How to Speak to a Tech
Hi all! I’m on vacation this week, but I’ve cleverly scheduled this blog post so you won’t miss me too...
2011-06-14
628 reads
SQL Awesomesauce
Speaker Lessons!! Un-SQL Friday #004 Roundup
We had a cozy (read: small) UnSQL Friday this time around, and I’m good with that. Every entry we got...
2011-06-09
842 reads
Run, The Sky is Falling (#memeMonday)
This month’s Meme Monday is “dumb SQL questions”. Here’s the one that gets under my skin the most these days:
Let me...
2011-06-06
641 reads
Speakers Lessons Learned at SQLRally Code Sins
This is my contribution to UnSQL Friday #004: Speaker Lessons Learned.
I got my SQLRally session evaluation back last week. I’d...
2011-06-06
589 reads
Un-SQL Friday #004: Speaker Lessons Learned
I began writing a story about, shall we say, a less than positive speaking experience…and then I realized: This is...
2011-06-02
1,089 reads
SQLRally 2011 Women in Technology Luncheon
On May 12, during the first-ever SQLRally , we held the first-ever SQLRally Women in Technology luncheon! I moderated, and our...
2011-05-26
1,014 reads
Community Podcast CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
If you’re already a MidnightDBA Groupie, then you’ve probably already heard about my fabulous inspiration: a new SQL community podcast! Now...
2011-05-23
1,628 reads
Busy is as Busy Does
I am, as they say, one busy little bee.
I just got back from SQLRally last week (here are my SQLRally...
2011-05-20
556 reads
DBA Brush-Up
I have a session I like to give called “Forgotton T-SQL”, or sometimes “T-SQL Brush-Up”. The idea is that there’s...
2011-05-17
790 reads
PASS Summit Cometh, and That Right Soon
Look at the cute bunny. Now go vote for me.
I can see October from here, and it’s coming at about...
2011-05-10
526 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Analysis Services Model w/ Direct Query and (Default Veritpaq)
Analysis Services (either the integrated workspace in Power BI or on a SQL Server)...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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