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Pinal Dave (@pinaldave), who might always exist in my mind as the person who took me to a KFC in Bengaluru, asks us about how
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SARGable functions in SQL Server
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Be seen, even if you don’t feel worthy
The topic for this month’s delayed T-SQL Tuesday is career advice. Specifically, asking what the best we’ve received is. I have three kids, aged 25,
Hybrid user group meetings
Hybrid user group meetings can be good. And by ‘hybrid user group meetings’ I mean user group meetings that are a mix of remote and
Microsoft Fabric – an explanation for people who like relational databases
At the Microsoft Build conference this week, the biggest of the data-focused announcements was about Microsoft Fabric. I’d had a lot of conversations about Fabric
Embracing AI
Well, Tomaz said ChatGPT rather than AI, but I’m going to comment on AI in general. And I know this post will date very quickly,
Fun T-SQL
The topic this month (from Reitse Eskens – @2meterDBA) is about “Fun T-SQL”. Now, I remember writing T-SQL to create palindromes once. It’s over at
OpenAI developments
T-SQL Tuesday this month sees Damien Jones (@amamzonwebshark) ask about our wishlist for OpenAI in the Microsoft space. Normally I’d have spent a week thinking
