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Tag: History

Back to the future

Posted on 9 January 20197 January 2019 by randolph

It’s January 2019 as I write this. I realized that I started on my journey with SQL Server in 1998, and I wanted to look at what’s changed through the lens of my career path. 1998 is the year I qualified as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on the Windows NT 4.0 track. But a
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The SQL Server Family

Posted on 2 November 201522 April 2021 by randolph

(This is a non-technical post, and is part of the #SQLNewBlogger Challenge.) This year was my second PASS Summit, and my favourite one so far. Many of the data professionals in attendance with whom I spoke, feel the same way. Aside from some spectacular keynote moments, not to mention the sessions I attended, I was
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Loyalty can be bought

Posted on 1 May 201527 April 2015 by randolph

This piece was originally written some years ago, and never published. It is a report and analysis of the largest project I had worked on as a developer / DBA up to that point in my career. I have published it here for any of you who are interested. […]

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Randolph West

Randolph West (they/them) is a Senior Technical Writer at Microsoft on the Database Docs team. When not writing about technology, you can see them acting on the stage and screen, or doing voices for independent video games. Available for mentoring, talks on SQL Server and technology in general, you can connect with Randolph on Twitter. Buy their books on Amazon.

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