One of my colleagues/friends read my earlier blog post on the future of PASS and said he was not aware that being seen as a minority person was among my reasons for supporting them. In this one I want to explain that a bit more.There is a strongly held belief in the tech community atleast… Continue reading Being seen and why PASS helped
As most people reading this would know…the PASS organization is in a state of crisis now following the decision to go virtual. We are in a place where we are obligated to get very high attendance #s for the virtual summit, or risk going under if not. While on the face of it this seems… Continue reading PASS – Meanderings
This is a summary of potential resources for any tech person who is interested in working from home – temporarily or full time. It came about from a twitter conversation on subject. This is not an attempt to promote any way of working, nor does it mean you need all of these resources to telecommute.… Continue reading Telecommute Resources
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Jess Pomfret. Jess’s theme is ‘Life Hacks to make your day easier’. She talks of some things we do to make life simpler/easier. Two of mine are as below.1 Before I accepted the current gig I am at – I worked several years in telecommuting positions. I found… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday 123: Life Hacks to make your day easier
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Jon Shaulis – the topic is an evergreen one, dealing with Imposter Syndrome. I learned of this word via Mindy Curnett a.k.a @sqlgirl in one of her presentations. I was aware of it in a different way for a long time. Trauma victims know what it is better… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday #122: Being authentic
I attended my 16th PASS Summit this November 6th, 2019 at Seattle. It was a wonderful week of learning and networking. Below are my takeaways for key days. The keynotes by Rohan Kumar from Microsoft on wednesday, and Tarah Wheeler, Cyber Security Expert on Thursday were not ‘among the best’, they were ‘THE BEST’ i’ve… Continue reading PASS Summit 2019 Takeaways
I’ve been at the bloggers table for two years now. I felt honored to be selected this year too. The day has started a bit differently – bloggers were given an overview of what to expect from the board and staff of PASS. It was a very different and great move, in my opinion. It… Continue reading PASS Summit 2019: Day 1 Keynote – my takeaways
In the previous post I explored a query on how to construct a basic family tree with sql graph – including table set up and queries. In this post am going to explain how to query this to get relationships and some clues on DNA/ethnic mix.1 Relationships: We can use the ‘shortest path’ clause to… Continue reading Geneology with SQL Graph – Part II
I have been working a lot of SQL Graph related queries and applications of the graph data concept to the extent possible within SQL Server’s graph capabilities. Genealogy, or querying family trees is an important graph data application. A lot of us may not have work related applications that are genealogy related, necessarily. But conceptually,… Continue reading Geneology with SQL Graph – I
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by my friend across the pond – Alex Yates. Alex has a fantastic topic for us to blog about – he asks us to talk about why we changed our mind, on anything related to our careers. What was our original opinion, why we believed that, and what we… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday: Changing my mind
