June 2012

From Hairdresser to DBA – How to start a career in IT

30 June 2012

I left school more years ago than I care to count with minimal qualifications and more or less fell into a career in hairdressing.  I loved what I did for most of my time in that career but by 1999 had achieved everything I wanted to within that industry.  I decided it was time for [...]

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T-SQL Tuesday #031 – Logging

12 June 2012

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Aaron Nelson (blog | twitter) with a theme of “logging”.  Although Aaron’s definition of this topic is deliberately broad, I thought I would go with a more typical definition and talk about the approach I use for logging the actions of large multi-step stored procedures.

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