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 the ‘e’ is preferred in…

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 for later in the week.…

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 me), and one writing what…

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 data space, Microsoft Ignite and…

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 write) 2025 is going to…

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 simply because he sends people…

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 among many people I talk…

John Sterrett asks us where the next generation is. Well, not quite. He asks us what we're doing, or could be, to encourage younger people to get involved in the…

This month, my good friend and fellow Dune-fan Joe Fleming (@muaddba.bsky.social) from SQL Tailor Consulting asks us about weird problems, and in particular, how we troubleshoot them. Now, 'weird' is…

There are some things I really like about SQL Agent Jobs, which is why I'm secretly quite fond of this month's T-SQL Tuesday topic, from Andy Levy. Of course, there…