I'm reasonably certain that I have a venn diagram of people who follow me on Twitter and people who read my blog: some do one or the other, some do both. So it behooves me from time to time to show Twitter to blog readers, and vice versa. It helps you too, to meet some of the coolest folk in the industry, and see what they're up to.
Today I'm inspired to introduce you to one of my Twitter Tweeps, Chicago native Wendy Pastrick (Wendy_Dance on Twitter). I met Wendy at SQL PASS 2009 this past November – my clearest memory is of her onstage moderating the Women in Technology Luncheon panel – but most of my interaction with her has been via Twitter. Today, in face, she made me smile: "my plan today: shut up. document document document. Do what I'm told. Wait for the fallout. Pull out my documentation." Sounds familiar.
Wendy started her DBA career like many of us do – the DBA quit, and her manager volunteered her as the replacement. Wendy is a volunteer on the PASS Ambassador Team – which means she gets to wear the super flattering red vest at PASS events – and a Faculty Member at Jorge Segarra's SQL University. Her bio tells us that she's a dance instructor (a careful internet search will reveal that the dance is not ballet). I'm thinking SQLPASS 2010 dance classes, but I haven't mentioned it to her yet…I'm still giggling over the mental image of a large number of middleaged male SQL dbas learning to belly dance…
I wanted to keep this brief, so let's finish things off with a flourish of links:
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Wendy's blog, Live, the Universe, and SQL Server
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IGNITE – Inspiring Girls Now in Technology Evolution (Wendy's a Professionl Member)
- And Wendy's SQL 'rap' Entry, with "All the Single Ladies" rewritten as "All the SQL Ladies"…"Select * in the code, .net won't load / get it through to development team…"
Respec', Wendy, and thanks for all that you do…
-Jennifer McCown
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