T-SQL Tuesday 180 – Good enough is perfect

For this months T-SQL Tuesday contribution I cover my attempts to get to a level where good enough is perfect. Before I go any further, I want to thank Josephine Bush (l/x/m) who hosts this months T-SQL Tuesday. Josephine invites us all to discuss how do achieve good enough without compromising the process/product. You can … Read more

Increase in demand for Data Platform automation

Recently I have taken part in various discussions about why there is an increase in demand for Data Platform automation. Mostly linked to CI/CD deployments and working in a DevOps related way. In this post I want to share my personal thoughts about this, as well as some advice. Towards the end I mention a … Read more

T-SQL Tuesday #125 – Unit Testing database changes

My T-SQL Tuesday contribution for this month is about unit testing database changes. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Hamish Watson. You can read more about the invite by either clicking on the T-SQL Tuesday logo in this post or the link below. If you read Hamish’s invitation in detail here he explains very … Read more

Looking back at the last decade

I’ve been looking back at last decade since so much has changed in the last ten years. Now I have looked for an official name for the last decade because I was curious. According to the Wikipedia article here it’s the twenty-tens, so I will stick with that for now. As far as technology is … Read more