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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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