Category: sql server

Most ‘superheroes’ are nothing of the sort.

Most “superheroes” are nothing of the sort. They’re weird, neurotic creatures who do big things DESPITE lots of self-defeating habits and self-talk. – Tim Ferriss, Tools of Titans (2017), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Sounds familiar. Today’s question – from a person who is TERRIBLE at delegating things – is this: How do you decide what to […]

Unit measurements. (Quettabytes, anyone?)

As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on Friday introduced four new prefixes to the International System of Units, or metric system: ronna (27 zeroes after the first digit) […]

#PASSSummit #SQLPASS #Summit2022

The big SQL Server conference, PASS Data Community Summit, is this week! If you’re not attending live, you can still register and attend virtually. You who are registered, what sessions are you looking forward to? My strong considerations this year: Wednesday, Nov 16, 2022 Beware Nondeterministic T-SQL Code How to Write a Kickass Anything Learning […]