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I’m Just Gonna Leave This Here

September 30, 2026

Sometimes my value as a blogger is to make complex topics simple, or to deliver industry news to you, or to entertain you. Sometimes, it's just to keep you posted on things that are happening in the industry.

So with that in mind, at Microsoft FabCon Barcelona this week, there was a partner day for Microsoft partners. From there, Eelco Drost (shout out to the smart & fun folks at MasterMinds) shared a slide:

Career & Community

So, What’s New Lately in My SQL Server Training Classes?

September 28, 2026

On Wednesday, registration opens for the next round of my live training classes, and you can get access to all my live classes & recordings for just $995. So, what's been changing with databases & classes lately?

This year, I rebuilt the classes with a new focus:

[Video] Office Hours Off the Coast of Long Beach

September 24, 2026

A couple times a year, I go away for a week to think about what's working well, what I need to change, where our industry is going, and how I need to react. I usually do it on a cruise because the crappy internet makes it easier to disconnect and reflect, hahaha, and that's where…

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Announcing a New Way to Reinforce Your Resume: My Alumni List.

September 23, 2026

I hope you never have to look for another job.

However, if you do, I wanna give you as much reinforcement as I can. If you're the kind of person who attends my live classes, pays attention, asks questions, and does the lab homework, you deserve to be able to brag about that. You deserve a public record of your work, something you can point to on my site that links directly to your LinkedIn, and a certificate you can put on your LinkedIn.