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TSQL Tuesday #184: Mentoring and Sponsorship

  • Posted onMarch 11, 2025March 11, 2025
  • editorial

Thank you to Deborah Melkin for hosting TSQL Tuesday this month! I’ve always considered mentoring and sponsorship very structured. Now, I wonder if they’re also small things we do for one another. In the past, I thought mentoring was one-on-one meetings with another person to…

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T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup

  • Posted onNovember 20, 2024November 20, 2024
  • dba

This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all who posted on this topic! Here are the highlights of the posts (in alphabetical order by last name): Chad Callihan – In his post, Chad talks about stepping away: “Sometimes, the best way…

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T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect

  • Posted onNovember 5, 2024November 5, 2024
  • dba

How can you achieve good enough without compromising the process/product? In the world of database technology, striving for perfection is a double-edged sword. While high standards are important for maintaining reliable, efficient systems, trying for absolute perfection can quickly lead to back-breaking workloads and burnout.…

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Data (and Humans) At Rest

  • Posted onJuly 30, 2024July 30, 2024
  • dba

We talk a lot about data in the data world – imagine that! Sometimes, we talk about data at rest, but when do we all rest? Do we even rest as much as our data does? There is some idea that you need to work…

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How Do You Decide What to Learn?

  • Posted onApril 2, 2024April 2, 2024
  • editorial

There are so many choices and so little time. How do you go about deciding what to learn? I have to delicately balance everything I think I want to learn with what is a reasonable amount of things to learn and what will benefit my…

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Dear Women in Tech, You Can Present at EightKB, Too

  • Posted onMarch 21, 2024March 21, 2024
  • editorial

Last year, I submitted and was accepted to present at the EightKB conference. At first, I thought my current presentation wasn’t advanced enough, but Tracy Boggiano convinced me otherwise. Why did I think my presentation wasn’t advanced enough? I don’t really know. I assumed it…

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My Blog Post Writing Process

  • Posted onJanuary 2, 2024January 29, 2024
  • editorial

Idea Generation I start with the spark of an idea, usually jotted onto paper. Mainly, it’s just a title at that point. It might be more conceptual or based on a problem I had at work. If I had a problem at work, I would…

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Creativity in Technology

  • Posted onMarch 15, 2023March 21, 2023
  • dba

I was planning to write a blog post on how you can find ways to be creative in any technical pursuit. Then, I found out from a friend that they generated most of their last blog post from ChatGPT. I had to try it out…

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