New Job -> Week 2 -> Creating a Checklist
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. Last week was the first week of the rest of my life....
2023-04-10 (first published: 2023-03-24)
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SQL Server 2022 Administration Inside Out
SQL Server 2022 Administration Inside Out is now available for pre-order from Microsoft Press. This book is far more than a quick update. We've rewritten and refreshed large portions of...
2023-03-25 (first published: 2023-03-24)
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WIT/DEI Mental Health and Wellness Day Challenge to Present
Back in December 2019, I started presenting my session on mental health with lots of fear as to how the community was going to take
The post WIT/DEI Mental Health...
2023-03-29 (first published: 2023-03-24)
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Daily Coping 24 Mar 2023–The Final Tip
Today’s coping tip is to discover the joy in the simple things in life. This is the last coping tip for now. It’s been 3 years, and I hope...
2023-03-24
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Experimenting with RedisGraph on Docker and Windows
I have been experimenting a bit with graph databases, trying to learn more about them. One of the platforms I wanted to experiment with was RedisGraph. This post looks...
2023-03-24 (first published: 2023-03-23)
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Resources for Adding Graph Structures to Your Database at VS Live
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk at VS Live Las Vegas 2023 on graph databases. I hope you enjoyed it, and if you have questions, please feel free...
2023-03-23
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Resources for Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments
I delivered my talk on Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments yesterday at VS Live Las Vegas 2023. It went fairly well, even though I ran some incorrect code somewhere. Apologies...
2023-03-24 (first published: 2023-03-23)
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Daily Coping 23 Mar 2023
Today’s coping tip is to focus your attention on the good things you take for granted. My life is great. I used to say perfect, but a few struggles...
2023-03-23
12 reads
SQL Bits 2023 Recap
I had an amazing time adventuring to Wales with other members of the data community last week! It was my first international conference, and I had heard so many...
2023-03-31 (first published: 2023-03-23)
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Converting Types in C#
I am not a great software developer. I’m OK, and I do know how to use Google and Stack Overflow well. Maybe my best skill is wording searches well?...
2023-04-07 (first published: 2023-03-22)
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