Book Review: Highest Duty, My Search For What Really Matters
Highest Duty, My Search For What Really Matters by Chesley Sullenberger is the autobiography of the pilot who landed Flight...
2011-11-21
882 reads
SQLAndy
Managing By Walking Around
For a long time a core piece of my ‘style’ has been to wander the halls a couple times a...
2011-11-18
603 reads
Culture Cubes
A while back I posted about Culture Posters, a technique for trying to build your culture by writing down the...
2011-11-17
813 reads
Distance Decreases Stress
When I’m managing I tend to absorb the stress that my teams feel. It’s my job to help them be...
2011-11-17
629 reads
Identify Risk Early
One of the mistakes I see a lot is teams failing to identify risks early and failing to leave time...
2011-11-16
474 reads
The Calendar Driven Organization
I’ve had jobs where I might have one meeting a week, I’ve had a few with some type of daily...
2011-11-15
735 reads
A Plug for IT Pro Camps
Here is something else that started in Florida (doesn’t everything?), a series of events along the lines of Code Camp...
2011-11-14
578 reads
Lists of Words You May Not Know
The Merriam-Webster site has an interesting list of Top 10 Lists, ranging from commonly confused words to things you didn’t...
2011-11-14
638 reads
Culture Shock
The work I’m doing right now has nothing to do with SQL Server, and while it deals with technology, it’s...
2011-11-14
687 reads
Tentative Meetings
A lot of my work right now involves going to meetings. A few of them are ones I host, a...
2011-11-10
614 reads
Blogs
SQL Training: Black Friday Deals Up to 75% Off
This Black Week, don't just get a discount—get ahead! Whether you're a total newbie...
When is the perfect moment to build a data strategy in a company?
The post When is the perfect moment to build a data strategy in a...
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
Forums
Simple Junction table design question
I have a disagreement with the programming team on an app that I designed....
Sql query to check the status change for an item
I have a table dbo.tblPresentationStatus (sql script attached - table script.txt) I have to...
Migration of on-premises SQL Server to an AWS PostgreSQL database
We are planning to migrate our on-premises SQL Server to an AWS PostgreSQL database...
Question of the Day
Renaming a Database
If I want to rename the OldSales database to ArchiveSales, how can I do this? (choose 2)
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