T-SQL - The Easier Way

Battle-Tested T-SQL Patterns: Real SQL Server Solutions Learned in Production

Over the years of working hands-on as a database developer and DBA, I’ve run into more production surprises than any single course or certification ever prepared me for — queries that mysteriously slow down for no visible reason, audit requirements that show up after a schema’s already frozen, reports that quietly regress the week after […]

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Building a Custom Mail Organizer Agent in HCL Notes

From Tools -> Rules to One Click: Building a Custom Mail Organizer Agent in HCL Notes

  The Problem: Drowning in My Own Automation As an IT Pro, I run a lot of automation. Scheduled agents, background jobs, sync processes — code I’ve written over the years that quietly does its job across various databases. Almost all of it has one habit in common: when something happens (good or bad), it […]

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Automating SQL Server Health Checks with PowerShell

Automating SQL Server Health Checks with PowerShell (Invoke-Sqlcmd Walkthrough)

 If you’re a DBA or sysadmin managing more than one or two SQL Server instances, you already know the drill: log in, run the same handful of queries, eyeball the results, move to the next server. Do that every morning for a few years and it stops being “quick” — it’s just quiet, repetitive risk. […]

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HCLDomino2026

HCL Domino IQ with RAG: Complete Setup Guide

If you’ve been running HCL Notes and Domino for any length of time, you already know the platform has a habit of quietly sitting on years — sometimes decades — of company knowledge. Support tickets, policy documents, contracts, project notes, client history. It’s all in there. The problem has always been finding the right piece […]

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