I can guarantee you this. Because no one brags about their failures. The year was 1999. A small business owner approached a young guy – fresh out of university with no database nor computer programming background – to write a software for their retail and consumer goods business. The business owner wanted a software that can be […]
(Fight by Jorge Gonzales) The first and best victory is to conquer self. – Plato – One week into 2026 and we’re all still hyped up about our New Year’s resolutions. I previously wrote about what New Year’s resolutions are all about and since then have been reviewing keyword searches that have led to my […]
The Christmas holidays are usually time for me to do more reading, studying and reflection. It’s also when things slow down a bit because a lot of people go on vacations (except when I get special requests to work on year-end projects). I use this time to reflect on what I have done in the previous year […]
So, why haven’t you pursued that project yet? At the back of your mind, you knew you wanted to Write that blog post or article Submit a presentation abstract for a SQL Server event Volunteer to design and implement a SQL Server Availability Group solution for a customer Start that business you’ve been thinking about […]
A week before I officially launched my online course How to Build a Personal Lab for Deploying SQL Server on Windows Server Failover Clusters, I asked this question on Twitter. There were various responses, ranging from “very important” to “it helped my career“. While reading one of the responses, I realized that I actually asked the wrong question. […]