tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77126433543820034302024-02-22T05:06:09.388-05:00RiepediaA place on the web for Women in Technology. Offering general support and guidance on professional development. Highlighting the accomplishments of women that influence me daily and make a difference in our lives.Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-69741651635689524392021-02-17T11:04:00.000-05:002021-02-17T11:04:06.197-05:00Azure Data Tech Groups: Community owned, Microsoft empowered<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">By now you might have seen the video released Feb 17th where Buck Woody (<a href="https://twitter.com/BuckWoodyMSFT">t</a>) explains everything that the Microsoft Data Platform is doing to empower the community. If not, you can catch that <a href="https://youtu.be/obFlSwpIihc">here</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">When PASS announced that it would cease operations on January 15, 2021, I think we all wondered "What now?" </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Microsoft recognizes that local user groups are the life blood of the Data Community. User groups are vital to networking, people's careers and the overall community. Our</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> philosophy is that these groups should be Community-owned, and Microsoft-empowered. To that end, we've created a <span style="line-height: 107%;">series of assets, resources, and benefits for </span>your local Community Group Leader to run your group. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Interested group leaders can find out more about what Microsoft is offering fill out the form linked </span><a href="https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2020/12/22/resources-for-the-sql-server-and-azure-data-community/" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What is Microsoft offering to qualified groups? </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">A <a href="http://aka.ms/datacommunity">Community Landing Page</a> to find a user group, upcoming
events, community blogs, etc. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">
Meetup fees, fully paid for by Microsoft, with a centralized way to find groups
in the Data Community that are part of the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/pro/azuredatatechgroups/">Azure Data Tech Groups</a> network. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Full Microsoft Teams subscriptions with all the bells &
whistles for qualified Community Groups</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Community Leader Collaboration (via Teams & Meetup) </span></li></ul><span style="font-family: verdana;">You can find a list of </span><a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql/azure-data-community-faqs/ba-p/2142849" style="font-family: verdana;">FAQ</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">s on the Azure SQL blog.</span><br /><b><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">What is a qualified group?</span></b><p></p>
<p class="DWTNorm" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Have
a group leader and a designated co-leader who have each accepted these
T&Cs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="DWTNorm" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Not
charge other members a fee to attend Group meetings, except in cases in which
the venue and/or hosting costs (e.g., food and beverages) are passed through to
members. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="DWTNorm" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Maintain
a published code of conduct that is easily accessible from the Group’s home
page. See guidance <a href="https://aka.ms/atg/guidance">https://aka.ms/atg/guidance</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="DWTNorm" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><a name="_Hlk60931383"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Maintain
a regular meeting cadence including having meetings at least six times per year
that relate to or cover Azure Data products & services or relate to
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) or Professional Development
targeted to data professionals. <o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60931383;"></span>
</span><p class="DWTNorm" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Comply
with Program’s Code of Conduct located at <a href="https://aka.ms/atg/code_of_conduct">https://aka.ms/atg/code_of_conduct</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="DWTNorm" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Adhere
to Microsoft’s Trademark and Brand guidelines, when using any Microsoft
trademarks or referring to Microsoft’s software, products or services (see <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/trademarks/usage/general.aspx">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/trademarks/usage/general.aspx</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What
technologies does my local group need to focus on for my group leader to
qualify for benefits?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">SQL Server (on Windows, Linux, and in Containers, on-premises and
in Microsoft Azure)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Azure Data Lake <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Azure Cosmos DB<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Azure HDInsight, Hadoop and Spark on Azure<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Azure Search<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Data Warehousing (Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Fast Track and APS)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Azure Stream Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cortana Intelligence Suite<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Information Management (ADF, SSIS, and Data Sync)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">SQL Server Reporting Services and Analysis Services<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">SQL Server Machine Learning Services<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Azure Database for MySQL<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Azure Database for PostgreSQL<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Azure SQL (Database, Pools, Serverless, Hyperscale, Managed Instance,
Virtual Machines)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Azure SQL Edge<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Big Data Clusters<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Azure Databricks<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Azure Arc Enabled Data Services<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Azure Synapse Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Azure Data Catalog</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-16472655027270886952020-04-30T17:12:00.001-04:002020-04-30T17:12:32.163-04:00SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My first big collaborative project since I joined Microsoft just went live. And I don't think it's bragging to say I'm really proud of what we produced. In a very compressed timeline, these 7 MVPs produced a chapter each on their specified topic. See info below</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 106%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<div style="box-sizing: border-box;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<span style="line-height: 106%;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines</span></b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<span style="line-height: 106%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Packt Publishing has produced a 171 page technical manual for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines, Microsoft’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering for SQL Server. The book draws on expertise from seven Microsoft MVPs (Joey D'Antoni (<a href="https://twitter.com/jdanton">t</a>), Louis Davidson (<a href="https://twitter.com/drsql">t</a>|<a href="https://drsql.org/">b</a>), Allan Hirt (<a href="https://twitter.com/sqlha">t</a>|<a href="https://sqlha.com/">b</a>), John Martin (<a href="https://twitter.com/SQLDiplomat">t</a>), Anthony Nocentino (<a href="https://twitter.com/nocentino">t</a>), Tim Radney (<a href="https://twitter.com/tradney">t</a>|<a href="http://timradney.com/">b</a>), and Randolph West (<a href="https://twitter.com/_randolph_west">t</a>)) and provides an overview of Microsoft's Azure SQL family of SQL Server–related data services in the cloud. It also provides tips for getting started and hero capabilities as well as deep dives into security, Linux, and performance. Finally, best practices are shared for cloud migrations and hybrid scenarios across on-premises and cloud environments. Live in EN-US the last week of April.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<span style="line-height: 106%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can download it for free <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/sql-server-azure-virtual-machines/">HERE</a> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Learning Objectives </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By the end of this book, you will be able to: </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Choose an operating system for SQL Server in Azure VMs </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Use the Azure Management Portal to facilitate the deployment process </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Verify connectivity and network latency in cloud </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Configure storage for optimal performance and connectivity </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Explore various disaster recovery options for SQL Server in Azure </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Optimize SQL Server on Linux</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Discover how to back up databases to a URL </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Audience</b> </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines is for you if you are a developer, data enthusiast,
or anyone who wants to migrate SQL Server databases to Azure virtual machines. Basic
familiarity with SQL Server and managed identities for Azure resources will be a plus.
