{"id":1344,"date":"2018-02-13T21:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T03:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2018-02-13T21:15:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T03:15:29","slug":"tsql2sday-dealers-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/tsql2sday-dealers-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"#TSQL2sday Dealer’s Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt always comes to me as a surprise that it is TSQL Tuesday again. I guess time just slips by so quickly these days. If you haven\u2019t heard about or figured out what this Tuesday stuff is all about drop me a line and I will not only sell you on the concept I will convince you to write your first post for next month and even give you a spot to post it.\u00a0 This month it’s the 99th<\/a>, amazing that a community has been able to manage this for so long.\u00a0 This time AAaron Bertrand [\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 t\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 ] has given us a choice and actually titled it “Dealer’s Choice<\/a>“.\u00a0 I’m more of a 5-card stud kind of\u00a0girl\u00a0but this\u00a0also very amusing. \u00a0Door #1 “hear about something you are passionate about, outside of the SQL Server or tech community” and Door #2 ” have a long laundry list of T-SQL bad habits (there’s a big index here). What’s your favorite one? Which one do you disagree with most vehemently? What bad habits are missing from my list?\u00a0”<\/p>\n

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So what am I passionate about? Nothing. Ok that isn’t really true. But there are no crazy dark seekrits that I’m going to be spilling. I don’t LARP, Karate, or any other thing that might need to be looked up. But there are a couple of things that consume a lot of my time and my heart.<\/p>\n

Food, Family, and Fun<\/strong><\/h2>\n

My definition of Family is a far stretching one and if I call you my friend you are now given notice that I consider you family. But seriously I work hard to create dinner experiences and if you’ve ever been over for dinner I think you understand what I mean. We have a large garden<\/a> (I don’t take a lot of photos out there any more) and I spend a lot of time tending to it and preserving <\/a>its bounty. It brings a smile to my face to come up from the basement with a pile of stuff that I canned earlier in the year and produce a meal. This is something that of course I run out of time for, but I always come back. I love the meal<\/a> planning, I love the fun tablescapes<\/a>\u00a0(looks like I need to load current photos) and I guess it is just a creative outlet. I want everyone to sit down to a meal and I want it to mean something. My dogs are my children. I can’t imagine my life without them and sometimes they demand that I sit with them, or that I take them outside for a stroll in the yard and sometimes they just want to be next to me. I love that about them.
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Being real<\/h2>\n

Last year I decided I was tired, frustrated with the fake front so many people were putting on. I wanted to not be that person just saying things and never doing anything about it. I want to really be involved, really reach out and really mean what I say. I’ve worked hard\u00a0at paying attention and watching what goes on\u00a0and I’ve tried hard to be sincere. I’ve tried to own what I say and I’ve tried to be more “there” and honestly it’s been more good for me than I realized. It is refreshing!<\/p>\n

Seeing the world<\/h2>\n

I’ve been doing trips for #SQLSaturdays and work almost exclusively since 2010. I had decided that the time was running by and I was missing out on the cities were visiting. Last year I became very diligent on getting out and seeing something not the speaker dinner and not the venue. So in every city, we’ve been trying to get there a tick early and see something. I’ve been collecting little pieces from every city and pinning them to the wall.
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Passion not allowed<\/h2>\n

One thing we were not allowed to talk about for this post is the tech community. But I have to say for the last year, year and a half\u00a0I have taken to helping individuals in \u00a0the #SQLCommunity as much as I can. I’m a bleeding heart, jump in with both feet and do what I can. I blogged about helping new speakers and am proud to say we had 8 new speakers #SQLSatNash .\u00a0 I can’t imagine my life without paying it forward.<\/p>\n

Passion<\/h2>\n

All in all, I think I am a pretty boring person and if I am inclined to be involved with anything I am passionate about it. I’m a very efficient person and don’t\u00a0like to\u00a0waste time. So I am passionate about all the things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It always comes to me as a surprise that it is TSQL Tuesday again. I guess time just slips by so quickly these days. If you haven\u2019t heard about or figured out what this Tuesday stuff is all about drop me a line and I will not only sell you on the concept I will convince you to write your first post for next month and even give you a spot to post it. This month it’s the 99th, amazing that a community has been able to manage this for so long. This time AAaron Bertrand [ b | t ] has given us a choice and actually titled . . . → Read More: #TSQL2sday Dealer’s Choice<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,228,221,178],"tags":[328],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sqlcommunity-technology","category-sqlfamily-technology","category-sqlsat","category-tsql2sday","tag-sqlibrium","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}