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Being convincing
Read more: Being convincingI struggled to find a nice term for this blog (partially because I brought home a sinus infection from one of my recent vacation trips), but also because I didn’t want it to be overly insulting. Well, other than myself who knows that you have to say more than a short sentence that doesn’t so…
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Do you disconnect on vacation?
Read more: Do you disconnect on vacation?First, let me set the level. I think most everyone disconnects to some extent when they take vacation/leave of some sort. Otherwise it isn’t leave. So you have said “I won’t be at work on some day and your goal is to not be tied down. Next, for sake of argument, I am going to…
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An interesting concept: Splitting queries with OR for performance
Read more: An interesting concept: Splitting queries with OR for performanceIn a recent LinkedIn post, a poster had a novel idea. Say you have a query that has an OR condition. Usually the OR condition in question are related concepts (like this UserId or another one), but sometimes they are quite distinct (like ProductCost is in a range, and ProductColor is in a list of…
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The myth and the truth of filtering early
Read more: The myth and the truth of filtering earlyAn interesting phenomena has been occurring in LinkedIn that I really find interesting. It is the very repeated half truth. It is a concept that is true enough in some ways, but also wrong enough to cause confusion in people who are just learning. Transferring my primary social media use to LinkedIn has been a…
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Theory and Practice
Read more: Theory and PracticeI read this quote somewhere recently, though I cannot find it on the internet anymore. But I love this: The gap between theory and practice is not as wide in theory as it is in practice [anon]. I have spent a lot of my free time in the past 26 years writing/speaking about the subject…
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The logical lifecycle of a query
Read more: The logical lifecycle of a queryThere have been a lot of posts on LinkedIn of late about the “logical execution order” of a query that all really miss some really big points. I was corrected myself in some terminology because I mistook the term “processing” to mean the same as “order” in these discussions when I was explaining why logical…
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Scenic City Summit 2026 Roundup
Read more: Scenic City Summit 2026 RoundupThe conference has passed, and what a great couple of days it was. During the lead up to the conference, we had a few minor snafus, like some ticketing platform issues and near the conference, our website would throw up a delightful message: We’re having trouble connecting This was happening about half the time when…
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What exactly does normal mean?
Read more: What exactly does normal mean?A word we use all the time is “normal.” In math it means a line going perpendicular to a line or a plane. Until I was sitting here now, I never really asked “why is a normalized database normal?” If you have ever seen a database that is well designed, you can be assured that…
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Scenic City Summit 2026
Read more: Scenic City Summit 2026It is that time again when we gather in Chattanooga, TN for Scenic City Summit. This is a conference I have spoken at a few times, and have been one of the organizers for the past two years. This conference has a variety of subjects, but like most tech conferences, this year the topic of…
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Raleigh Day of Data 2026 Roundup
Read more: Raleigh Day of Data 2026 RoundupAnother year, another awesome conference put on by Kevin Feasel here on Memorial Day weekend. Kevin joked about not realizing it was Memorial Day when he set the date, and to be honest, I didn’t realize it either. I had asked off for Monday with a pretty detailed plan of why and what my plans…
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Hello,
I’m Louis
I have been at this database thing for a very long time, with no plans to stop.
