This months invitation for T-SQL tuesday came from Reitse Eskens (B | L | T). The original invite can be found here. I know Reitse quite well. He lives in the same in country, I visited one of his user groups, congratulated him on getting an MVP award, volunteerd together with him on two activities this year. I hope to continue this also this (2024) year. His invite Reitse’s question to the SQL Family is to share what we have learned from failed projects.

This months invitation for T-SQL tuesday came from Kay Sauter (B | L | T) . The original invite can be found here. Kay knows a lot of all data related stuff. So he wondered to whom I would be gratefull about last year. Despite the knowledge on Data, his invitation is about who we should thank… Wow.. That is a lot, only looking back one year… Last year My year is a turbulent year.

This months invitation for T-SQL tuesday came from Gethyn Ellis (B | L | T) . Here original request is explained here. Gethyn made a flying start with this request. He was one week late. But, Steve Jones (@wayoutwest and Steve Jones | LinkedIn) has given him the opportunity to continue the Journey. The full request of what Gethyn wants to know from us is: What is the best piece of Career Advice you have ever received as a data professional?

This months invitation for T-SQL tuesday came from Deepthi Goguri (B | L | T) . Here original request is explained here. The invite can be found here. Deepthi surprised me with hosting this TSQL tuesday. It is well deserved that she is hosting this months edition. I know here since a few years when I was helping on Dataweekender. Sometimes Deepthi is a bit naughty. She does not ask for one thing, but for two.

This months invitation for T-SQL tuesday came from Glenn Berry (B | L | T) . His original request is explained here. ](https://glennsqlperformance.com/2020/05/05/t-sql-tuesday-126-foldinghome/) Glenn’s invite asks us to what we have done in response to Covid-19. I first needed to think very deep about that question… What I have done in response to Covid-19? Or what Covid-19 has done to me? While the last question was not part of Glenn’s question, I just wanted to answer that also.

Thanks Kevin Chant (b|t) for hosting this Tsql Tuesday. You make it hard for me to answer this one. Especially since it is my first official post for a TSQL Tuesday. As a Database Infrastructural engineer there are some behaviors which you want to change. I am focused on security and ease of working I do not have many fantasies on SQL Server, but some improvements on the normal components would be nice to have.