Originally published December 31, 2015.
A few days ago, my good friend Tim Ford (@sqlagentman) tweeted this:
Thinking about it, yes, in both my writing and my speaking, I’ll often make some kind of “lowest common denominator” assumption about my audience. A few quick examples off the top of my head:
- I don’t need to explain the difference between a seek and a scan.
- Surely nobody needs me to define CTE or tell them what it stands for.
- Everyone knows why
SELECT *is bad.
I plan to take Tim up on his challenge, and hope to post an introductory blog post on the first Wednesday of each month in 2016. I think this will be more realistic for me to achieve than some of these “30 posts in 30 days” series that some of my colleagues have mastered, but it will still be challenging to come up with 12 distinct ideas and present them in an introductory way.
Today, I am taking Madeline to the alumni game at Gillette, and tomorrow Nicole and I will be enjoying the Winter Classic, but after that I’m going to get started. I already have an idea for my first post. Who’s with me?
In any case, Happy New Year, and I hope your 2016 is even better than your 2015.
| Month | Topic |
|---|---|
| January | Common Table Expressions (CTEs) |
| February | The “Runaway” Query |
| March | The Beauty of the Synonym |
| April | Dating Responsibly |
| May | Definitions of SQL Server release acronyms |
| June | An Updated “Kitchen Sink” Example |
| July | DATEFROMPARTS() |
| August | Great Debates : Unicode |
| September | Naming Stored Procedures |
| October | Why I use lower case for data type names (now) |
| November | CAST vs. CONVERT |
| December | Are your backups worthless? |
