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Anders Pedersen
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Senior DBA.
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25 years ago today I lost my wife Tab to suicide. Gone but not forgotten. If you are struggling, please talk to someone. Chat with me here (anonymity guaranteed). Seek professional help. Call one of the suicide prevention hotlines.
You are not alone.
Is SentryOne dead? Or at least SQL Sentry product? Their support anymore is more of a hindrance to use the product than help.
January 20, 2026 at 6:43 PM
55 years of flying and had my first rejected take off!
January 1, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Operation Julenisse 2 has started.
December 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Time for some winter reading.
December 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Reposted by Anders Pedersen
BLOG ALERT!

www.arcticdba.se/posts/tooth-...

Sugar went from luxury to ubiquitous poison before we understood what it was doing to us. We're doing the exact same thing with AI, adding it to everything without genuine use cases while it erodes literacy and critical thinking. #AI #Literacy
www.arcticdba.se
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I have no idea what @heidihasting.bsky.social is talking about, but she did great!
#pasadatasummit
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Love living in a small town, it does however make for early flights to get anywhere. OMw to Seattle
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Seeing the crap coverage and quality @f1tv.bsky.social lately, maybe it is a good thing I don't get the pleasure of paying for them next year. (not that I will pay Apple either)
October 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Time to try to get this wheat harvested. #farmcation
September 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Travelling is much more tiring than it used to be. Must be the travelling and not me right?
August 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
LHR is the worst part of a shopping mall, combined with the worst part of an airport.
August 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Time for vacation. 4 weeks in Norway. And they say Americans don't take vacation!!
August 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Coding, at 1:30AM, while listening to BABYMETAL.

I wonder how my code will look like this week. Although I don't think I will top my triple nested cursor from last week (the two inner ones in dynamic SQL).

Making cursors great again, Row By Agonizing Row.
August 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Grats to Hulkenberg, breaking a 239 start no podium finish!

#Formula1
July 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Well that was old school Verstappen. And NOT in a good way.
June 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Gah decided too late to go to Norway this fall to apply to speak at SQL Saturday Oslo and Gothenburg . Maybe I can go just as a participant for once ;)
May 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Watching the Blues Brothers. As a reminder of how nazi's should be handled.
March 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I am for the first time in the 24 years I have been a US citizen embarrassed about my citizenship.
February 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Reposted by Anders Pedersen
The President of the United States took questions in the Oval Office this week as Donald Trump watched silently from the sidelines.

On today's Coffee Klatch, we discuss how Trump 2.0 has morphed into The Musk Show.

https://youtu.be/fkrD22itxbg
The Musk Show | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
The President of the United States took questions in the Oval Office this week as Donald Trump watched silently from the sidelines. On today's Coffee Klatch, we discuss how Trump 2.0 has morphed into The Musk Show.
youtu.be
February 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just about had it with Sentry1. Time to look at alternatives to replace it.
February 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
She flies!!!!
January 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
So... Gearhead finally ditched gas cars and got an EV.

It was dark so no good pictures.
January 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Launch of a new space rocket will be watched.... New Glenn.
January 13, 2025 at 5:43 AM
So this happens when I have been on vacation for over 3 weeks, but it dawned on me that 1/4 of a century ago I sat in the ops center for a major medical operation in the US, watching the clock strike midnight in the 3 times zones we had operation. Last bug fix done with 4 hours to spare.
January 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM