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Welcome to TSQL Tuesday 149! The monthly blogging party where we are given a topic to write a post around.
This month Camila Henrique (blog) asked us about the advice we would give our younger selves.
It’s not that I’m smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer…mainly cause I’ve caused them.
Albert Einstein, probably
Nobody likes a show-off
Really? There’s no need for a stored procedure because you can write out the syntax to update a business order by memory? Wow, that’s great. </sarcasm>
Are you expecting everyone new to learn the code as well?
How useful is that going to be when you leave?
“Run this procedure and pass in the business order id” versus “So, what you gotta do here is join these tables based on these ids but only when the square root of -1 isn’t i.“
Which do you think is the better option, Einstein?
Also, do you realise how much time you are wasting by manually typing out all the T-SQL code each and every time?!
Simple advice here; do not turn down a good idea because you think you don’t need it. You’re not half as smart as you think you are, and you’re twice as dumb as you feel.
Pride and Prejudice
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. Whatever you do, go away!
My sister, I guess
This is another instance of not knowing a good thing when it’s staring you in the face! If programming languages could stare, that is.
You’re soon going to be shown PowerShell as a way to automate some work. Yes, it’s version 2, so it will be rough around the edges. Hell, you’re rough around the edges! You’d like people to take a chance on you, so take a chance with it.
It, like you, will improve. However, it’ll improve at a rate and level that you can only hope to achieve.
Thanks to PowerShell, you will meet people that you never would otherwise. You will learn aspects that will improve every facet of your life. Prejudice ruins a lot of things, don’t let it ruin you!
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting. No documentation is a close third though
Buddha, I’m assuming
To tie these up together and link back to a recent post by Ken Fisher (blog | Twitter). There is no such thing as a one-off request.
There is nearly always a request that starts with, “Hey, you know that query you ran for me the last day?”.
Learn to document, learn to automate, and learn to use Source Control, ya git.