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A quick rant about Sargability

  • Post author:Rob Farley
  • Post published:July 11, 2022
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Deborah Melkin (@dgmelkin) said "give us that rant" in her invitation for this month's T-SQL Tuesday. And I suspect I've been known for getting a little wound up about code…

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Your talk, or someone else’s?

  • Post author:Rob Farley
  • Post published:June 30, 2022
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Having withdrawn from my speaker spot at the PASS Data Community Summit 2022, the organisers have asked me to suggest people who might be able to deliver my session. I'm…

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Speaker diversity

  • Post author:Rob Farley
  • Post published:June 29, 2022
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I was really pleased to have a session accepted for the PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle this coming November. The acceptance email said that 516 individuals had submitted 863…

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Coding standards or values?

  • Post author:Rob Farley
  • Post published:June 14, 2022
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As a consultant, I see code written in plenty of different organisations. Some of them have rules about their code, and many don't. I have to work within their standards,…

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New website, thanks to Paper Sword B2B

  • Post author:Rob Farley
  • Post published:June 3, 2022
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It's so exciting! In case you haven't noticed, you're reading this on a new design now. And if you followed a URL that was in the blogs subdomain, it's redirected…

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My first technical job

  • Post author:Rob Farley
  • Post published:May 10, 2022
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Technically my first job was in newspaper delivery, but Ken Fisher (@sqlstudent144)'s challenge is to write about my first technical job, which came much later. And no, I'm not planning…

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Advice about T-SQL for beginners

  • Post author:Rob Farley
  • Post published:April 19, 2022
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Following on from my last post... what advice would I give about T-SQL to my younger-self? Well, for that I'm going back a long way. To when I had learned…

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Advice, wasted on the young

  • Post author:Rob Farley
  • Post published:April 12, 2022
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In 1997, Baz Lurhmann released a song called "Wear Sunscreen", based on text written by Mary Schmich (although I had to look that up). It was a hypothetical speech that…

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When should your user group meet?

  • Post author:Rob Farley
  • Post published:March 8, 2022
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Upgrading SQL

  • Post author:Rob Farley
  • Post published:February 8, 2022
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