T-SQL Tuesday #98 – Your Technical Challenges Conquered

Welcome to the January 2018 edition of T-SQL Tuesday and I am your host BlobEater (Arun Sirpal).

If you do not know  what T-SQL Tuesday is then a quick recap. T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog initiative hosted by a different blogger each month. This was founded by Adam Machanic (blog|@AdamMachanic) and is a great way of encouraging people to write. With that being said let’s move on to the topic which will be a challenging one.

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Folks Who Have Made a Difference

TSQL Tuesday time hosted by Ewald (https://sqlonice.com/tsql-tuesday-96-folks-who-have-made-a-difference/) and quite simply one man has morphed me into who I am today – Paul Randal. Over two years ago I was a one of many that had the chance to be mentored by him. It lasted just under one year and the effects were huge for me.

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Interviews and Oranges

What a great topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday hosted by Kendra Little https://littlekendra.com/2017/08/01/tsql-tuesday-93-interviewing-patterns-anti-patterns/

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The topic being: Interviewing Patterns and Anti-Patterns. I have had MANY (50 +) interviews over time with a lot of failures, so what have I learnt?

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Microsoft Data Platform is changing – so am I

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday entry hosted by Koen Verbeeck (http://sqlkover.com/t-sql-tuesday-89-invitation-the-times-they-are-a-changing/), a blog post about how we feel about the ever changing times within our technology space. Personally I love this new era of cloud computing and do not feel threatened in anyway.

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Extreme situations require extreme commands

The title is adapted from a child-hood movie of mine and is my daily (database-related) WTF moment and it is my entry for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday found: http://www.pontop.dk/single-post/2017/03/07/Announcing-T-SQL-Tuesday-88-%E2%80%93-The-daily-database-related-WTF

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