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#TSQL2sday – Preconceived Notions About Who Is Smart

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For this month’s #TSQL2day, Andy Yun asked folks to share about “something you’ve learned, that subsequently changed your opinion/viewpoint/etc. on something.”

Now, there are technical subjects I could share where I’ve changed my opinion, but in thinking about possible answers I realized all of them start with one thing that has changed: who I thought was “smart”.

I put the word smart in quotes, because it’s a totally subjective and ever-changing opinion. Let me show you what I mean.

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T-SQL Tuesday #131 – Database Analogies

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This post is for the most recent #tsql2sday, a monthly exercise where a topic is proposed by a community member and everyone is invited to post their thoughts on the subject. This month Rob Volk has asked us “how would you explain database concepts to someone who’s not technologically savvy,” or relatedly, “explain databases like I’m five!”

I’m very excited to participate this month, because, as anyone who has seen my “Faster Transactions” presentation recently knows, I love using the analogy of SQL Server transactions as orders in a restaurant.

Let me tell you briefly about the “Le SQL Server” restaurant.

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T-SQL Tuesday #119 – Changing My Mind

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This post is for the most recent #tsql2sday, a monthly exercise where a topic is proposed by a community member and everyone is invited to post their thoughts on the subject. I’ve read many of these but never participated this before, but when I saw that Alex Yates asked about something in our IT career that we changed our mind about I knew instantly this would be the time to jump into this pool.

Pardon me for getting all meta, but the biggest thing in my IT career that I changed my mind about was whether or not I should even HAVE an IT career.

Let me tell you a story.

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