided to do some analysis of my...

Learning to Grind

Learning to grind away is how you drive your career forward.

Monday Monitor Tips: Am I Patched?

One of the things that I think is neat is that Redgate Monitor helps you track patching on your systems. This is something that has been challenging in every...

My 2024 in Data: Travels

This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back on the 30th for a minute), so I decided to do some analysis of my...

The Random Rows

A New Word: Dolonia

dolonia – n. a state of unease prompted by people who seem to like you too much, which makes you wonder if they must have you confused with someone...

FIRST_VALUE vs. Min: #SQLNewBlogger

I had mentioned some new T-SQL functions for SQL Server 2022 and a commenter asked about the difference between Min() and First_value. This post looks at a few cases....

Getting Started with the Data API Builder

Earlier this year I had a PM at Microsoft reach out and ask me what I thought about the Data API Builder. I hadn't looked at it, so I made a note to check it out. I hadn't done that by the time SQL Saturday Denver 2024 occurred, where I saw Jerry Nixon from Microsoft […]