Database engineer with a passion for automation
Thanks to Elizabeth Nobel (b|t) for hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party and apologies for being as late as possible to the party! I love the topic of automation so felt sure I’d write something and then time slipped away. Luckily Mikey Bronowski (b|t) convinced me that it wasn’t too late to write something on…
I feel like I say this every month, but it’s already time for another edition of T-SQL Tuesday. This months blog party is hosted by Kenneth Fisher (B|T) and he’s looking for tips & tricks, but nothing DBMS related. As you might already know, I love shortcuts and tips & tricks – so I was…
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…
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…
Thanks to Jens Vestergaard for hosting T-SQL Tuesday #101. When I saw the topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, I knew instantly which tool I would write about. Although there are many great tools out there that make my job as a DBA easier (and I’m excited to read the summary for this month to see what…