The LobsterPot Blog

Louis Davidson is hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, and asks us to relive mistakes. Ouch! It’s fine – I already had a psychologist appointment scheduled

Mike Walsh from StraightPath wants us to write two short notes to former selves. One writing now to ten years ago (2025 me to 2015

The smart money is on SQL Server 2025 being released to General Availability this month. Next week there are two major conferences in the Microsoft

Steve Jones asks how we parse strings. As Steve writes, there are a bunch of ways to parse strings in SQL. And (which Steve doesn’t

Todd Kleinhans asks us to write about “Mastering A New or Existing Technical Skill”. Todd is one of my favourite people in the data community

Taiob Ali is asking how AI is changing our careers. It’s a good question – one question worth reflecting on, even if the general perception