Speaking at PASS Summit 2025

In less than one month, I will be speaking not once but twice at PASS Data Community Summit 2025.

Thursday, November 20th at 1 PM I will be in the Community Zone to share my experience as a mentor for FIRST Robotics Team 3003, TANX. Hobby Huddles were a new addition to Summit last year. These lightning talk-sized presentation about something the speaker does outside their day job are a lot of fun to check out. But how do I take something I can talk about all afternoon and compress it down to only 10 minutes?

Summer Speaking Summary 2025

In the blink of an eye, summer has passed. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for things to get back to “normal” after 10 weeks of events and travel, personal and professional, starting with high school graduation and finishing with college move-in.

Amidst all that, I had three speaking engagements as mentioned in an earlier post. Three different talks, delivered in very different places - putting it all together was more work than I’d anticipated.

T-SQL Tuesday #186 Invitation - Managing Agent Jobs

T-SQL Tuesday logo
This month, I am hosting T-SQL Tuesday for the very first time. T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party originally created by Adam Machanic in 2009 and currently curated by Steve Jones.

Each month, a new topic is chosen, published on the first Tuesday of the month and the following month, contributors post their own takes. Anyone can participate. Please publish your post by the end of Tuesday, May 13th in your timezone and on your platform of choice, then leave a comment below or tag me on Bluesky, Mastodon, or LinkedIn with a link to your post and I’ll include it in the roundup.

Testing for End of Month in PowerShell

This is one of those blog posts you write so that 2 years later, you can look it up to remind yourself how to do something.

I found myself needing to figure out if “today” was the end of the month in PowerShell. In T-SQL, this is easy, as we have the EOMONTH() function. But PowerShell (the .NET System.DateTime struct) doesn’t have the same thing.

T-SQL Tuesday 185 - Produce a Video!

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Erik Darling (blog) asks us to produce a video

  • You can talk about whatever you want, but it has to be a video
  • Non-video entries will not be televised
  • You don’t have to be on camera
  • You can host the video anywhere you want
  • You must link back to this post so I get a pingback to find your post
  • You must include the T-SQL Tuesday Logo