This is part two in a five part series this week, Moving into Consulting 101.
Today's consulting topic is friendly advice on how to handle yourself in front of clients,...
2021-03-31 (first published: 2021-03-23)
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Introduction to this blog series
After being laid off by a Great Recession-era mortgage company in 2007, I entered into consulting. I made that switch from in-house DBA to consulting...
2021-03-30 (first published: 2021-03-22)
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Say you have a temp table and you want to see the columns names.
For example, I was trying to convert a query from using a #temp table to a...
2021-03-04 (first published: 2021-02-26)
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I'll be presenting at two virtual SQL data platform communities this week on a couple well-rehearsed topics, each with fresh updates.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST
DBA...
2021-02-22
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I'll be presenting at 7AM Central Time in the first timeslot of the main three-day PASS Virtual Summit 2020 conference. It's long been a goal of mine to present...
2020-11-04
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Not many disaster recovery or SQL migration/upgrade scenarios require the SQL Server instance service master key to be restored.
Some do.
Recently, by far the most frequent and common disaster recovery...
2020-11-09 (first published: 2020-11-03)
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Honored to be a part of not just SQLSaturday #1000, but the long proud history of the free community series of SQLSaturdays celebrating their 1000th+ event. (I spoke at...
2020-10-19
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Enjoyed the heck out of tonight's October special edition of the virtual Baton Rouge .NET and SQL User Groups meeting, where we had a lot of active chat, three...
2020-10-15
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Looking forward to presenting at SQLSaturday Memphis virtually this weekend!
Both my wife and I are on the schedule for Saturday, and the organizers chose interesting nontechnical topics for both...
2020-09-29
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Note: co-authored with Christine Assaf, originally published in the now-defunct PASS Blog.
Historical data analysis that is naïve to past discrimination is doomed to parrot bias. How do we combat bias in our...
2020-09-23
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A sequential scan is not always a problem — PostgreSQL's planner often chooses one...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an...
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