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I’ve been enjoying Ben Weissmann (Blog | LinkedIn) & Jess Pomfret’s (Blog | LinkedIn ) weekly program Finding Data Friends for a couple years now, getting to know (by proxy) more people in the data community. Every conversation with Jess & Ben is a delight, and we never seem to have enough time. So when they reached out to me a couple months ago about being on episode #123, I of course jumped at the chance. We talked a little data stuff, but that’s not what the show’s really about. It’s what we do outside work, and one thing everyone has in common - food!

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?

I don’t recall where this came up (probably in SQLSlack), but I had a need to install an older version of dbatools to test something related to loading the dbatools.library library/dependency.

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 is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, John Sterrett (blog) asks us:

What are you doing, or what can we do to encourage younger people to get involved in the SQL community while increasing the number of younger speakers?

It’s been a minute since I’ve gotten out to speak at events, but the second half of 2025 is going to be packed.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday!

Here’s a roundup of the posts.

I’m hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and our topic is Managing SQL Agent Jobs. In this post, we’ll be taking a look at a very handy combination of dbatools functions for looking at agent job schedules & performance.

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.

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.