The 1433rd Psalm

The DBA is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green Integration Services tasks:
he leadeth me beside the still SSDs.

He restoreth my filegroups:
he leadeth me in the paths of MS best practices for his sanity’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley [...]

A Tale of Training

As a follow-up to my previous post about the steps you may have to go through to attend training if your employer can’t or won’t offer assistance in the form of either money or time off, I have a story of my own to tell. I was unhappy at my previous place of work [...]

Negotiating Your Way to Training

In honor of today being the last day to get the special preview rate for the 2012 PASS Summit, I thought I’d offer some tips on negotiating with your boss for money to attend such a conference or training event. For more info about registration, click here.

Keeping up to date in the technology world [...]

T-SQL Tuesday #24: Functions v. Procedures

This month bring us the 24th edition of T-SQL Tuesday (24 already? wow….). This time around our topic comes from Brad Schulz (blog) and has to do with stored procedures and functions. Brad’s asking us to write whatever we’d like about either of them.

While from the bird’s-eye view both functions (the table-valued [...]

Thoughts on #SQLFamily

This is the second time I’ve participated in the “Meme Monday” blog events that have been brought to us by Tom LaRock (blog | @SQLRockstar). The topic is on what “SQL Family” means to us. A few things popped into my head as soon as I read it, and I’m happy to share [...]