Future of the DBA Steve Jones (blog/twitter) wrote a blog post talking about the death of the Database Administrator. Mind you, he was talking about the title of DBA, not the actual job of being a...

The 101st addition to the SQL monthly blog party is being hosted by Jens Vestergaard (b/t). For the topic this month, Jens has asked which tools are essential to our daily job. Or rather, which t...

I have recently been working on tuning a job that purges data out of various tables that are older than 13 months using GetDate(). Pretty straight forward right? Well originally the job consisted o...

The non popular view I had a flash of brilliance this week, and that’s a rare thing for me. I came to an understanding with myself that I can’t solve all the world’s problems, most people disagree...

This month’s blog topic for TSQL Tuesday is learning goals in 2018 and is being hosted by Mala Mahadevan (blog/twitter). Mala has challenged the SQL community to list out specific learning plans ...

I think I’m actually going to make this TSQL Tuesday, it’s the first for me in a while. I kind of have a valid excuse, I left my job at the hospital in Denver and took a job in Duluth, MN. So cur...

Leaving DHHA It’s hard to believe this is my last week in Denver. Come Monday I am moving to northern Wisconsin. I’m jumping in the truck alone to head for the Great Lake region with my wife follo...

I feel accomplished a bit this year, I’ve made it to two SQLSaturdays in the same calendar year. This SQLSaturday was put on by the Denver SQL Users group and was hosted at the University of Denv...

Every so often, you come across game-changing information and most of the time, this type of information costs money. So it is EXTREMELY rare to come across this type of information for free. With ...

Update: Microsoft admits being wrong on Linux **Hell is actually freezing over…. Having been in the IT industry for a while, I’ve learned a few things. One of those so-called things is, Microso...