Balancing Hard and Soft Skills
Today Steve talks about the soft skills and why these might be important as you advance in your career and grow into a senior role.
2019-07-02
526 reads
Career Growth
Improving Tech with Compassionate Code
There is quite a bit of suffering within tech and caused by tech, from poorly commented code to shaming someone who asks a question on a forum. In this article, Samuel Nitsche explains why compassionate coding is a better way to go.
2019-06-27
Setting Session Skill Levels
Kathi Kellenberger discusses the challenge of deciding how to describe the content in the sessions she presents.
2019-06-10
368 reads
Cloud Pace
There are a couple big changes that the cloud brings to us. Steve has a few comments today.
2019-06-06
426 reads
2025-06-11 (first published: 2019-05-24)
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The Ironic DBA—Starting a New and Unexpected Career?
Hey there! I’m Jeff, the latest apprentice at Da...
2019-05-24
Burning Out
Burning out in an IT job is easier to do than it should be. Steve has a little advice today.
2019-05-23
444 reads
Successfully Managing Upwards and Getting Your Boss on Your Side Part 1
Edwin M Sarmiento is a Filipino Microsoft Data Pla...
2019-05-23
2019-05-22
The Other Jobs
This week Steve is asking what jobs you might choose if you had the chance, as well as those you enjoyed, or perhaps dreaded.
2019-05-17
274 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...
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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