A New Word: Suente

suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be in a room with them without thinking, without holding anything back, or without having to...

Comforting Habits

As we get close to the holidays, Steve ruminates on routines and habits.

DCL

Grinding Away: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar is a very successful DBA/consultant/speaker/business owner in the data platform space. Many of you have likely seen him speak, read his blog, used his sp_Blitz script, or...

My 2024 in Data: Music

This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back on the 30th for a minute), so I decided to do some analysis of my...

Changing the Origin in Git–#SQLNewBlogger

I needed to show a customer how to migrate from Azure DevOps to GitHub recently, and to smooth this process, we needed to repoint the origin remote. Another post...

My 2024 in Data: Health and Workouts

This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back on the 30th for a minute), so I decided to do some analysis of my...

Big Data or Small Data

Today Steve talks about big data sets and whether we really need them, or even enjoy working with them.

Function Defaults

My 2024 in Data: Reading

This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back on the 30th for a minute), so I decided to do some analysis of my...