2024-09-04
376 reads
Career Growth
5 Ways to Spend Your 2024 Learning and Development Budget in the US
Not many data professionals get a personal Learning and Development (L&D) budget that we can use at our discretion. This is something I encourage you to negotiate when you are considering a job or at your annual review. We all need to learn and a budget signifies your boss cares about you.
2024-08-23
What Do You Drop?
Time is a valuable resource in your lives, and when you decide to tackle something, something else gets dropped.
2024-08-16
84 reads
A Checklist for Learning
A checklist can be helpful, but it needs to be more than a list of things if it's going to drive your career.
2024-08-12
379 reads
Hiring in IT and Relevance of Domain Experience
When choosing to hire someone, do you want experience or freshness? A few thoughts from someone that had to go through this recently.
2024-08-12
1,394 reads
The Biggest Database Professional Challenges Today
What are the biggest challenges you face today? Steve asks the question and is hoping for a few answers from you.
2024-07-22
174 reads
What Do You Want to Learn?
There's a survey available to give your input for what topics you'd like to learn about at the next SQL Saturday.
2024-06-24
103 reads
The Costs and Rewards of Speaking
Steve has had a good time sharing knowledge with others at events. He gives you a few thoughts on why you might join him at a future event.
2024-05-24
122 reads
Are IT Certifications Still Relevant?
Steve talks about certifications today, after watching a video that showcases the benefits of why they are good for your career.
2024-05-08
297 reads
Action Over Knowledge
A big part of success is making an effort. Steve discusses the need to do things and not passively let life pass you by.
2024-05-01
181 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Redesis
By Steve Jones
redesis – n. a feeling of queasiness while offering someone advice, knowing they might...
Friday Flyway Tips: Autopilot in 10 minutes
By Steve Jones
The Solutions Engineers at Redgate recently released an Introduction to Redgate Flyway Autopilot course...
Visualising SQL Server in Kubernetes
The other day I came across an interesting repo on github, KubeDiagrams. What this...
Forums
Error when running sql server backup routine job
Guys, I am facing problems when running a backup routine JOB in SQL Server,...
Prepare Sum of Bill Amount Having two different status with fast performance
1, Customer table [TBLMEMBER] 's structure CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TBLMEMBER]( [TRANNO] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,...
Question of the Day
Counting Bits II
What is the result of this query in SQL Server 2022+?
select bit_count('7') See possible answers