T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future

I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been posting at the Straight Path Solutions site recently), but I did want to reply to...

Keeping MS Docs Up to Date

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Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information

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T-SQL Tuesday #193 - Notes to Self

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

Write two short notes to yourself. One to the...

T-SQL Tuesday #193 – Notes to my past self and from my future self

It has been a while since my last T-SQL Tuesday blog. When I saw Mike Walsh’s topic for T-SQL Tuesday #193, I was intrigued and inspired – “Notes to...

T-SQL Tuesday #193 – Notes to past and future me

The last T-SQL Tuesday of the year is hosted by my good friend Mike Walsh. Mike’s call for us is to end the year on a poignant note –...

A Note and a Message: T-SQL Tuesday #193

This month Mike Walsh hosts T-SQL Tuesday. It’s been quite some time since he hosted (back at #4), but he answered my call for hosts and I appreciate that....

More fun with Git: git restore

The setup My day job involves babysitting a lot of Git repositories hosted on GitHub. The vast majority of the commits, merges, and squashes I run on a daily...

When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages

Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be.  Two well established cloud services, Cloudflare and Azure Front Door, both had simultaneous outages that caused...

Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4

In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this last part, I'll talk about how I go about taking the exam.