Review: Gamma Seal Lids
Last weekend I needed to go to Home Depot to get a five gallon bucket and a lid so we...
2011-11-22
709 reads
SQLAndy
Book Review: Highest Duty, My Search For What Really Matters
Highest Duty, My Search For What Really Matters by Chesley Sullenberger is the autobiography of the pilot who landed Flight...
2011-11-21
894 reads
Managing By Walking Around
For a long time a core piece of my ‘style’ has been to wander the halls a couple times a...
2011-11-18
608 reads
Culture Cubes
A while back I posted about Culture Posters, a technique for trying to build your culture by writing down the...
2011-11-17
819 reads
Distance Decreases Stress
When I’m managing I tend to absorb the stress that my teams feel. It’s my job to help them be...
2011-11-17
635 reads
Identify Risk Early
One of the mistakes I see a lot is teams failing to identify risks early and failing to leave time...
2011-11-16
482 reads
The Calendar Driven Organization
I’ve had jobs where I might have one meeting a week, I’ve had a few with some type of daily...
2011-11-15
741 reads
A Plug for IT Pro Camps
Here is something else that started in Florida (doesn’t everything?), a series of events along the lines of Code Camp...
2011-11-14
582 reads
Lists of Words You May Not Know
The Merriam-Webster site has an interesting list of Top 10 Lists, ranging from commonly confused words to things you didn’t...
2011-11-14
643 reads
Culture Shock
The work I’m doing right now has nothing to do with SQL Server, and while it deals with technology, it’s...
2011-11-14
693 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Responsibility
By Steve Jones
“The foundation of maturity: Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not...
Power BI Performance in 2026: A Practical Guide to Faster Semantic Models and Reports
By James Serra
Originally published April 2022; substantially updated July 2026. This post is a complete replacement...
Getting Started with Azure SQL Developer on Macbook
The idea behind Azure SQL Developer is for anyone to build, iterate, and test...
Forums
Migration Challenge: Excessive FULLSCAN Statistics Update Duration Blocking SQL
Hello everyone , I am planning to migrate a database from SQL Server 2014...
SQL Agent Job Automated Change Capture Process
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Agent Job Automated Change...
Another Model, More Data Loss
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Question of the Day
Finding a Database Master Key
Where do I check for the existence of a Database Master Key (DMK) in SQL Server 2025?
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