Who are you? Building an identity map.
I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?, I had never heard of an identity map. It's a pretty simply thing: mapping all...
2025-04-01
11 reads
Brian Kelley
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Improving Our Conversations
If we aren't having the same conversation, we aren't going to be heard. That's what Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit, covered in the following TED talk:
2025-03-31
2 reads
Focus on Core Skills
Core skills depends on the position, but the point is that ensuring you have a strong foundational base for your chosen area is better than reaching for emerging skills.
2025-03-28
8 reads
Enterprise Digital Exhaust
Digital exhaust, or data exhaust, is the information you generate as you interact digitally. We've typically thought of this in terms of tracking cookies and the like, but it...
2025-03-07 (first published: 2025-02-25)
175 reads
Have a Plan for Your Personal Downtime
Most of us know that spending a lot of time on social media and surfing the web isn't good for us, but we still do it. Why? Because it...
2025-01-17 (first published: 2025-01-07)
487 reads
BK’s Bookshelf: Never Split the Difference
I picked up Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss, a former FBI negotiator. Given what I do, I realized that...
2025-01-10 (first published: 2025-01-01)
424 reads
Plan Time for Self-Development
As you begin the new year, if you don't already have time set aside each week for self-development, plan it. Don't just "make time," but actually set up the...
2025-01-02
21 reads
Non-Functional Requirements
I have found that non-functional requirements (NFRs) can be hard to define for a given solution. I’ve seen teams struggle with NFRs. However, to ensure I’m speaking the same...
2025-01-01 (first published: 2024-05-08)
645 reads
Microsoft Fabric Training and Tutorials
Microsoft Fabric is the new data offering in Microsoft Azure and there is a great deal of interest in it. How do you get started? Where are the tutorials?
2024-12-23 (first published: 2024-04-29)
751 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Avoid Perfect for Good Enough
I'm listening to Effortless by Greg McKeon (link to author's page) through Audible.com. He points out that often times, a quest for perfection means we don't move forward. We...
2024-11-22 (first published: 2024-11-12)
439 reads
Blogs
The Cost of Not Having a DBA
By Kevin3NF
Does skipping a DBA save money? Wait until your system grinds to a halt,...
Who are you? Building an identity map.
By Brian Kelley
I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?,...
Call a Fabric REST API from Azure Data Factory
Suppose you want to call a certain Microsoft Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure...
Forums
How to update using data from three tables?
I am in the process of migrating from MySQL to SQL Server. I have...
Select Returning Blank Rows
I have the following select statement --#1 Select supplier, s.refnum, desc from supplier as...
How to update a history table with changes.
Good morning to all. I am a novice when it comes to SQL so...
Question of the Day
Replacing a NULL II
What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2022?
DECLARE @value INT = NULL , @value2 VARCHAR(20) = NULL; SELECT COALESCE (@value, @value2, 100.5) AS Result; GOSee possible answers