New Database Job – The 90 Day Plan
In my first post, I reference that by the end of your first 30 days you should have a 90-day plan of things to tackle at your job and...
2022-07-25 (first published: 2022-07-12)
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New Database Job – Understand What You Have
In my previous post, I expounded on my first 30 days I had at four jobs in the last four years. and how to setup your jobs box. I...
2022-07-05
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Using Sessionize for Your User Group – Part 2
Now that your CFS has been setup it’s time to get the word out first. There are many ways to this. I start with using the Cfs secret page...
2022-07-01
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Speaker diversity
Recently PASS Data Community Summit sessions were selected and the wounds were opened on Twitter around speaker diversity in the community. I heard from several people via my DMs...
2022-07-15 (first published: 2022-06-30)
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Tools I Use on My Jump Box
Having recently taken a new job and introducing a number of new tools to my new coworker I thought I’d share how I setup my jump box to and...
2022-06-28
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The First 30 Days at a New Database Job
Over the last four years, ok it seems longer than that, I’ve started four jobs. A couple just weren’t good fits. One I was at for three years. I...
2022-07-11 (first published: 2022-06-27)
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T-SQL Tuesday 151: T-SQL Coding Standards
It’s that time of the month again, the blog party, woohoo! This time Mala Mahadevan (b | t) has invited us to blog about our T-SQL coding standards. I...
2022-06-14
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Who is Updating That Table? – SQL Audit
I had a problem at work recently where a record was getting updated, and no one knew where or what was updating the record. Our team discussed the best...
2022-06-14
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Why You Should Run Your SQL Server Virtual Machines in Azure
SQL Server can run in any Virtual Machine that has the appropriate operating system (yes, I said that because I have some hope, that we will one day learn...
2022-06-20 (first published: 2022-06-03)
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Setting Up Sessionize for Your User Group – Part 1 – Create an Event
I jumped on the bandwagon early so to speak to use the user group feature of Sessionize and since then I’ve walked at least five user groups through setting...
2022-05-31
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Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
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