Installing Old Versions of PowerShell Modules with Their Dependencies

I don’t recall where this came up (probably in SQLSlack), but I had a need to install an older version of dbatools to test something related to loading the...

Summer Speaking Summary 2025

In the blink of an eye, summer has passed. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for things to get back to “normal” after 10 weeks of events...

T-SQL Tuesday 188 - Growing the Younger Data Community and Speakers

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, John Sterrett
(blog) asks us:

What are you doing, or what can we do...

Speaking Engagements 2025

It’s been a minute since I’ve gotten out to speak at events, but the second half of 2025 is going to be packed.

T-SQL Tuesday #186 Roundup - Managing Agent Jobs

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday!

Here’s a roundup of the posts.

T-SQL Tuesday #186 - Agent Job History Visualization

I’m hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and our topic is Managing SQL Agent Jobs. In this post, we’ll be taking a look at a very handy combination of dbatools...

T-SQL Tuesday #186 Invitation - Managing Agent Jobs

This month, I am hosting T-SQL Tuesday for the very first time. T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party originally created by Adam Machanic in 2009 and currently curated...

Testing for End of Month in PowerShell

This is one of those blog posts you write so that 2 years later, you can look it up to remind yourself how to do something.
I found myself needing...

T-SQL Tuesday 185 - Produce a Video!

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Erik Darling
(blog) asks us to produce a video

You can talk about whatever...

On the Internet, the Walls Have Ears

I received a sobering reminder this week of a lesson we all have learned or should have learned long ago. Something I said online came back around months later...