Voice of the DBA

Tag: syndicated

  • Daily Coping 11 June 2020

    I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.

    Today’s tip is smile and be friendly, even when you’re social distancing.

    I try to smile and wave a lot at people. I think that has been one reason I get through life with relatively little conflict.

    Wearing masks the last couple months has taken that away from me. I have tried to look at myself when smiling with a mark, and you see some of the signs, but wrinkle your nose in disgust and you see similar ones outside the mask.

    Instead, I’ve tried to send more kind words out, since I can’t smile. However, when I am without a mask, I do try to smile more, especially at service workers who are helping us all out with their efforts and their risk.

  • Next week is EightKB–The SQL Server Internals Conference

    Next week, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, the EightKB conference takes place. As with other events, it’s online, and it is full of high level content.

    It looks to be an fun event, with these speakers:

    • Bob Ward
    • Erin Stellato
    • Joey D’Antoni
    • Pam Lahoud
    • Argenis Fernandez

    An amazing group, brought together by Andrew Pruski (T|B), Mark Wilkinson (T|B), and Anthony Nocentino (T|B).

    If you want an entertaining day of content, sign up today and enjoy the ride.

  • Daily Coping 10 June 2020

    I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.

    Today’s tip is show your appreciation to those who are helping others.

    There are many people helping others these days. Healthcare workers, activists, and plenty of “essential” workers that have been risking their own health for income, for employment, and to provide for others.

    In my area, many of these people have to wear masks, by law (or decree), all day while working. I can see many of them sigh with relief when they can remove a mask.

    Paul Randal and Tim Radney have been printing lots of masks. Both of them have been graciously donating these to people around the US, along with plenty of others in the SQL Community. Redgate donated some money for supplies, and I donated some as well when I asked them to send me masks.

    I’ve been carrying these around in my car, bringing them into various businesses, groceries, gas stations, and more. I’m offering these to workers, including some nurses I know, to ease the pain of wearing masks all day long.

  • Creating a Repository from VSCode–#SQLNewBlogger

    I’ve been working with a few different git clients, and trying to write some articles to help people get started. As I do this, I thought it was interesting that I could initialize a repository from within Visual Studio Code and decided to make a short post.

    If I want to open a folder in VS Code, I can also create one from that dialog. Here I clicked the Open Folder item and then browsed to my git folder. I named this “GitTest”.

    2020-05-28 13_23_53-Open Folder

    Once this is open, I see it in VS Code as the open folder.

    2020-05-28 13_24_06-Welcome - GitTest - Visual Studio Code

    Now I click the Source Control icon in the menu. Since the folder is open, and it’s not a repo, I see the “Initialize Repository” button in this blade. I’ll click that.

    2020-05-28 13_24_16-Welcome - GitTest - Visual Studio Code

    I checked from the command line, and saw this was a git repository. Now I’ll create a new file. I click the new file icon, give it a name, and enter some code.

    2020-05-28 13_26_59-experiment.sql - GitTest - Visual Studio Code

    Now when I go to the Source Control tab, I see the file as one that’s changed. I can now enter a commit message and commit it if I want.

    2020-05-28 13_27_04-experiment.sql - GitTest - Visual Studio Code

    If I go to git, sure enough, here’s my untracked file.

    2020-05-28 13_27_18-cmd

    That’s it. I can now follow the normal commit process in VS Code for this repo.

    SQLNewBlogger

    Working with different IDEs and learning to be efficient is important. This is one of those places where I was able to easily learn a skill and spend 10 minutes writing about how it works.

    Putting this down is a nice showcase of skill, and learning to work better. You could do this as well and help drive that someone might ask you in the interview.