Taking a new approach to documentation I’m sure I’m not alone when I say I haven’t been as good at keeping documentation as I should have. In fact, it’s been a bit of chore that I dislike doing. N...

Pass Data Summit 2023 I am excited that I finally get to go to Pass. It’s funny how it happened. I have been working on trying to make our database operations more devops friendly along with le...

Windows is fading Ok, to be fair… via GIPHY Windows is fading in my technological life, maybe not everyone else’s. Earlier this spring I replaced my older desktop with a Mac Studio. Nothing fan...

Life got busy again… It’s been another couple of months since I’ve posted, and I honestly don’t have an excuse other than life got busy again. Since January, my primary focus has been completing t...

More DevOps Since I attended re:Invent in November, my interest in DevOps has deepened. So to that end, I’ve been trying to apply more of the concepts and ideals to my everyday work. In early 2...

Welcome to SQL-Mac 2.0 I’m really kind of excited about this update of the blog. I recently discovered Jekyll and spent sometime watching videos, reading blogs, and just playing around with the ap...

Volunteering to be an EMT Since the world of work has changed so much since the pandemic, I, like so many others, have become a full time work from home employee. Like anything, there are pros a...

re:Invent Part 2 I have a pretty established rountine when I get up in the morning. First thing first, make the coffee and pateintly wait for God’s go juice to help get me going with wanting to co...

I went to re:Invent in Vegas I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted, and there are a lot of good reasons for that which I’ll get to soon enough. That being said, I wanted to put a post up abou...

I need a home lab Over the last few months, I’ve been tinkering with different OS’es, databases, and other stuff that requires the spinning up and down of VMs. Which has led to a number of headach...