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January 20, 2012 • Categories: Community, PASS • by

Everybody else is doing it and I’ve never been shy to share my thoughts on the organization I enjoy being a part of (PASS is not the SQL Community, What Should PASS be and Do?, If Pass Closed its Doors…) And my motive is typically a constructive one. I actually really am PASSionate about PASS. [...]

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2011 – A Look Back Professionally

January 2, 2012 • Categories: Community, metablogging, Personal • by

2011 was a year of changes for me professionally. It was a good year, I definitely didn’t do as many blog posts as I should have, though. Like I’ve talked about before in my sappy 2010 year end wrap up, sometimes you forget where you’re going if you don’t take a look back at where [...]

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All I Want For Christmas Is…

December 5, 2011 • Categories: Pet Peeve, SQL Server • by

I’m not going to let another #mememonday pass without a post – one thought came to mind. The theme this month is – What gift do you want Microsoft to leave under the tree this year?
I don’t want much. Bill Gates is already taking care of the world, so no beauty pageant wish there. As [...]

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A Global Crisis – With a Solution?

December 1, 2011 • Categories: Community • by

Do me a favor. Count to 45. I’ll wait…
 
 
… Ok, you can put your socks back on – there won’t be any more counting. According to most of the studies on world health, somewhere around 3 kids under the age of five just died in the time it took you to count because they didn’t [...]

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I’m Thankful For: Grace

November 25, 2011 • Categories: Bible, Personal, Thanksgiving • by

I’m a broken person. I fall short of God’s Holy standard on a daily basis and that’s the definition of sin. I make mistakes. Like Paul described in Romans 7, I often find myself doing the thing I don’t want to do and not doing the thing I want to do. That’s why I’m ending [...]

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I’m Thankful For: A Vibrant Technology Community

November 24, 2011 • Categories: Community, MVP, PASS, Syndicate, Thanksgiving • by

I’m a SQL Server Blogger – how could a week of Thanksgiving posts go by without at least one about this thing that is the SQL Server Community? To recap – I’m doing a series of posts this week on things I’m thankful for – one each weekday. This has looked like:

Perspective – Why looking [...]

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I’m Thankful For: Self Employment

November 23, 2011 • Categories: Life Lessons, Personal, Professional Development, Syndicate, Thanksgiving • by

This is Thanksgiving week here in the US. This week, I am going to try and share a post each day about something I’m thankful for. So far I’ve shared how I’m thankful for:
Perspective – Why looking back at past challenges can make current ones seem, well, not that big.
Relationships – I am where I [...]

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