Category Archives: The Community

Meme Monday: What #sqlfamily Means To Me

I have a lot of titles in my family.  I am a daughter, granddaughter, cousin, sister, wife, aunt and mom.  The roles that go along with the titles are different in each family.  Sure, there are many similarities, but every family has dysfunction (which is why you get some sons and daughters who do a…

Ready for Training: The Peeps

Today’s post is the third of five detailing what I’m looking forward to about the SQLskills Performance Tuning event next week.  Now, when I registered for the class initially, I was simply thinking about all the knowledge I would gain. What I didn’t consider were all the people from the SQL Community that I would…

STEM and the Third Culture: A Case for Interdisciplinary Education

Today’s post is courtesy of Claire Willett of softartisans.  You can find Claire’s blog here, or follow her on Twitter ( @softartisans ).  A couple weeks ago Claire posted an interview with my friend Jes Borland ( blog | @grrl_geek ) which sparked an email exchange.  Claire asked if I would participate (of course I…

Session News

It’s after 11 PM, I’m sitting in my hotel room, and this is pretty much the expression I’ve had all afternoon: See, emails about PASS Summit sessions went out this afternoon and I was thrilled to learn that two sessions I submitted have been accepted. Woohoo!! I am very honored and want to thank the…