Approach
This book incorporates every aspect of SQL deployment on Azure with a perfect blend
of theory and hands-on coding. Each chapter is designed to build on the learnings of
the previous lesson. </span></div>
</div>
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">About the Authors </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Louis Davidson (Chapter 1, Introduction to SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines) </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Louis Davidson is a data architect for CBN in Virginia Beach, VA; telecommuting for
many years from Cleveland, TN (which is not even as glamorous as it sounds.) Louis
has written and contributed to many books on SQL Server topics over the past 20 years.
His most prominent work has been five editions of his book entitled: "Pro SQL Server
Relational Database Design and Implementation" for Apress in 2016, with a new version
forthcoming in 2020. Louis has been a speaker at many SQL Saturday events, and has
helped organize events in Nashville and Chattanooga, TN. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Allan Hirt (Chapter 2, Getting started with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines) </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">SQLHA, LLC founder, consultant, trainer, author, and business continuity,
infrastructure, and virtualization expert Allan Hirt has been working with SQL Server
since 1992 when it was still a Sybase product as well as clustering in Windows Server
since the late 1990s when it was known as Wolfpack. Currently a dual Microsoft MVP
(Data Platform; Cloud and Datacenter Management) as well as a VMware vExpert, Allan
works with all sizes of customers no matter if they are on premises or in the public
cloud and delivers training and speaks at events over the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Joey D'Antoni (Chapter 3, Hero capabilities of SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines) </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Joseph D'Antoni is a Principal Consultant at Denny Cherry and Associates Consulting.
He is recognized as a VMWare vExpert and a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and has over
20 years of experience working in both Fortune 500 and smaller firms. He has worked
extensively on database platforms and cloud technologies and has specific expertise in
performance tuning, infrastructure, and disaster recovery. </span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anthony Nocentino (Chapter 4, SQL Server on Linux in Azure Virtual Machines) </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anthony Nocentino is the Founder and President of Centino Systems as well as a
Pluralsight author and a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Linux Expert, and Corporate
Problem Solver. Anthony designs solutions, deploys the technology, and provides
expertise on system performance, architecture, and security. Anthony has a Bachelors
and Masters in Computer Science with research publications in high performance/
low latency data access algorithms and spatial database systems. You can find him on
Twitter @nocentino. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tim Radney (Chapter 5, Performance) </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tim is a Data Platform MVP. He has presented at PASS, SQLintersection, Microsoft
Ignite, SQL Saturdays, user groups and numerous webinars. In addition, Tim runs
the Columbus GA SQL Users Group, is a PASS Regional Mentor and was named a
PASS Outstanding Volunteer. He's married with three children and has a passion for
electronics. He also farms chickens, crops, and tilapias in his spare time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">John Martin (Chapter 6, Moving workloads to SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines) </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">John is an experienced data platform professional having spent over a decade working
with the Microsoft data and cloud platform technologies. In this time John has learned
how to get the most out of these platforms as well as the key pitfalls that should be
avoided. </span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Randolph West (Chapter 7, Hybrid scenarios (Microsoft SQL IaaS)) </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Randolph West, founder of Born SQL, is an independent IT consultant, speaker, Calgary
PASS user group leader, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and lead author of the book
SQL Server 2019 Administration Inside Out. Randolph specializes in SQL Server
performance tuning, disaster recovery, and migrations from really old versions, with
an emphasis on implementing best practices. Randolph has presented at PASS Summit,
SQLBits, SQL Saturdays, and user groups. You can also find Randolph acting and
directing on screen or the stage, or annoying people on Twitter. Do not trust Randolph
around chocolate.</span><br />
<br />Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-82885969573698871072019-10-25T10:00:00.000-04:002019-11-05T11:55:15.747-05:00Microsoft Focus Groups @ PASS SummitEach year, Microsoft hosts a series of Focus Groups at PASS Summit. These are a chance for you to meet with several different Product teams to either provide feedback on something they built or learn where the roadmap is taking many different aspects of the data product, from security, to migrations to tools.<br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday, November 6th </span></b><br />
<br />
10:00AM-11:00AM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/web-uis-for-sql-analytics-tickets-77524526947" target="_blank">Synapse - Analytics for Modern Datawarehouse in the Cloud</a> with Jenny Jiang & Omid Afnan<br />
11:15AM-12:15PM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-multi-dimensional-models-focus-group-tickets-77528061519" target="_blank">The future of multi-dimensional models</a> with Richard Tkachuk<br />
12:30PM-1:30PM <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/existing-security-capabilitiesfeatures-focus-group-tickets-77528841853" target="_blank">Existing Security capabilities/features</a> with Mirek Sztanjo, Rohit Nayak, Andreas Wolter<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
1:45PM-2:45PM <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/notebooks-in-azure-data-studio-focus-group-tickets-77530189885" target="_blank">Notebooks in Azure Data Studio</a> with Vicky Harp<br />
3:00PM-4:00PM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/modern-development-with-azure-sql-eventhubkafka-integrationchange-feed-tickets-77530871925" target="_blank">Modern Development with Azure SQL </a><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/modern-development-with-azure-sql-eventhubkafka-integrationchange-feed-tickets-77530871925" target="_blank"> (EventHub/Kafka Integration, Change Feed, etc)</a> with Davide Mauri<br />
4:15PM-5:15PM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sql-and-data-warehouse-data-sharing-focus-group-tickets-77531652259" target="_blank">Data sharing with SQL Data Warehouse!</a> with Kevin Ngo<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Thursday, November 7th </span></b><br />
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10:00AM-11:00AM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/report-creation-in-power-bi-focus-group-tickets-77532211933" target="_blank">Data Modeling in Power BI</a> with Carly Landers & Erika Sam<br />
11:15AM-12:15PM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/near-real-time-interact-analytics-on-big-data-using-azure-data-explorer-fg-tickets-77532775619" target="_blank">Doing near-real-time interact analytics on Big Data using Azure Data Explorer</a> with Avner Aharoni<br />
12:30PM-1:30PM <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demo-for-sql-assessment-api-focus-group-tickets-77533453647" target="_blank">Demo for SQL Assessment API</a> with Ebru Ersan<br />
3:00PM-4:00PM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-make-query-plans-easier-for-users-to-understand-focus-group-tickets-77534111615" target="_blank">How to make query plans easier for users to understand</a> with Vicky Harp, Pam Lahoud, Pedro Lopes<br />
4:15PM-5:15PM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/report-creation-in-power-bi-focus-group-tickets-77535184825" target="_blank">Report Creation in Power BI</a> with Carly Landers; Erika Sam<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Friday, November 8th </span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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9:00AM-10:00AM <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/collaboration-in-azure-data-studio-focus-group-tickets-77535559947" target="_blank">Collaboration in Azure Data Studio</a> with Vicky Harp<br />
10:15AM-11:15AM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sql-migrations-to-azure-whats-working-well-and-whats-not-focus-group-tickets-77536115609" target="_blank">SQL Migrations to Azure – what’s working well and what’s not</a> with Shreya Verma and Davide Mauri<br />
11:30AM-12:30PM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/multi-cloud-concept-testing-and-scenario-reviews-focus-group-tickets-77536589025" target="_blank">Multi-cloud concept testing and scenario reviews</a> with James Roland-Jones<br />
12:45PM-1:45PM <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/planned-featuressecurity-roadmap-focus-group-tickets-77537142681" target="_blank">Security: Planned features/Security Roadmap</a> with Mirek Sztanjo, Rohit Nayak, Andreas Wolter<br />
2:00PM-3:00PM <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-microsoft-cloud-migration-tools-and-services-focus-group-tickets-77537413491" target="_blank">The Future of Microsoft Cloud Migration Tools and Services</a> with Charles Christian and Sreraman NarasimhanRie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-39017278286387354432019-10-04T10:27:00.000-04:002019-10-04T10:27:06.010-04:00Modernizing your Database with Azure SQL<br />
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<br />Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-27527005519887026862017-09-19T18:45:00.001-04:002017-09-19T18:45:25.635-04:00She's not hard to look at...<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Last week, a colleague of
mine sent me an email with a YouTube link. It was a webinar she'd attended earlier in the day on Machine Learning. She wanted me to watch a 30 second segment of the video
and let her know if she was just being <i>sensitive</i>. That women even have to worry about this is a blog for a different day. </span></div>
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comment below & decide for yourself.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Speaker: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is, what's her name. She's been
in Machine Learning with Microsoft for a long time.
What's her name? I love her. Oh, Olivia Klose. She's got an accent.
<i>She's not hard to look at.</i> She does a lot of demos on
Machine Learning specific to Microsoft."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Then he moved right along into
the topic at hand, as if nothing had happened.
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> I don't know this speaker, I have no ax to
grind. His comment was at best, careless, and at worst a form of
benevolent sexism. </span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Benevolent sexism is a set
of interrelated attitudes toward women that are sexist in terms of viewing
women in restricted roles but that are subjectively positive in feeling &
tone.</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Whatever it was, the feelings it evoked were immediate. They were not at all <i>sensitive</i>. I was as angry as my colleague. HOW DARE HE? Then I reminded myself that I shouldn't be that surprised. Comments like this are something many women in IT
deal with frequently. We're professional, damn good at our job, but then
some guy in a meeting thinks it's appropriate to comment on our looks... as if
that mattered at all. Taking away from the importance of our actual
accomplishments and reducing us a "pretty face". It's something
that really can knock the wind out of our sails. While I know it sounds
complimentary, it isn't. We're there to teach or work, it isn't a beauty
pageant. </span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here's the upside. Here’s where I realize
we’re making progress. Where I’m
reminded there are some amazing Women in Tech allies out there, who want to do
the right thing. A lot of men emailed,
DM’d or tweeted their own little “Not cool, man!” thoughts. They’d noticed it
being said and were upset on her behalf. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I reached out
to the moderator of the session. I
included the email I’d been sent, the link to the video and outlined the
insensitive comment. I explained, much
like I did in the paragraph above why exactly this was so bothersome. He reacted as well as I could have
hoped. He immediately pulled the video
down. He’ll be modifying it to exclude
the comments. He asked how I’d like to
handle it. He emailed HQ to explain what
happened and the actions he wanted to take.
