How Do We Prove Expertise?
Today, Grant Fritchey talks about the two paths to expertise for database professionals and why it’s hard to really know if someone is an expert.
2020-01-17
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Grant Fritchey
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Let's Fix a Password Problem
Grant discusses the need for password managers to help prevent security issues between different accounts.
2020-01-15
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2020-01-11
279 reads
Learn to Change
This week Grant talks about the need for change and growth to adapt to the changing world.
2019-12-21
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2019-11-23
1,871 reads
Become a Technological Historian
This week Grant muses on how history can impact our decisions moving forward, and having a little empathy can be useful when re-examining the past.
2019-10-26
132 reads
Celebrate Success
Today Grant reminds us to not only think about the things we can do better, but remember the good things that we accomplish.
2019-09-28
154 reads
Thanking the Volunteers
Grant takes a moment to thank the SQL Saturday organizers that put on these amazing events.
2019-09-27
106 reads
Best Practices and Band Plans
Grant Fritchey explains how database best practices should be followed more like those in Ham radio.
2019-08-03
440 reads
Containers Are The Present, Not the Future
Last week was the MVP Summit. This year included a bunch of very technical discussions about some of the future of the Microsoft Data Platform (a big thank you goes to Slava Oks, Bob Ward, and all the team for a great job). I can’t share much since it was all under NDA. All I […]
2019-03-30
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What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers