A black & white photo of two martial artists. The author is throwing their partner over their hip while wearing a white gi and black hakama. They have short black hair and black glasses. Their partner has lighter hair and is wearing a white gi as he is upside down and headed for the mat — This developer attempted to use NOLOCK in my data environment.

About josh

I’ve been called a lot of things (but my preferred pronouns are they/them). Starting in 2013 some folks started calling me a DBA. I’ve been the local data user group (Inland Northwest Data Professionals Association) since 2016 and in 2018 I organized our first ever SQL Saturday Spokane. (I mean it wasn’t all organized in 2018 and I had some help but you know what I mean right?).

I’ve been a Friend of Redgate since 2019! I love issues that revolve around data privacy, retention and compliance. I also love a good MLT where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. They’re so perky, I love that.

I have a completely reasonable fear of spiders and used to run the kids' program at my local aikido dojo in the before times.