Josephine Bush (@hellosqlkitty) asks us about job titles this month. And it's something I've often wondered about, and haven't really had a clue about for the past fifteen years. My…

Code doesn't tend to generate emotions in the same way that a painting might. The architecture of a piece of software doesn't make us marvel in the same way as…

The topic for this month's delayed T-SQL Tuesday is career advice. Specifically, asking what the best we've received is. I have three kids, aged 25, 23, and 15. So I'd…

Hybrid user group meetings can be good. And by 'hybrid user group meetings' I mean user group meetings that are a mix of remote and in-person, not user group meetings…

At the Microsoft Build conference this week, the biggest of the data-focused announcements was about Microsoft Fabric. I'd had a lot of conversations about Fabric under NDA agreements in the…

Well, Tomaz said ChatGPT rather than AI, but I'm going to comment on AI in general. And I know this post will date very quickly, but that's expected. Right now…

The topic this month (from Reitse Eskens - @2meterDBA) is about “Fun T-SQL”. Now, I remember writing T-SQL to create palindromes once. It’s over at https://www.itprotoday.com/sql-server/palindromes-puzzle-solutions, and dates back to…

T-SQL Tuesday this month sees Damien Jones (@amamzonwebshark) ask about our wishlist for OpenAI in the Microsoft space. Normally I'd have spent a week thinking about the T-SQL Tuesday topic,…

This month, Deepthi Goguri (@dbanuggets) asks us about our favourite new feature in SQL Server 2022 or Azure. And while there are always a few, I'm going to write about…

"If best-practice was always worth following, they'd take the option away." I don't know who said this - certainly it's something that I've said before. It's not entirely true, but…