Monthly Archives: April 2023

WIT Women Speakers Survey

There is a survey from the WIT group for female speakers. If you are a woman and speak in front of groups, or used to, please fill it out. This is part of their efforts to help encourage more females … Continue reading

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Information Schema Strangeness

There was a Slack thread at Redgate recently where a developer was showing some code where they decided to use the “extra” column from the information_schema.columns view. They were making decisions on how to detect certain metadata about a column … Continue reading

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PASS Data Community Summit 2023 Registration is Open

You can register today for the 2023 PASS Data Community Summit. This year the event is in Seattle, Nov 14-17, and in-person only. The event was a lot of fun last year, with many great sessions and lots of networking … Continue reading

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Goal Progress for March 2023

The grade for March is also D. Details below, but just not making a lot of progress in these areas. In fact, I find myself not motivated to work on goals very much. That’s a bit sad, but it’s also … Continue reading

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