Author Archives: toddkleinhans
T-SQL Tuesday #153: Looking Back at PASS 2011 – MVP Authors
This month @kekline is hosting T-SQL Tuesday and is asking the question: Tell us the story of how attending an IT conference or event resulted in an amazing career or life opportunity. The year was 2011 in the fall at … Continue reading
T-SQL Tuesday #147: Access to SQL: My First Upgrade
This month is being hosted by none other than Steve Jones. Thanks Steve! The topic is about Upgrade Strategies. My first database upgrade was about going from Microsoft Access to Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Why? “Because I needed the money.” … Continue reading
T-SQL Tuesday #143: import this
October’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by John Armando McCormack – thanks John! According to his post, we can pick any snippet or consistent goto code we reach for on a regular basis. For a while now, I have been … Continue reading
T-SQL Tuesday #141: Checking Out of Reality Without Harm
TJay Belt topic for this month’s is Work/Life Balance and he asks a series of questions. I am going to go with, “What are tips or tricks can you share to help others?” The most widely used virtual reality headset … Continue reading
T-SQL Tuesday #138: Only the Plugged-in Survive
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic is: Managing Technology Changes hosted by my brother from another mother, Andy Leonard. Thanks Andy! Premise “How Do You Respond When Technology Changes Under You?” As I like to say, I’ve been using SQL Server … Continue reading
T-SQL Tuesday #137: The Best of Both Worlds – RAPIDS and SQL Server
During Lent 2021, I stepped away from writing and social media. Winter is over and I’m looking forward to a lot of writing in the months ahead. This month’s T-SQL topic by Steve Jones is on using Jupyter Notebooks. I … Continue reading
T-SQL Tuesday #134: Stopping to Breathe Again and Talking Avatars
The first post of 2021 for T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by James McGillivray and his updated post on the subject of taking a break can be found here. Thanks James! Sadly one of the members of the #SQLFamily has … Continue reading
The 2020 Fall Unreal Engine Learning Challenge – Lessons Learned
Introduction I have been into Unreal Engine as a hobby for a while, and I’m not a game developer by trade or by education. When learn.unrealengine.com came out, I was excited to take courses. On November 18, 2020, they announced … Continue reading
T-SQL Tuesday #133: What (Else) Have You Learned from Presenting?
For the T-SQL Tuesday topic this month, Lisa Bohm asks, “This month, I’d like those of you who have presented, or written a presentation, to share something technical THAT DID NOT RELATE to the topic of the presentation, that you’ve … Continue reading
PASS Has Passed And Is Now PASS
Within the last 72 hours as of this post (afternoon of 08Dec20), there have been three board members step down (read resigned) from the organization known as PASS. This is heartbreaking to myself and others as PASS has helped not … Continue reading
Todd Kleinhans 