Louis Davidson in Editorials Simple Talks at the PASS Summit This year at Simple Talk has been exciting, after a slow start with me being more or less out for... 23 September 2024 4 min read
Grant Fritchey in Blogs What Did AI Ever Do for Me? Let me start with a simple confession, and I hope it’s not too shocking for anyone; I’m old. When I... 09 September 2024 3 min read
Louis Davidson in Blogs Why don’t you work like this? No matter how much I love social media, there are some annoying patterns that work better than most sincere ones.... 04 September 2024 5 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs The Big IT Outage: Where are we going? As you all know about, just a few weeks ago we had the big CrowdStrike global IT outage. Some lucky... 28 August 2024 5 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials Time to opine in this year’s Redgate’s State of the Database Landscape Survey Every year, Redgate puts out a survey to technology workers around the globe asking a set of straightforward, non-invasive questions... 23 August 2024 2 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials PASS Summit Scholarships? Awesome! This year, PASS is introducing scholarships to support individuals who might not typically have the opportunity to attend the PASS... 15 August 2024 3 min read
Career Simple Talk Editor in Career Amplify your Experience – How to Start Writing and Speaking At PASS Data Community Summit 2023, Tonie Huizer and Tony Davis joined forces to deliver a one-hour session all about... 31 July 2024 6 min read
Steve Jones in Editorials 5 Ways to Spend Your 2024 Learning and Development Budget in the US Not many data professionals get a personal Learning and Development (L&D) budget that we can use at our discretion. This... 30 July 2024 7 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials Fall is around the corner, and hence the PASS Data Community Summit, too Welcome to the dog days of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. It is hot, so if you are like me... 29 July 2024 5 min read
Marcella McKeown in Editorials Insights from Redgate’s PASS Senior Program Manager In today’s editorial, guest writer Marcella McKeown shares some insights from her tenure from working on the program of PASS... 27 July 2024 5 min read
Louis Davidson in Opinion T-SQL Tuesday #176 Roundup of advice There was a lot of great advice, and I really wonder how much of this I would have listened to... 16 July 2024 6 min read
Louis Davidson in Blogs T-SQL Tuesday #176: One piece of advice you wish Past You had After so many years, here in July 2024, I am finally hosting T-SQL Tuesday. The challenge One of the things... 02 July 2024 3 min read
Louis Davidson in Blogs The Theme of the Day: Theme Recently, I was attending a tech conference, and a topic caught my ear at the speaker dinner. Sam Shaw, who... 01 July 2024 5 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs To Specialize or Generalize, That is My Question One of the big bits of advice that people like to give in the technology community is career advice. Do... 12 June 2024 3 min read
Phil Factor in Editorials Technology For Humanity There was a time, when I was in a team that was designing an important IT system for a multinational... 01 May 2024 3 min read
Editorials Louis Davidson in Editorials Giving Feedback on Microsoft Data Platform Tools As a data professional, there is a set of tools that you use on pretty much a daily basis. Before... 08 April 2024 3 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Lies you should believe: There are no dumb ideas When I was a brainstorming ideas for a series of posts, it took me back to a brainstorming session we... 22 March 2024 3 min read
Blogs Sheila Romans in Blogs The Benefits of Volunteering at SQL Saturdays How it all started After attending PASS Summit in 2022 my husband set a goal to speak at as many... 14 March 2024 5 min read
Opinion Pieces Simple Talk Editor in Opinion Pieces Writing your 2024 PASS Data Community Summit Submission It is time again for the PASS Data Community Summit Call For Speakers. Some of you are very ready. You... 05 March 2024 10 min read
Career Jason Romans in Career The Value of Conference Speaking Editor note: The call for speakers is open at on the Pass Data Community Summit 2024 Site, so join Jason... 04 March 2024 9 min read
