Feeds I Read Page | Other Feedly Friday Posts

Welcome to my series of posts where I am going to highlight one or two feeds I follow in my Feedly feeds. Technology feeds only, though I keep up with other things like theme park news in there too.

Feedly is an RSS reader that you can use that is free for a very reasonable number of RSS feeds. It is the best way to follow a large number of websites and see what is new.

Today’s entry is a feed that I see as much outside of the feed reader as I do inside it. The writer is the hardest working person I know, and the other well, the other is no slouch either!

Voice Of The DBA

VoiceOfTheDba is Steve Jones’s blog. While Steve shares a name with a famous guitarist some of you who might be into punk rock may know, this Steve Jones is just as well known in the SQL Server community.

Why “one of his blogs”? Steve Jones is a prolific writer and has contributions not only here and on SQL Server Central, which is especially amazing because if you follow his social media, he actually does more than write!

It is an eclectic series of posts, sometimes just being a vocabulary lesson on new words (struggling not to steal that idea!), SQL Server topics, and information about his speaking, travels, and life. If you are the type to get jealous, that last type of posts may make you a bit jealous as will his social media accounts!

• Instagram: @Way0utWest
• X: @Way0utWest
• Note: In both cases, the letter: O is a zero: 0 (which isn’t that obvious in some fonts!)

I really love to see what Steve is going to talk about now (which is pretty much every day unless he isn’t working, then frequency drops a bit, but not to zero!), especially here on his personal blog. Great advice, technical or whatever he has in mind.

Spreading it around?

It may seem that a rather large number of my sources are Redgate owned, and it is true. Simple Talk (which I silently added to my list to start it out), and SQL Server Central (which will be featured several times in the future) are just some of the best places to find lots of independent writing by some great experts.

If you have other places I (and others) should know about, please share in the comments or if you don’t want to log in, email louis@drsql.org and let me know of better places.

I used to follow several Medium feeds, but their RSS feeds recently changed and dropped off Feedly, and I haven’t gotten them back. There was a lot of meh stuff on Medium, but there was also some great stuff too.