Database engineer with a passion for automation
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again! March felt really long for a lot of us as we got used to our new way of life, so I’m excited we made it to April’s prompt. This month’s topic is asking for a discussion around whether unit testing for databases is valuable. Since getting involved with dbatools and…
There was an amazing response to my TSQL2sday prompt for February 2020 where I encouraged folks to share their life hacks. So firstly, thanks to everyone who participated. A lot of people had more than one life hack so I recommend reading all of the posts linked to below. For this summary post I’ve tried…
It’s time for the February edition of T-SQL Tuesday. I am really grateful to be able to host this edition and look forward to reading everyone’s contributions. In case you are new to T-SQL Tuesday this is the monthly blog party started by Adam Machanic (b|t) and now hosted by Steve Jones (b|t). It’s a…
What a great topic for the start of the year as we’re all thinking about goal setting and personal improvement. Thanks to Jon Shaulis (b|t) for hosting this first monthly blog party of the decade. Imposter syndrome is mentioned so often in our community, and it’s really interesting to me the wide number of people,…
This is a time for material gift giving, for many of us. It might also be a time to consider the many gifts we have received through the year, and perhaps use this opportunity to appreciate people or situations that we were blessed with. When I first saw Mala’s post last week for the last…
It’s time for our monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party again and we have another interesting prompt to write about. Thanks goes to Alex Yates (b|t) for hosting this month. I’ve thought about this a lot over the last few days and really wanted to find a technical topic to write about, but over and over…
This month our T-SQL Tuesday host, Kevin Chant (b|t), has challenged us to propose a new fantasy feature for SQL Server. Firstly, thanks to Kevin for hosting this month’s blog party. When I first read the invitation I didn’t have any ideas jump straight into my mind. Since then, I’ve come up with two. I’m…
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is all about Memory Optimized Tables (MOT), a topic I will admit I know almost nothing about. When they first came out in 2014 I was excited about the new technology and the options that would bring, however I never found a good reason to implement them. Thanks to Steve Jones…
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again and our host this week, Shane O’Neill (b|t), has challenged us to a humble brag. This really is a challenge for most of us as we do awesome things quietly, so thanks to Shane for forcing us to share some ‘cookies’. This is also the second time in a couple…
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again and thanks goes this week to our host Andy Leonard (b|t). Andy has picked a great topic on why we do the things we do. With our hectic lives it’s good sometimes to sit down and have a think about something like this. I’ve split my ‘what I do’ up into…