Louis Davidson in Editorials Love Your Conference Sponsors You probably already realize this, but I work for a company that sponsors conferences. As the editor of Simple Talk,... 04 December 2024 4 min read
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
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
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 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 Louis Davidson in Blogs Planning, the First Step To Failure You probably have heard the saying “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail”. I get the sentiment here,... 09 February 2024 4 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Working on Technology Off the Clock I have always spent time learning relational databases on my own, non-work time. As the years have passed, I have... 16 January 2024 3 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Being A Bit Less Comfortable in 2024 I hate coming up with ideas for editorials, but my last editorial of the year gives me a very simple... 03 January 2024 3 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs What Counts For a DBA: Duty It has been a long month. We had the PASS Data Community Summit just a month ago, and I came... 08 December 2023 3 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Autonomous Databases? I was talking to some people today about the concept of Autonomous Databases. The idea is that the database platform... 15 November 2023 3 min read
Editorials Jason Romans in Editorials Pike’s Market to Pikes Peak: The PASS Summit is Worth the Journey Recently I spoke at SQL Saturday Denver. The day after the conference we went to visit Pikes Peak Mountain. You... 26 October 2023 9 min read
