I was talking with a couple of excellent SQL people* recently, and we were bemoaning the difficulties and disciplines of blogging. This is what speakers do after a successful SQL event, by the way. I mentioned that I’d recently joined a writing group to help with my nonprofessional writing motivation, and how great the group was. When suddenly! I […]
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SQL work-vacation, T-2 days (#Workation #PASSSummit)
We are at PASS Summit 2018 in Seattle, and I will write a bit about each day I’m here, just because it might be useful. Or, in a year or two, nostalgic. Or just to have something like letters from camp: “Hi there, internet friends, today at camp it rained some more, and I talked to 30 new friends, and I got a squishy stress ball from the vendor in the next booth…”
Goodbye, SQL Soldier
We lost Robert L Davis this week, unexpectedly. I’m far too short on words today, so I’m going to borrow from Kendra Little: Robert was that rare funny person who made jokes without malice. He had a super quick wit, and he could make a sharp joke about politics, but he was a very kind […]