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Five Places to Document Before You Win the Lottery
When a project starts to go sideways and you’re cursing Naive Past You who signed off on the “aggressive” time estimates as you feed quarters into the vending machine in hopes that powdered donuts and...
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Cage Match I: Anti-Joins
Before we get started on the Cage Match, a quick shout-out to my blogging partner and fellow Datachix, Julie Smith (Blog | Twitter). She’ll be speaking at SQL Rally (May 11-13). I’ve seen her slides,...
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On Epiphanies, Friends, and Career Direction
On Monday, May 25, I woke up to a realization. I don’t like my job! I’d like to say it was startling or sudden, but that’s just not true. But the epiphany wasn’t that I was unhappy doing the work I...
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A Call to Arms: Ladies, I’m Looking at You!
I’m helping to organize SQL Saturday #89 in Atlanta. This morning, I looked to see where we were with speakers and submissions. Running through the list, I saw we had 32 speakers. Awesome....
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SQL University – Conceptual Modeling
Welcome to SQL University’s Fall 2011 Semester week of Data Modeling. I’m thrilled to be a part of this great endeavor again, and a giant thank you to the man behind the project, Jorge Segarra...
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SQL University – Entity-Relationship Modeling (Part I)
Hey there! Welcome back! Or just Welcome, whichever applies. This week at SQL University (organized by SQLChicken himself, Jorge Segarra) we’re discussing data modeling. On Monday, we talked...
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#Meme15 – Why do you blog?
I have a confession to make… Blogging is hard. Staring at a blank page, cursor blinking in that impatient, foot-tapping way, crappy blog ideas spewing from my desperate mind like oil at Spindletop...
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Great way to begin 2013! (Hint: it involves a TLA)
Quick, happy announcement… My fellow Datachix, Julie Smith, has received the SQL Server MVP award for 2013! Also, I’ve been renewed as a SQL Server MVP for 2013. What does this mean? Yeah… 100% of...
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Discovery… Not Just for Explorers
In the scramble to get hands on keyboards in a development shop, one of the most important phases of development often gets short shrift. That phase is discovery. I was lucky enough to spend a few...
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On Blogs – Think like a Journalist
Today, I was reading a blog post. The article was published by a group that I would consider reliable and reputable. It was on a topic that I have passing familiarity with, and would like to be...
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