The topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #182 hosted by Rob Farley (Blog) is integrity. Read on to see my thoughts on integrity in the world of databases – in particular database corruption.
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T-SQL Tuesday #177 – Managing Database Code
The topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #177 hosted by Mala Mahadevan (Blog) is regarding how we manage our database repository. Read on to see my journey of using different repositories and source control for my code.
Read More » T-SQL Tuesday #174 – My Favorite Job Interview Question
The topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #174 hosted by Kevin Feasel (Blog) is regarding our favorite job interview question. Read on to see my thoughts on job interview questions from both sides of the table…
Read More » T-SQL Tuesday #171 – Describe the Most Recent Issue You Closed
The topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #171 hosted by the great and powerful Brent Ozar (Blog) is about our most recent closed issue.
Read More » T-SQL Tuesday #167 – Encryption and Data Protection
The topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #167 hosted by Matthew McGiffen (Blog / Twitter) is about encryption and data protection in SQL Server.
Read More » T-SQL Tuesday #113 – What Do You Use a Database For?
The topic for this months T-SQL Tuesday #113 hosted by Todd Kleinhans (Blog / Twitter) is about “what do YOU use a database for”. We work all day, night, and weekend sometimes on our database craft. Todd asks:
So what do you use databases for in your personal life that you are willing to share?
Read on to hear my story.
Read More » T-SQL Tuesday #112 – Facing the Unknown With Confidence
The topic for this months T-SQL Tuesday #112 hosted by Shane O’Neill (Blog / Twitter) is about “dipping into your cookie jar”. This reference means “when times get tough how do you dip into your reserves to keep going”. Shane asks the following:
That is what I want from the contributors of this T-SQL Tuesday, those memories that they can think back on for sustenance. Like the humble cookie, I want a humble brag.
Read on as I share some stories…
Read More » T-SQL Tuesday #108 – Penguins and Snakes
T-SQL Tuesday #107 Invitation: Death March
There is a famous book in our field written in the 2000’s by Ed Yourdon called “Death March“. In it he details the phenomenon in project management of death march software projects. He observed a trend in organizations who plan software projects to estimate so poorly that completion becomes overwhelming and unlikely.
More companies than ever before could be considered “software companies”. Project planning hasn’t gotten much better over time and we still have terribly managed projects. The best reason to explain this I found on Quora – Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? In particular, read the answer by Michael Wolfe midway through the page. It is both a humorous and scary analogy.
On this month of Halloween we are going to discuss our death march project horrors!