Free Session: The Mystery of Query Timeouts
Category:
database-administration
I’m giving a webinar tomorrow! (Do people still use the word webinar? Was that just incredibly uncool?)
kendra little
Are You An Expert?
Category:
database-administration
Should you call yourself an expert? And what does it take to be an expert?
Caching and Grocery Shopping
Category:
database-administration
I recently talked with @TheJudgeOfCheese (t) about design patterns and grocery shopping.
Down the Rabbit Hole
Category:
career
You often don’t realize you’ve gone too far until it’s too late.
What Do You Call a Group of Experts?
Category:
database-administration
, career
What’s an expert?
A variety of definitions of “expert” get tossed around – a specialist, someone with comprehensive knowledge, the person who knows more about a topic than anyone else within six feet. Many people go the way of the Supreme Court and say they know an expert when they see it.
SQLPeople events
Category:
database-administration
Not too long ago, Andy Leonard (blog|twitter) dreamed up the idea to create the SQLPeople community. The community is forming around the stories and ideas of its members. The SQLPeople website shares stories.
Using APPLY for calculations
Category:
tsql-programming
Here’s a little TSQL snack. I picked this up in a presentation by Itzik Ben-Gan at the PNWSQL user group recently, and it’s become a fast favorite.