Another year passed, again in an incredible speed and there is a lot I actually did but never blogged here. In fact, in the last months, I’ve neglected my blog a bit, for many reasons. One reason was that I had some sicknesses during the year and as I don’t like to make them public, only few people of the #sqlfamily actually learned one or more of them. However, I don’t want to look back on those lows, but rather on my happy experiences I’ve had and just to sum them up for a looking back....

Every second Tuesday of a month, there’s a T-SQL-Tuesday. This is a blogging event that everyone can participate. The idea was created by Adam Mechanic, but nowadays, it’s hosted by Steve Jones. For this month, Rie Merritt called for advices for running a user group. I know, I’m a quite late to join this game. But since I was busy for my university just until this week, I was not able to write for the call more timely - apologies....

Looking back So the year 2021 is history. For me, it was a quite eventful year although exactly one year ago, I hoped that the pandemic situation would improve. It kind of did, true. However I hoped it’d be better than it turned out to be. Nevertheless, I hope on January 1st 2023, I’ll have a better lookback to the year 2022 regarding this. In March 2021, I’ve submitted my thesis for CAS Machine Learning (German) at my University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich, HWZ....

This post was originally published on my employers blog first. September marks the end of this summer but we’ve got some exciting news about new events that we’ll be joining this month. This post is giving you an overview over these! We hope you’ve enjoyed your summer break and are ready for the new season for many new events! This September ‘21, I’ll have two very interesting events that I will attend as a speaker, panel member or a moderator apart from organizing Data TGIF this Friday:...

This post was first published for my employer, OneDigit AG, here. dbatools really has the ability to change a DBAs work life. It is a free, very powerful and feature rich open source PowerShell module that offers you 550+ commands that allows you to take backups, restore them or just do a lot in SQL Server administration that you would need SSMS and some work for. With dbatools, you can do many tasks more and that with just a few lines of code....