One data professional s adventures with data..and beyond
NO AI was used to generate this content. Grammarly was used to check and correct language and sentences in parts. I just managed to get a post in for this landmark T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by Brent Ozar. Brent was kind enough to keep the submission window open for two weeks instead of the usual one, Continue reading "T-SQL Tuesday #200: Bad Query signals"
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra literally my go-to guy for data lakes and BI architecture. I am so tickled to be writing this right when am reading his book on Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh (small Continue reading "T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?"
The last T-SQL Tuesday of the year is hosted by my good friend Mike Walsh. Mike s call for us is to end the year on a poignant note write a note each to your past me and future me, on things you wish you knew, or learning plans or anything you d like to say. Continue reading "T-SQL Tuesday #193 Notes to past and future me"
This month’s TSQL Tuesday invite is from my good friend, long standing MVP and community volunteer Taiob Ali – Taiob’s call is to blog on how AI, (the biggest invention since the internet, according to some) is changing our careers. The place I work is passionate about AI adoption. We are exploring many tools in Continue reading "TSQL Tuesday #189: How is AI changing our careers"
I am responding late to a T-SQL Tuesday invite from John Sterrett. John s call is about various ways to grow young data community/speakers. I m going to take a brief detour to talk about what held us together as a community over the past two decades. We worked on a fantastic product – Microsoft SQL Server. Continue reading "TSQL Tuesday #188 Growing community"
AI is considered the new superpower. The adoption of AI in various capacities is at 72% across industries, worldwide, according to one study, and it does not show signs of slowing down. Meanwhile, concerns about ethical issues surrounding AI are also high. According to a Pew Research report published in April 2025, more than 60% Continue reading "Data Story: Ethics, Productivity, Age and AI:How do…
This month s invite is from Erik Darling, who invites you to make a video on any topic of your choice. I liked his reasoning for this and appreciate his education on how to prevent our content from being stolen and get credit as due.
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party is hosted by Deborah Melkin Data Platform MVP, WIT co-lead and WITspiration founder. Deb s invitation is to blog about mentoring and sponsorship. What does mentoring and sponsorship mean to you? What value do you see in mentoring and sponsoring? I ve had many mentors through my tech journey. To me, Continue reading "T-SQL Tuesday #184 Mentoring and…
I attended the PASS Data Community Summit held in Seattle in person this year after a long gap of 4 years and after RedGate software took over running the summit. The place I work at had stopped paying for in-person training making it an expensive decision to attend if I wanted to. I had Continue reading "PASS Summit 2024 A new experience"
I was privileged to host yet another T-SQL Tuesday, for the month of August, 2024. My topic was on Managing database code. I was worried about getting responses, given that most of the community is no longer on X/Twitter and my invite didn t seem to get much attention. I was wrong. People seem to keep Continue reading "T-SQL Tuesday 177 roundup: Managing database code"