Can you give some indication of the reason people might want to use KQL rather than SQL?  What advantages does it have that justify the effort of learning it?

Agree completely with your article.

One additional thing to note is that like a religion, "Agile" has acreeted lots of extraneous things, which are rather distant from the original Agile manifesto. ...

Version control is important.  Not using it is unprofessional.

GIT is everywhere.  It is a good version control system for people working on open source projects or where multiple companies are...

I have had a log at the blog you mentioned, and also Joe Celkos piece (https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/sql/learn-sql-server/sql-server-sequence-basics/).  I can see linked server differences might be useful if you are...

GIT makes sense where people are collaborating across organisations.  However the distributed model is - by definition - more complex than a centralised repository paradigm.  Where developers are co-located in...

I do a lot of extracting data from SQL Server for displaying in Excel.
What I have found work best is to use ExcelDNA (https://excel-dna.net/) to provide an intermediate...

What I have done in old versions of SQL to control row-by-row access is to use a "Portal Database" pattern.  

The actual data is held in a central database...

"Either you master therecalcitrant database or retire, sadly, into the dingy half-life of ITmanagement."
Literally LOL