"Tell us the story of how attending an IT conference or event resulted in an amazing career or life opportunity." writes Kevin Kline (@kekline). Except that I don't know that…

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…

Having withdrawn from my speaker spot at the PASS Data Community Summit 2022, the organisers have asked me to suggest people who might be able to deliver my session.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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…