T-SQL Tuesday #193 - Notes to Self

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Mike Walsh
(blog) asks us:

Write two short notes to yourself. One to the...

PASS Data Community Summit 2025 Slides and Code

Thank you for attending my PASS Summit 2025 session Answering the Auditor’s Call with Automation! I will have a more comprehensive post in the coming days. Slides and demo...

Finding Data Friends

I’ve been enjoying Ben Weissmann (Blog | LinkedIn) & Jess Pomfret’s (Blog | LinkedIn ) weekly program Finding Data Friends for a couple years now, getting to know (by...

Speaking at PASS Summit 2025

In less than one month, I will be speaking not once but twice at PASS Data Community Summit 2025.
Thursday, November 20th at 1 PM I will be in the...

Installing Old Versions of PowerShell Modules with Their Dependencies

I don’t recall where this came up (probably in SQLSlack), but I had a need to install an older version of dbatools to test something related to loading the...

Summer Speaking Summary 2025

In the blink of an eye, summer has passed. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for things to get back to “normal” after 10 weeks of events...

T-SQL Tuesday 188 - Growing the Younger Data Community and Speakers

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, John Sterrett
(blog) asks us:

What are you doing, or what can we do...

Speaking Engagements 2025

It’s been a minute since I’ve gotten out to speak at events, but the second half of 2025 is going to be packed.

T-SQL Tuesday #186 Roundup - Managing Agent Jobs

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday!

Here’s a roundup of the posts.

T-SQL Tuesday #186 - Agent Job History Visualization

I’m hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and our topic is Managing SQL Agent Jobs. In this post, we’ll be taking a look at a very handy combination of dbatools...