One of the most significant and hardest challenges we face as data professionals (or generally anyone in IT) is how to keep up with learning. Most of us are good with ambitious goals – ‘I want to do data science’, ‘I want to learn Linux for SQL’, ‘I want to be an AI expert’..this and… Continue reading Pathways to Progress
Last month I was fortunate to have my first ever article published on Simple-Talk, among the best quality website for sql server articles ever. During the process of writing this article I ran into several errors related to temporal tables that I have not seen before. Some of these are documented by Microsoft, some are… Continue reading Temporal tables – list of errors with reasons
Its really hard to believe that its been 20 years since the start of the PASS organization – the volunteer run database education group that I am proud to be associated with. My association runs to 18 of those 20 years, and 16 of those have been with attending the PASS Summit. Sadly, I do… Continue reading PASS turns 20
I cannot write this without stating some history. I have been part of PASS community since 1999. That is 21 years now. One of my favorite sub groups of PASS is WIT. 20 years ago WIT was restricted to one afternoon lunch session at the yearly summit. Majority panelists were white women. The discussions were… Continue reading WIT Panel for Women’s History Month
This will be my last post for the year. In this am going to look back on goals I set for myself over past two years, how well I’ve done, and what I plan to do in the year ahead. The idea of epic life quest was started (in community) by Steve Jones and Brent… Continue reading Epic Life Quest – looking back
I am the proud host of TSQL Tuesday for the month of November 2018. My call to post entries is here . I wanted to know from community on what are the non sql server technologies they are dabbling in, to keep up with the rapidly changing data world. This is my own humble contribution to… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday 108 – Learning R
I am proud and fortunate to be sitting beside stars of the community at the blogging table this year. I will be updating this post with details of the keynote as we go along here…a chilly fall morning in Seattle and day #1 of the PASS Summit. Some highlights of typical day #1 keynotes are… Continue reading PASS Summit 2018 – Day 1 – 11/7/2018
