My Toolbox - AI
I trusted AI to redesign this blog, be my personal assistant, and organize my life. But I won't let it near a production database. Here's why that's not a contradiction - and what I learned about trust along the way.
Productivity
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My Toolbox - SSMS
My SSMS setup guide: layout tweaks, essential Options settings, hotkeys I can't live without, and miscellaneous tips for a better SQL Server Management Studio experience.
My Toolbox - Everything
Another productivity tool in my toolbox that I use daily. This time it's about file search. Everything will help you find... well, everything.
My Toolbox - Greenshot
Print Screen and Paint never cut it for me. Greenshot did: precise region capture, a real annotation editor, obfuscation, and one-key sharing. Here's the tour.
Coding Standards (T-SQL Tuesday #151)
My T-SQL Tuesday #151 entry: the SQL habits I swear by, and the ones I'd ban from every codebase if I could.
Why my way of writing SQL is superior
Semicolons, leading commas, single-letter aliases. Here is the SQL style everyone loves to argue about, and the practical reasons I refuse to budge.
Don't Be Lazy
Sometimes the fastest help is the kind you find yourself. A rundown of the lazy question patterns I keep seeing in SQL help channels.
Short Code Examples (T-SQL Tuesday #143)
This month's T-SQL Tuesday invitation is from John McCormack. I'm sharing a few handy snippets I use on a regular basis - a time loop, impersonation testing, database recreation, and some RegEx for SSMS Find & Replace.