Category: People and Opinions

Women in Tech: Finding Allies #PASSDataSummit

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date November 16, 2023
Categories In Community, PASS Summit, sql server, SQLPASS, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, WIT
3 Comments on Women in Tech: Finding Allies #PASSDataSummit

The WIT panel spoke on an excellent topic today: needing, and finding, allies at work. Afterward and for the first time ever, I stood and spoke publicly about something in IT that traumatized me. Here is what I said. The panel makes an excellent point about watching out for opportunities to be an ally, e.g., […]

The book that made me love goal-setting

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date August 16, 2022
Categories In People and Opinions, Random helpfulness, Reviews, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC

Pete Wilkinson’s book “Unstoppable” finally made visualizations and goals make sense to me. Here’s a review!

SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and more)

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date October 13, 2021
Categories In Advanced, Applied SQL, Dev, Intermediate, Random helpfulness, RegEx, sql server, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Tech and Learning, TSQL

Yesterday, I had about 30 existing queries (and some multi-query processes) that I needed to turn into individual stored procedures. I could, of course, go through the entire list of queries manually, crafting CREATE PROC statements and so on. But what’s the fun in that? As much as possible, I like to use scripts on […]