Database engineer with a passion for automation
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time and I’ve finally managed to put some words into a blog post again. It’s been a few months since I’ve posted anything on my blog, things have been busy, and my motivation has been a little lacking. However, this topic has inspired me to try and pull something together. Thanks to…
It’s time for February’s monthly blog party. This month is hosted by Mikey Bronowski (b|t) and he’s asking us to write about our ‘tools of the trade’. He’s looking for those tools that make our lives easier, ones we couldn’t imagine going without. Thanks for hosting Mikey, can’t wait to read everyone’s contributions and add…
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…