He suggested in addition to this blog, that we turn this into a joint
session to teach men in tech the damage that can be caused by comments like
those made by the speaker. Like me, he wanted to turn this into something
positive, into what elementary teachers refer to as “teachable moments”. The best I can hope for is a world where a
professional woman can be described by the quality of her work and not by how
easy she is to look at. Slowly but surely, it's getting better. For now, I’ll
accept this as a step in the right direction. </span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-7685388358976998542017-08-10T16:11:00.001-04:002017-08-10T16:11:25.528-04:00I'm speaking at MS Ignite!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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place to meet the experts, get your questions answered, and connect with the
tech community. I’ll be there, presenting <a href="https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/55809" target="_blank">Let Her Finish: Supporting Women's Voices in IT</a>, and I hope
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As most of you know, I think it's my calling to highlight & support women in technology, specifically speakers and leaders in the SQL Community. Each month, our Virtual Group presents a technical session by a female speaker or a session specific to a female gender related topic, presented by a man or woman. Part of these sessions involves a list of what women are doing. That's what this blog psot does. A highlight of what women in the SQL Community are doing in just the second half of July 2017</div>
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<tr class="telerik-reTableHeaderRow-3" style="background-color: #c4d1e3; border-spacing: 10px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3a4663; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; margin: 10px; padding: 10px; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: top;"><td class="telerik-reTableHeaderFirstCol-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 14pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Event </td><td class="telerik-reTableHeaderOddCol-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 14pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Location </td><td class="telerik-reTableHeaderEvenCol-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 14pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Date </td><td class="telerik-reTableHeaderOddCol-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 14pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Session Title </td><td class="telerik-reTableHeaderEvenCol-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 14pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Presenter</td></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableOddRow-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><td class="telerik-reTableFirstCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">SQL Sat #653</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Columbus</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">7/22/2017</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><a href="http://wit.pass.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sqlsaturday.com%2f653%2fSessions%2fDetails.aspx%3fsid%3d65614&tabid=7286&portalid=215&mid=57085" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef4b41; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Health: The Most Important Tech Tool</a></td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Cassandra Faris</td></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableOddRow-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><td class="telerik-reTableFirstCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">SQL Sat #653</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Columbus</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">7/22/2017</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><a href="http://wit.pass.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sqlsaturday.com%2f653%2fSessions%2fDetails.aspx%3fsid%3d65365&tabid=7286&portalid=215&mid=57085" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef4b41; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collecting Baseline Metrics</a></td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Tracy Boggiano</td></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableOddRow-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><td class="telerik-reTableFirstCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">SQL Sat #653</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Columbus</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">7/22/2017</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><a href="http://wit.pass.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sqlsaturday.com%2f653%2fSessions%2fDetails.aspx%3fsid%3d66529&tabid=7286&portalid=215&mid=57085" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef4b41; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why NULL is not a value (and other SQL gotchas)</a></td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Wendy Pastrick</td></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableOddRow-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><td class="telerik-reTableFirstCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">SQL Sat #653</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Columbus</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">7/22/2017</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><a href="http://wit.pass.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sqlsaturday.com%2f653%2fSessions%2fDetails.aspx%3fsid%3d64437&tabid=7286&portalid=215&mid=57085" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef4b41; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m It – Survival Techniques for the Lone DBA</a></td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Monica Rathbun</td></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableOddRow-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><td class="telerik-reTableFirstCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">SQL Sat #653</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Columbus</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">7/22/2017</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><a href="http://wit.pass.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sqlsaturday.com%2f653%2fSessions%2fDetails.aspx%3fsid%3d65746&tabid=7286&portalid=215&mid=57085" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef4b41; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Are You There, DBA? It’s Me, The App Developer</a></td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Jacquelyn Keeper</td></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableOddRow-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><td class="telerik-reTableFirstCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">SQL Sat #653</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Columbus</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">7/22/2017</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><a href="http://wit.pass.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sqlsaturday.com%2f653%2fSessions%2fDetails.aspx%3fsid%3d66553&tabid=7286&portalid=215&mid=57085" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef4b41; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Answering the question, "What happened?" with Query Store</a></td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Erin Stellato</td></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableOddRow-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><td class="telerik-reTableFirstCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">SQL Sat #653</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Columbus</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">7/22/2017</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><a href="http://wit.pass.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sqlsaturday.com%2f653%2fSessions%2fDetails.aspx%3fsid%3d65670&tabid=7286&portalid=215&mid=57085" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef4b41; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Making Your List and Checking It Twice: Introduction to unit testing with tSQLt</a></td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Elizabeth Noble</td></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableOddRow-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><td class="telerik-reTableFirstCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">SQL Sat #653</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Columbus</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">7/22/2017</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><a href="http://wit.pass.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sqlsaturday.com%2f653%2fSessions%2fDetails.aspx%3fsid%3d64277&tabid=7286&portalid=215&mid=57085" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef4b41; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where Does R Fit Into Your SQL Server Stack?</a></td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Stacia Varga</td></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableOddRow-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><td class="telerik-reTableFirstCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">SQL Sat#653</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Columbus</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">7/22/2017</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><a href="http://wit.pass.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sqlsaturday.com%2f653%2fSessions%2fDetails.aspx%3fsid%3d65763&tabid=7286&portalid=215&mid=57085" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef4b41; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reduce your DBA (& DEV) task list by using Microsoft BI tools</a></td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Tamera Clark</td></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableOddRow-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><td class="telerik-reTableFirstCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">SQL Sat #654</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Omaha</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">7/22/2017</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><a href="http://wit.pass.