Now that I’ve been at Redgate as the newest Advocate, along with my engineering duties, let’s talk about the annual event so many of us attend each year in the Microsoft data community- PASS Data Community Summit. My schedule is shaping up to be a busy one and I want to make sure that folks know where I’ll be through the week. SQL Saturday Oregon/SW Washington My week starts the weekend before, where I will be doing the keynote at SQL Saturday Oregon/SW Washington. The keynote will be on “Why Can’t AI Do the Dishes Already?” and will follow a…
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So, this last week I had the opportunity to speak and attend at the SQLbits conference. This was high on my list after attending an Oracle event last year where even attendees and organizers there mentioned that they admired the conference and the way that it was run. I fully admit to running the full gambit of either hyper-aware or completely oblivious and with SQLBits, I’d been a bit of the latter and I wanted to change that. Now I want to preface this post with saying that I refer to this month as “March madness” and that means that…
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It was brought to my ADHD attention, that one of our community members is leaving after she was made to feel unwelcome by some who, (IMHO) have insecurities so deep, that they have nothing else better to do than do harm to others. Correcting others on preferred pronouns or even more challenging, transitioning is something I can’t imagine the difficulty around. I’ve only had the experiences as a parent of a gay son and one gender non-identifying child- the unintentional and intentional cruelty of others was impactful enough. I had more than one occasion of a child returning home, embarrassed…