2020-07-02
95 reads
Career Growth
A 2020 Look at Software Developers
The results of a survey on software developers has some interesting insights.
2020-07-01
166 reads
Evaluating Life at Work
It can be hard to evaluate your career and job situation, but Steve has some ideas today.
2020-06-19
202 reads
Are You a Gatekeeper?
One of the problems that I've seen in many parts of life is the belief that things must proceed a certain way. I caught an article on ways teachers have made school less fun for kids because they adhered to some rule or belief too tightly. I think many of those stories are true because […]
2020-06-12
185 reads
Sabotage at Work
Some of the work habits that might sabotage an organization appear to have been adopted by some of Steve's former employers.
2020-06-01
260 reads
The Challenges of Working Under Quarantine
It's been nearly two months since the Redgate Software offices closed. I am not normally in the office, but I did cancel a trip that I normally would have taken to touch base with a number of teams. That's a minor change for me, but a still a change. It's much less than the disruption that […]
2020-05-28
123 reads
Enriching Your Life
As I was looking to build career goals for the new year, I think mostly about technical topics. That makes sense, given my focus and job, but I ran across an interesting thread on Hacker News that asked about skills to work on in 2020, and not necessarily technical ones. I did find it interesting […]
2020-05-26
101 reads
The Life List
Today Steve notes that having a list of things to do before you die can be a driving force for you.
2020-05-22
101 reads
Investing in Speed
Much of what we do to improve ourselves is an investment in our work. The same thing could be said about businesses. Today a little advice about making an investment.
2020-05-20
172 reads
Taking Quarantine Holiday
What will you do about vacation during the pandemic? Steve gives his thoughts.
2020-05-15
121 reads
Blogs
What’s New at AWS re:Invent 2025 – Day2 Highlights
Day 2 kicked off with Matt Garman’s keynote, and he opened with a quote...
Quantum Computing and SQL Server Article Is Up
By Brian Kelley
In parallel with the presentation I gave at the PASS Data Community Summit on...
SQL Server – What To Do When Disaster Strikes (5-Point Survival Guide)
SQL Server – What To Do When Disaster Strikes (5-Point Survival Guide)Chill, coffee first.When...
Forums
Improving update statistics process for 6 big tables
Recently I was asked to investigate the update statistics process on a particular database....
Adding a Lot of Seconds
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Question of the Day
Adding a Lot of Seconds
When does this code work and when does it fail?
DECLARE @BaseDate DATETIME = '1900-01-01'; SELECT DATEADD(SECOND, 2147483648, @BaseDate) AS [MaxIntSecondsAdded];See possible answers