Kaizen, or continuous improvement, requires moving beyond your comfort zone and continuously pushing yourself onwards. Although the momentum of this initiative is often difficult to sustain, this simple training method has helped me in so many ways. I’ve used it to prepare for triathlons and I have also been using it with great success in my professional life. Continuous improvement as a Data Engineer requires being open to new ideas, accepting new challenges, and exploring new prospects.

In the latest video I show how to terminate distributed stalled Sql Server transactions with TCPView that is part of Sysinternals created by Mark Russinovich: Thanks for watching.

Sometimes intersection of two simple ideas can make me look out of the window and gasp. Extreme cases lead to Kotov syndrome. When I was working as full time production DBA there were few moments when my ‘I know - I know’ (which is third and final level of understanding matter) became ‘I think I know’ (second stage, just above ‘black box’) because of particular combination of simple ideas. It didn’t happen often and maybe that’s why these situations are hard to forget: