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I was so sad to see that my last post was January 12th, but I do have to give myself a break. I’ve been busy with life and presentations. My oldest daughter is off to college this fall, but before she decided to go to Chicago or Boston, I wanted her to experience the cold. Especially since we live in Southern California. I tied our college visitation trip with a SQL Saturday in Chicago, which…

Year in Review for 2015 and Future Goals for 2016 #SQLFamily #SQLServer

This has been another spectacular year in the SQL world. Unfortunately, I can’t find my list of goals, so I’ll have to wing it. I can say, that I have had some unexpected surprises this year.   Level up! I have two favorite activities in the SQL world. One of which is speaking. This year I presented 14 times to over 1300 people. I spoke at two conferences, one of which was my second year at PASS…

T-SQL Tuesday #72 Summary–Data Modeling Gone Wrong #TSQL2sday #SQLServer #SQLNewBlogger

This month marks the 72nd T-SQL Tuesday.  Adam Machanic’s (b|t) started the T-SQL Tuesday blog party in December of 2009. Each month an invitation is sent out on the first Tuesday of the month, inviting bloggers to participate in a common topic. On the second Tuesday of the month all the bloggers post their contribution to the event for everyone to read. The host sums up all the participant’s…

SELECT Thankfulness FROM Person.Person #SQLFamily cc/ @SQLBob

Hi. I’m with Bob

I love how blog posts can cascade into each other. I follow Chris Yates’ (b|t) blog. He wrote a post that started with Bob Pusateri (b|t). And here I am joining the blog party. Hopefully you too will join the blog party and write about something you are thankful for.

I’m thankful for…

I’m thankful for a lot and not appreciative of enough. One of the non-SQL things that I’ve…

Summit 2014 Experience Or My Week With the Aussies #Summit14 #SQLPass #SQLFamily #SQLAussieFamily

Summit may officially only have three days…five days if you count the two pre-con days, but my “Summit 2014 Experience ” this year was two weeks long. How can that be? Well, I hung out with my favorite Aussies.

(I will apologize right here. This is a looong post. I created a timeline for those that want the short version.)

#SQLAussieFamily comes to visit

Some of you may know that I’m really close…

T-SQL Tuesday #57 - SQL Family to the Rescue of a Local Community #tsql2sday #bigpasscommunity #SQLPass #SQLServer

My good friend Jeffrey Verheul(b|t) is hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party. The party was started by Adam Machanic (b|t) in December of 2009. This month’s invitation is on the topic of SQL Family and Community.

I was very happy to see this topic this month since I just had an amazing SQL Family kind of day a week ago and this is the perfect venue to share it.

The Community

The beginning…

T-SQL Tuesday #51–Don’t Crap Out While Betting On Table Functions #tsql2sday #sqlpass #sqlserver