Douglas Laudenschlager
Retired
Palm Springs, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarDouglas Laudenschlager is a retired technical writer and former Microsoft programmer-writer with over a decade of hands-on experience in technical documentation, SQL Server/SSIS, Excel automation, and C# development. Based in Palm Springs, he pairs deep developer-support and content-publishing expertise with practical database engineering—contributing cleanup and data-sync scripts to Microsoft's widely used sql-server-samples repository. A cancer survivor and devoted family man, he brings disciplined attention to clarity and accuracy born from years translating complex engineering details into usable guidance. Outside of work he’s an avid traveler and history enthusiast who enjoys Austrian culture, trains, cooking and craft breads and beers—interests that reflect his methodical, detail-oriented approach to problems.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Italian, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
database-management10
userscripts10
script10
sql10
database-design10
scripting10
azure-automation9
powershell9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/sql-server-samples
May 2017 - Nov 2018
Azure Data SQL Samples - Official Microsoft GitHub Repository containing code samples for SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, and Azure SQL Edge
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:11 commits, 10 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily contributed to the repository by adding and modifying SQL scripts. Their work focused on data sync operations and included the creation of scripts for cleaning up data sync objects, specifically stored procedures, tables, triggers, and user-defined types. They also fixed SQL syntax and cleaned up comments in the existing scripts, ensuring the code's clarity and efficiency. Finally, they integrated the scripts to work with data synchronization and related features, demonstrating a focus on database management and SQL scripting.
azure-synapsesqlserversql-serversqledge
douglaslMS/sql-server-samples
May 2017 - Nov 2018
Official Microsoft GitHub Repository containing code samples for SQL Server
Contributions:26 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 5 months
sqlserversql-serversqlmicrosoft
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