2018 was a tough personal year — Alzheimer's, a cancer recurrence, a family move, and a winter that wouldn't quit. A Thanksgiving Day reflection.

Two decades of cubicles, fluorescent lighting, and thermostat wars — a candid look at why open offices are failing workers and what needs to change.

A SQL Server DBA's first encounter with Postgres failover — the access maze, the manual promotion process, and how it compares to SQL Server Availability Groups.

DateTime supports integer arithmetic because of how it's stored internally. DateTime2 does not. Here's why, and what to use instead.

People have been predicting the death of the DBA for years. Steve Jones recently wrote about it — but his point was about the title, not the job. Here's what's actually changing.

T-SQL Tuesday #101 asks which tools DBAs depend on daily. I found out the hard way — by forgetting my laptop and spending a day improvising on a borrowed machine.

Batching large deletes to protect tempdb is the right call — until a datetime vs. date mismatch turns your delete loop into an all-night affair.

T-SQL Tuesday #97 challenges the SQL community to share specific learning plans for the upcoming year. Here's mine — including one goal that has nothing to do with technology.

A personal thank-you to the bloggers, speakers, and community leaders who shaped my growth as a DBA — and a nod to two colleagues who made the journey even better.

Wrapping up three years in Denver and heading to northern Wisconsin for a new role. The nostalgia is real, but so is the excitement.