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sqlsaturday.com%2f654%2fSessions%2fDetails.aspx%3fsid%3d63957&tabid=7286&portalid=215&mid=57085" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef4b41; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Transitioning from Integration Services to Azure Data Factory</a></td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Meagan Longoria</td></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableOddRow-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><td class="telerik-reTableFirstCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">SQL Sat #654</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Omaha</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">7/22/2017</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><a href="http://wit.pass.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sqlsaturday.com%2f654%2fSessions%2fDetails.aspx%3fsid%3d63958&tabid=7286&portalid=215&mid=57085" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef4b41; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Things I Learned the Hard Way About Azure Data Platform Services So That You Don't Have To</a></td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meagan Longoria</span></td></tr>
<tr class="telerik-reTableOddRow-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><td class="telerik-reTableFirstCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">SQL Sat #628</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Baton Rouge</td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">7/29/2017</td><td class="telerik-reTableOddCol-3" style="background-color: #f7f3f7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><a href="http://wit.pass.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sqlsaturday.com%2f628%2fSessions%2fDetails.aspx%3fsid%3d63187&tabid=7286&portalid=215&mid=57085" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef4b41; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduction to SharePoint Patterns and Practices</a></td><td class="telerik-reTableEvenCol-3" style="background-color: #e7ebf7; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0in 5.4pt;">Theresa Eller</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">Join
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<span style="color: #5fcbef; font-family: "wingdings 3";">u</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "trebuchet ms";">In this
session, we share our experiences and lessons learned from a recent migration
to Azure for a SQL Server data warehousing environment. We begin with sharing
our reasoning for IaaS vs. PaaS, our carefully-selected naming conventions, and
how we structured development, test, and production within subscriptions and
resource groups. We cover the what, why, and how for decisions around storage,
encryption, and backups. Finally, the session wraps up with a brief discussion
of the use of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and PowerShell, as well as
techniques for monitoring the environment in Azure</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "trebuchet ms";">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5fcbef; font-family: "wingdings 3";">u</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Melissa </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Coates is a Business Intelligence Architect with </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "trebuchet ms";">SentryOne</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "trebuchet ms";">. Based in
Charlotte, North Carolina, she specializes in delivering Analytics, Data
Warehousing, and Business Intelligence solutions using on-premises, cloud, and
hybrid technologies. Formerly a CPA, Melissa is ridiculously proud to be an IT
geek and downright giddy to be a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. When Melissa
steps away from the keyboard, you can probably find her hanging out with her
border collie, paddle boarding, or playing in the garden. Melissa
blogs at sqlchick.com.</span></div>
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Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-86278776237606401592017-07-07T12:26:00.000-04:002017-07-07T12:26:19.024-04:00SQL Saturday Atlanta is almost here Well, it's that time of year again. No, not summer time, where people take vacations with their family, spend lazy Saturdays at the lake or sitting on their patio with a beer. It's that time of year when the idea of free time goes out the window. We've been hard at work planning <a href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/652/eventhome.aspx" target="_blank">SQL Saturday Atlanta</a>. We've moved to a new month (July instead of May) and a new venue (Lawrenceville instead of Alpharetta). These changes have meant almost everything else changes too: hotel, pre con dinner locations, speaker party location, after party location, struggling with room layout, where to put the sponsors, etc. <br />
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The new venue is lovely, spacious & filled with light in the common areas. Gwinnett Technical College has been a joy to work with. Luckily, we've been able to get almost everything on the first floor. We have multiple rooms that seat 90 people and most seat 50+. We're going to need it too. As of today, we have 709 attendees registered. But as expected there are some last minute details to work out. Things like having a custodian on staff so we don't run out of toilet paper in the men's room. Making sure we have a tech support person there to show us how this crazy AV equipment works. Do we have WiFi for everyone? Can the ready room be locked overnight or do I have to move all our things to a different place & bring it back bright & early on Saturday? <br /><br />
And let's not forget budgeting. The new place is expensive. I know a lot of SQL Saturdays get venues for little to nothing. That isn't how it works here in Atlanta. Not for 500+ people. So we do this delicate balancing act of paying over $8,000 for a building that will hold us all, feed 500+ people a decent lunch in a very short window of time, host a speaker dinner & an after party all while making sure sponsors get their monies worth. <br />
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<br />Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-34828985678458363372017-04-18T10:44:00.000-04:002017-04-26T13:11:41.342-04:00On Being Awarded my Microsoft MVP on the Data Platform <span style="color: #073763;">The email came on Saturday, April 1st. It was already a crazy day, with my daughter competing in regionals, several hours away that evening. Things were a bit of a whirlwind that morning getting her to dress rehearsal in full hair & makeup, costume ready to go and packing bags for our over night stay. I'm having a very late, very rushed lunch with my boyfriend as 3 MVP calendar invites show up in my inbox. There's been some mistake, I think. It is April Fool's Day after all. I wasn't awarded an MVP with this latest round. Was I? </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Time to check the Social & Promotional folders on my Gmail. And there it is</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">I'm actually at a loss for words for a couple of minutes. I place my phone, face down on the table and quietly say "I've been awarded the MVP. I can think of so many other people that are more deserving." To be considered among such company is incredibly humbling. I'm immediately aware of the responsibility now upon my shoulders. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">According to Microsoft, this award is given to exceptional community leaders who share their remarkable passion, real-world knowledge and technical expertise with other through a demonstration of exemplary commitment. I suppose I do that. I'm very active with my local user group and I organize SQL Saturday Atlanta (<a href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/652/EventHome.aspx" target="_blank">register or submit NOW!</a>). I speak at SQL Saturdays all across the US every year. I'm an Idera ACE for 2017 where they encourage me to blog, answer questions in their <a href="http://community.idera.com/blog/" target="_blank">forums</a>, host <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SQLChat&src=typd" target="_blank">#SQLChat</a> and present webinars for them. I'm co-leader of the PASS Women in Technology <a href="https://wit.sqlpass.org/" target="_blank">Virtual Chapter</a> and host 15+ webinars a year where women speak on technical topics and highlight women technical speakers weekly as they're speaking at different events, presenting webinars or Pre Cons. I mentor other women to GET OUT THERE and speak. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Do you know someone that does all of this and probably more? If so, I encourage you to <a href="https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/Nomination/nominate-an-mvp" target="_blank">NOMINATE</a> that person to be a Microsoft MVP as well. It applies for women in business and the same holds true for being an MVP. Once you make it through the door, it's your responsibility to drag someone along with you. I've already nominated someone that I felt was truly deserving of the award. </span></div>
Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-50180259936033065462017-03-02T10:00:00.001-05:002017-04-26T13:27:51.204-04:00Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 0.25in;">
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disaster. They're even more important before you build your disaster recovery
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long can you be down. Or put another way, how long until you have to come
back up. So find out how your business defines RTO and then build toward
that. Of course, this can vary based on the nature of your disaster.
Did you lose a database, an instance or did someone kick the storage out
from under everything? Did you have to fail over to your DR site? Were
you the victim of a DDOS attack, either directly or indirectly?</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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asking "How much data can you lose?" Some systems, like
payments and healthcare systems, that answer will be zero. The approach
and expense for those systems is greatly different than others. The
infrastructure, build and design will vary by a large degree when you're
allowed to lose milliseconds of data versus up to 15 minutes. For slow changing
systems, could you restore on Tuesday from a Sunday full backup and Monday's
differential? In some instances, rebuilding is faster and easier than
restoring, so be sure to explore that as an option. </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aren't the ones who have to make it happen. If you can't meet their
requirements, be honest. You also need to be aware of contractual obligations
to external clients. While these are out of your direct control, you
should encourage sales & legal to work with you while you prep a contract.
If they're promising 5 9's in uptime but you can only deliver 3 9's, they
need to know. Use phrases like "claw back", "refund of
fees" or "violation of terms". That should get their
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how much data you can lose and how long you've got to get things back up and
running, set about making that happen. Start documenting your backup processes
then put them into place across the enterprise. Make sure all of your servers
are following the rules you've established. If you can lose 15
minutes worth of data and take 2 hours to come back online, then set the
schedule. Make sure you know how to restore the tail end of a log. <a href="https://tradney.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/how-to-restore-the-tail-end-of-a-transaction-log/" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 21.3333px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here</span></a>, Tim Radney
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We're not just talking about database backups. If you use
it, you'll need it. Defining items to backup other than databases means
an end to end examination of our business. Plan on having to recovery
things like Active Directory, Application configs, development source code,
external files, encryption keys and passwords. Script out some things
ahead of time like SQL Agent jobs, a create logins script, database restores,
service accounts, etc. </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Any DBA is only as good as their last restore. That means
you should be doing that regularly. You'll want to establish recovery
baselines. During a disaster, the longer something takes, the more likely
you are to panic. Make sure you know ahead of time everything you'll need to do
for a restore and how long you'll expect it to take. Make sure you have
copies of database backups locally and a copy at your DR site. You should know
how long it's going to take to restore. Of course, the biggest pay off to
practicing restores is knowing that your backups work. </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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test your D/R plan, you don't have a plan. You have a document."
Document your DR plan. Practice. Automate. Adjust. Document.
Practice again. It's the only way to really be sure. That being
said, if your business can't support a full fail-over test, consider a tabletop
test instead. Once your plan is documented, have a meeting with all of
the people responsible for recovery. Go through each and every step of
your DR plan. Make sure every one agrees this should work. Make
sure every one understands their role. Make sure they have all the pieces
they need to put this plan into action.</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Don't just practice for the big disasters either. Practice
for those smaller disasters & disruptions. Things like DDOS, ISP
going down, a data center power outage, natural and unnatural disasters.
While these aren't directly a DBA problem, if they cause you to fail to
your secondary data center, it just became your problem. Then there are
the smaller but potentially devastating events: forgetting a where clause in
production, drive failure, storage corruption or a malicious insider. A
pissed off employee can cause real issues deleting or modifying data that is
vital to your company. Be prepared to do an object level restore or a
side-by-side restore to recover data that may have been compromised. </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Let's be honest. Most companies can't afford to build &
maintain a hot standby environment equal to your current production. If
yours can, good for you. Feel free to skip this section. But if
they're like many companies, DR is currently sharing real estate with staging,
QA or UAT. It's not a hot site or it barely has the processing power
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Identify your wants versus your needs. Lay out what you
WANT your DR site to look like and how you need for it to function. Identify
how you're going to keep it up to date. Then lay out what you NEED to
have for your disaster recovery site. I suspect the final product
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Don't forget hardware, licensing and maintenance. Plan for
enough storage space for the live databases and backups. You'll need enough web
servers to run your applications. Don't forget to factor in enough time
each & the peop0le required to build this out and maintain it on a monthly
basis. You'll have to patch all those servers & keep versions
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Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-35509520622747963422017-02-22T16:28:00.002-05:002017-04-26T13:29:23.676-04:00Let Her Finish: Supporting Women's Voices from Staff Meetings to the Board Room <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
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time. Maybe you don’t notice because it’s so frequent, like a fish not
knowing it’s in water. It's just the way things are, right? Let's lay out
the problem, then we'll talk about how to be part of the solution. Women
are interrupted in meetings at 3 times the rate that men are. It doesn't have
to be that way. </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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showed men were responsible for 47 out of 48 conversation interruptions.</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that men not only interrupted twice as often as women, they were 3 times as
likely to interrupt a woman.</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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findings include:</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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their male peers, by the chair during public hearings.</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Diversity Panel – Google Exec Chair Eric Schmidt repeatedly interrupted U.S.
Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith, the sole female panelist on stage with
him during the talk. Finally, he was reprimanded by an audience member, Judith
Williams, who also happened to be Google's global diversity manager.</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) was officially silenced while
reading a letter on the senate floor. The letter, authored by Coretta
Scott King, was read into the Congressional record in 1986 by Ted Kennedy
(D-MA). The 30 year old letter directly addressed the topic at hand, the
ability of Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to support the civil rights of all Americans. </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; padding: 0in;">Think it’s just an example of politics and not sexism? Four
other senators were allowed to read the letter all or in part just hours after
Sen. McConnell silenced Sen. Warren. I've listed them below. Just
shout it right now if you notice anything different about them. Come on,
I know you know the answer.</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon)<br />
Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)<br />
Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont)</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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coincidence? I’m willing to bet that most working women know it’s business as
usual. </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>So how have other people solved these problems?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">A No Interruptions
Policy</span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Years ago, while
producing the hit TV series “The Shield,” Glen Mazzara noticed that two young
female writers were quiet during story meetings. He pulled them aside and
encouraged them to speak up more.</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Watch what happens when we do, they replied.</span></i><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Almost every time
they started to speak, they were interrupted or shot down before finishing
their pitch. When one had a good idea, a male writer would jump in and run with
it before she could complete her thought.</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">He found a
clever way to change the dynamics that were holding those two female employees
back. He announced to the writers that he was instituting a no-interruption
rule while anyone — male or female — was pitching. It worked, and he later
observed that it made the entire team more effective.</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">A Seat at the Table</span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Women working for
the Obama White House complained they weren’t being let into important
meetings. When they were, they were ignored.</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Female staffers
adopted a meeting strategy they called “<b>amplification</b>”: When a woman
made a key point, other women would repeat it, giving credit to its
author. This forced the men in the room to recognize the contribution
— and denied them the chance to claim the idea as their own.</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">How can<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>you</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>help solve the problem? </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">To start, women need
to learn a few key phrases. </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">"I'm not
finished." </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">"Stop
interrupting me."</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">"I just said
that."</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">But we can't do it
alone, gentlemen. Pay attention the next time you're in a meeting.
When you hear this happen to your co-worker, be her ally. Try this:</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">"Let her
finish."<br />
"Don't interrupt."<br />
"She just said that."</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; padding: 0in;">So what are your ideas about solving this problem? I'd love
to hear them. Either comment below or tweet me @IrishSQL</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9soYj3O4Ud8" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9soYj3O4Ud8</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><a href="http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/03/19/google-chief-blasted-for-repeatedly-interrupting-female-government-official/"><span style="color: #1f4e79; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/03/19/google-chief-blasted-for-repeatedly-interrupting-female-government-official/</span></a></span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-52207576291593504062016-11-17T10:19:00.000-05:002016-11-17T10:31:32.722-05:00SQL Server Migrations Lessons Learned<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
With the recent announcements surrounding all the wonderful things available in SQL
Server 2016 SP1, I couldn't help but think about migrating my servers NOW.
I must be crazy, right? I managed a migration from SQL Server
2005 to SQL Server 2014 in March of this year. It's only been 8 months. Don't I ever learn?
Actually it turns out, I do. I learned a lot. I was asked to
share that experience with <a href="http://www.idera.com/" target="_blank">Idera </a>via their April <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SQLChat%20since%3A2016-04-10%20until%3A2016-04-15&src=typd" target="_blank">#SQLChat</a> on Twitter. </div>
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What is <a href="https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23SQLChat" target="_blank">#SQLChat</a>? I'm glad you asked. If you already know, skip ahead to Question 1. Still here? Good. #SQLChat is an Idera Software sponsored SQL Community conversation that takes place entirely on Twitter. A series of questions are asked & answered on a predecided topic. There's a host (in today's example, I played that role) that came up with the questions & solicits answers. There's the @Idera_Software twitter account that poses the questions. There's a dozen or more SQL professionals that help answer these questions, Finally, there are other SQLFamily twitter users that ask follow up questions. It's less Q&A and more conversation. </div>
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If you use TweetDeck or similar Twitter Interface Apps, trying following the #SQLChat hashtag. If you can participate this month, great! If not, read over the questions & answers at your leisure. I promise, you'll learn something every time.</div>
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</b><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">Q1: What are your deciding factors for migrating/upgrading </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SQL" style="white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span class="hash"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">#</span></span><span class="link-complex-target"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">SQL</span></span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">Server and to what version? </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SQLChat" style="white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span class="hash"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">#</span></span><span class="link-complex-target"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">SQLChat</span></span></a></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>My thoughts: W<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">ould upgrade benefit the business? Are new features worth the time/effort/money? While some companies wait as late as possible, right up until End of Life for a product, others chose to be proactive. How does this benefit us? Is the payoff worth all the time, effort, planning, money, etc? This answer can vary by company and project. </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #292f33;"><i>I really loved the answers my SQL colleagues came up
with. They asked some great follow up
questions & had great advice. Answers
varied on when they’d make the decision, what the driving factors would be, how
they’d handle it, etc. I’ve compiled
some of those here for you.</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">Am I currently on a supported version? If not, time to
upgrade.</span> Rob Volk <a href="https://twitter.com/sql_r" target="_blank">@sql_r</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">"Do you wait for engine to seize before changing oil
& filter in car?" ;) </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sqlchat" style="white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span class="hash"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">#</span></span><span class="link-complex-target"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">sqlchat</span></span></a> <span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">Rob Volk @sql_r </span><o:p></o:p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">Business decision + vendor app support. Go to latest/greatest
app will run on, preferably 2012 or 2014. </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SQLChat" style="white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span class="hash"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">#</span></span><span class="link-complex-target"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">SQLChat</span></span></a> --
Paul Timmerman <a href="https://twitter.com/mnDBA" target="_blank">@mnDBA</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">If I need\want to use newer features… If I have available
licenses (we dont have an EA) </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sqlchat" style="white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span class="hash"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">#</span></span><span class="link-complex-target"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">sqlchat</span></span></a> – Monica Rathbun
