As I prepare to speak at SQL Saturday 197 (Omaha Nebraska), I’m listening to Matthew Brimer speak about Database Security & Shrinking Your Attack Surface. It’s an interesting lecture. But...
While writing today’s Writing Prompt Wednesdays post, I was watching Sherlock Holmes. Now that this property is in public domain, everyone wants to write stories for Sherlock, or a Sherlock-like...
SQL Saturday is coming, for reals this time. This morning I received an email with the finalized speakers’ schedule and promptly went into a panic when I realized I was...
Depending on what type of DBA you are, you might find yourself using different database tools, but the most important tool (in my opinion) is SSMS – also known as...
Today we’re taking a page from reality for Writing Prompt Wednesdays. Whether the tax man is Cuthulu’s right hand monster, the United Nations are paying annual taxes to an alien...
Today’s Writing Prompt Wednesday takes an old trope and gives it a new twist. Many of us have heard the whole “Are we there yet?” routine. Not only is it...
The best writing advice ever is the advice that comes from our own writing experiences. Authors, agents, and editors can talk left and right about the best and worst ways...
Today’s Shadowrun Sundays addresses game design. Designing a game from scratch requires a lot of work. There’s world building that needs to be done, threats that need to be created,...
Welcome back to SQL Saturday’s. Today I wanted to discuss a T-SQL trick I frequently use to search for the existence of records. SQL Server has a fun function calls...
My apologies for missing 2 weeks of Writing Prompt Wednesdays. The workload was a little crazy plus I went to a writers retreat with limited internet access. Today’s Writing Prompt...
Brandie Tarvin is an author and tie-in writer and a copy editor. In addition to her original fiction, she has written SQL Server articles, Shadowrun: The Role Playing Game sourcebook material and fiction as well as a piece for Hasbro’s Transformers. She currently lives in Florida with her family and is owned by two cats.
