Archive | December, 2010

I Grew Up Before My Very Eyes

December 29, 2010 • Categories: Personal • by

I am stealing this topic from two sources. One is a tweet I just saw from Jose Chinchilla (@SQLJoe on twitter) where he announced “Blog post coming soon: “2000-2010 a Decade in Retrospect” Milestones in my personal life and career: A wife, 2 daughters, #SQL and Twitter.” The other is an idea that Janice Lee [...]

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Where Do I Want To Go?

December 28, 2010 • Categories: Personal • by

My last post was a summary of positive highlights from 2010. I’ve been thinking a lot on where I want to be, how I want to be living and what life is all about. Because of those rambling thoughts, I am going to summarize themes I want to live by. You could call them resolutions [...]

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Where I’ve Been – 2010 Wrap Up

December 27, 2010 • Categories: Community, metablogging, Personal • by

This was a good year in a lot of ways both personally, professionally and with spiritual growth. I still have far to go and plenty of goals to whip together for 2011 but a quick rundown of where I’ve been. These thoughts are my own, and don’t speak for my employer. the next post will [...]

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Prepare For the Disaster Before The Disaster

December 27, 2010 • Categories: Best Practices, DBA, Life Lessons, Professional Development, Syndicate • by

Kind of like some previous common sense posts inspired by mundane tasks (Day Job Tips learned from the garden, a dump trip, etc.), I was hit with another blog thought today. This goes well with my post – Plan To Fail or Don’t Expect To Succeed.
Updated: Added a sound piece of advice in the bullet [...]

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On The 11th Day of SQL

December 23, 2010 • Categories: Community, Syndicate • by

What’s This?
Brent Ozar had another good Idea (I lost track of how many he’s had). This time it is to take the folks who attended the first free-con (his guinea pigs) and ask us what posts we enjoyed in 2010 from folks who weren’t at this first free-con gathering. We’d wrap up 12 of them [...]

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Merry Christmas 2010

December 22, 2010 • Categories: Bible, Personal • by

I wrote a longer post for last Christmas. I shared some Bible verses that are usually on my heart and in messages around that time of year. Rather than do a replica, let me direct you to what I wrote last Christmas in my post, “For Unto Us a Child Is Born”
That post rings true [...]

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What Should PASS Be and Do?

December 19, 2010 • Categories: Community, PASS 2010 • by

Alright. So my last post (PASS Is Not The SQL Community) generated some interesting feedback so far and it was posted later on a Friday. I am sure there will be some more generated. In the meantime I wanted to put up a quick post with a disclaimer and something more constructive.
Disclaimer
I think it was [...]

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