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Ageing code
I’m pretty sure both spellings are fine, so don’t come at me for putting an ‘e’ in ‘ageing’. The interwebs tell me the version with
Mistakes? Really, Louis? 😉
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
Notes to self…
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
SQL Server 2025 excitement – fuzzy is coming!
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
String parsing
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
Learning new skills
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