The topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #174 hosted by Kevin Feasel (Blog) is regarding our favorite job interview question. Read on to see my thoughts on job interview questions from both sides of the table…
Read More » The topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #171 hosted by the great and powerful Brent Ozar (Blog) is about our most recent closed issue.
Read More » The topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #167 hosted by Matthew McGiffen (Blog / Twitter) is about encryption and data protection in SQL Server.
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The topic for this months T-SQL Tuesday #113 hosted by Todd Kleinhans (Blog / Twitter) is about “what do YOU use a database for”. We work all day, night, and weekend sometimes on our database craft. Todd asks:
So what do you use databases for in your personal life that you are willing to share?
Read on to hear my story.
Read More » The topic for this months T-SQL Tuesday #112 hosted by Shane O’Neill (Blog / Twitter) is about “dipping into your cookie jar”. This reference means “when times get tough how do you dip into your reserves to keep going”. Shane asks the following:
That is what I want from the contributors of this T-SQL Tuesday, those memories that they can think back on for sustenance. Like the humble cookie, I want a humble brag.
Read on as I share some stories…
Read More » There is a famous book in our field written in the 2000’s by Ed Yourdon called “Death March“. In it he details the phenomenon in project management of death march software projects. He observed a trend in organizations who plan software projects to estimate so poorly that completion becomes overwhelming and unlikely.
More companies than ever before could be considered “software companies”. Project planning hasn’t gotten much better over time and we still have terribly managed projects. The best reason to explain this I found on Quora – Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? In particular, read the answer by Michael Wolfe midway through the page. It is both a humorous and scary analogy.
On this month of Halloween we are going to discuss our death march project horrors!
The topic for this months T-SQL Tuesday #100 (hosted by Adam Machanic Blog/Twitter) is:
“…put on your speculative shades and forecast the bright future ahead. Tell us what the world will be like when T-SQL Tuesday #200 comes to pass.”
Big thanks to Adam for starting this monthly blog party and keeping the energy going!
Let’s predict the future of SQL Server! I will share with you my best guesswork about how it will be to work with SQL Server 2026.