Category Archives: Editorial

Republish: New IT Departments

Posted on August 23, 2021 by way0utwest

I’m off to South Dakota for a break and some unwired camping. You get New IT Departments to read. Has anything changed?

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A Lack of Error Handling

Posted on August 21, 2021 by way0utwest

I saw a post by Brent Ozar the other day, and it was a bit disturbing to me. A survey he posted on Twitter showed most people don’t bother with error handling in T-SQL. I’m not surprised, though I wonder … Continue reading →

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A New Community Summit

Posted on August 20, 2021 by way0utwest

The PASS Summit has been an annual event for a lot of my career. I attended the first one in 1999 and most of the rest through the years. After last year’s virtual Summit, I was concerned that we wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Better SQL is a Good Career Investment

Posted on August 18, 2021 by way0utwest

Many of us reading this are data professionals, and we likely know quite a bit about SQL in general. We may use T-SQL, specifically, with SQL Server, but many of the skills we have would be portable to other dialects, … Continue reading →

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