First off, apologies to everyone who who was following the 31 days of dbatools Backup and Restores, I will finish it off! Just need to get back into a bit more of a stable routine so I’ve got time to finish it off.

Like everyone else my life has had a big change with the current COVID lockdown in the UK. I’m pretty lucky that I can work from home and that my employer wants us to keep working so no risk of redundancy or furloughing (yet 🤞)

Not having a proper home office made the first couple of weeks quite painful, as long days at the kitchen table weren’t kind on my back. But with some luck on eBay, I’ve now got myself somewhere more ergonomic to work.

Getting used to this new way of working, and also having to pick up some new skills (today I’ve been debugging a JS app) has meant working on my setup, planning skills and the software I have available to me. So there’s going to be some posts on those topics coming up over the next couple of weeks as they’re easier to fit in around my current schedules.

Hope everyone else is doing well in lock down, and look forward to when we can start getting back to meeting up at Data Platform events.