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<a href="https://twitter.com/Idera_Software" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9;">@</span><span class="link-complex-target"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">Idera_Software</span></span></a><span style="background: white; color: #292f33;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> How high of a SQL version will the related software support?</span> --Dave Mason <a href="https://twitter.com/begintry" target="_blank">@BeginTry</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/Idera_Software/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9;">@<span class="link-complex-target">Idera_Software</span></span></a><span style="background: white; color: #292f33;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Waiting til the last minute can lead to panic, mistakes AND loss of compliance certs </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sqlchat" style="white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span class="hash"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">#</span></span><span class="link-complex-target"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">sqlchat</span></span></a> -- Rie Irish <a href="https://twitter.com/IrishSQL" target="_blank">@IrishSQL</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">New features/functionality benefits, whether the system is
covered under SA, and highest ver w/ app support.</span> – Jamie Wich
<a href="https://twitter.com/Jamie_Wick" target="_blank">@Jamie_Wick</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">Q2: How do you decide your timeline from initial planning to
push to production? </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SQLChat" style="white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span class="hash"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">#</span></span><span class="link-complex-target"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">SQLChat</span></span></a></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>My thoughts: We actually started with the date we wanted
to Go Live & then built our calendar backwards from there. We had to leave in a little time to spin
tires & get stuck in the mud, but that Go Live date was the goal line. It wasn’t moving. To accomplish this, we had to do a few
things. We had to get buy in from sales
& executive teams. I’ve found if
those guys, the ones with their eye on money want something, it usually
happens. Try to have someone on the development
champion the change from inside. This will help drive them to reach their
dates. Get the migration put on their
project roadmap early. This will help
guide them when they’re choosing which project to work on. The one that’s already on the roadmap, of
course! Some people felt they didn’t
have a voice in when the change happened but they seemed to keep their sense of
humor about it.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">Upper Management dictates most of the time .. and I just have
to hit the mark </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sqlchat" style="white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span class="hash"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">#</span></span><span class="link-complex-target"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">sqlchat</span></span></a> – Monica Rathbun
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<span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">What date did the PM pull out of thin air and tell everyone
else before consulting DBAs?</span> --
Bob Pusateri <a href="https://twitter.com/sqlbob" target="_blank">@SQLBob</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">I've never been a decision maker for upgrade timeline. I'm
lucky to find out before it happens.</span> – Rob Volk <a href="https://twitter.com/sql_r" target="_blank">@sql_r</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">In my pharma jobs, I got RDBMS classified as infra, which
gave us more flexibility for upgrading</span> – Joey D’Antoni <a href="https://twitter.com/jdanton" target="_blank">@jdanton</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regardless, the timeline always ends up shorter than you'd like </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SQLChat?src=hash" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #3b94d9; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #3b94d9; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">#</span></span><strong style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #3b94d9; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">SQLChat</strong></a> James Medlin @jmedlinz</div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #292f33;">Follow up question, do you allow development/QA time in your
initial deadline? How much time is allotted?</span> John Morehouse <a href="https://twitter.com/sqlrus" target="_blank">@SQLrus</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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say? Who leads?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SQLChat" style="white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span class="hash"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">#</span></span><span class="link-complex-target"><span style="background: white; color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none;">SQLChat</span></span></a><u1:p></u1:p></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>My thoughts: We started with management.
Not just executives, but all levels of management. We met with Director
of Development to discuss what we wanted to do. He was immediately on
board and so was the people on his team doing the work. We're a Software
as a Service shop, so we aren't a vendor shipping out software. These
changes were going to be in-house. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">We identify 3 of our clients each release
for a 3 month BETA test. Onsite engagements as well at that time</span>. --Jim Donahoe <a href="https://twitter.com/sqlflipflopsDBA" target="_blank">@SQLFlipFlopsDBA</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">Again, I'm not usually a decision maker. I'll add DEV,
operations, support if they're not included by mgmt. – Rob Volk <a href="https://twitter.com/sql_r" target="_blank">@sql_r</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">Collaborative effort. As a DB architect, we usually lead
the charge but definitely get other teams involved.</span> – John Morehouse
<a href="https://twitter.com/sqlrus" target="_blank">@SQLRUs</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">A3: DBA Team is brought into project as a resource. We
drive discussions around version of SQL Server. </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sqlchat?src=hash" style="outline: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#<strong>sqlchat</strong></span></a> --Paul Timmerman <a href="https://twitter.com/mnDBA" target="_blank">@mnDBA</a><span style="background: white; color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">A3 It Depends! Totally on the scope of the project, who
gets most benefit, etc. </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sqlchat?src=hash" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#</span><strong><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">sqlchat</span></strong></a> -- Mike Essen <a href="https://twitter.com/begintry" target="_blank">@AtlSQL</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>My thoughts: So this is the easiest one for me
to answer. Frankly, this blog post may
not have enough space to hold what I’d change or do differently. First, have a project manager. A good PM will think of all those details
your techie brain won’t. She’ll make
sure people are staying on task & help identify what isn’t getting
done. Second, create a flight plan for
the actual migration. I learned this
lesson many years ago and it’s stuck with me.
We create an excel spreadsheet with a row for every “to do” item, from
building servers to restoring DBs for mirroring. We provide an estimated start & end time,
the person responsible, how we test it, etc. It might seem too detailed but
trust me, this attention to detail pays off.
And this should be a living document.
Don’t be afraid to rewrite steps, times, etc. as you move through
Staging, UAT and into Production.
Practice. Repeatedly. Until you’re sick of it. Make sure you all know the steps to the dance. A migration should be like a well-choreographed
Broadway show.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Once again, my SQL colleagues didn’t
let me down. They came up with some
great advice based on their experience.
Again, they maintained their sense of humor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">A4: Practice. Automate. Practice again. Automate more.
Refine until I don't need to be there. </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SQLChat?src=hash" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#</span><strong><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">SQLChat</span></strong></a> –Rob Volk <a href="https://twitter.com/sql_r" target="_blank">@sql_r</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">A4: Does "go back in time 5 years and do something
differently in the first place" count as an answer? </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sqlchat?src=hash" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#</span><strong><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">sqlchat</span></strong></a> --
Vicky Harp <a href="https://twitter.com/VickyHarp" target="_blank">@VickyHarp</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">A4:To let somebody else manage it! HA Just to practice and
practice until it goes smoothly with little interaction</span> -- Jim Donahoe <a href="https://twitter.com/sqlflipflopsDBA" target="_blank">@SQLFlipFlopsDBA</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">This! Having template processes helps a ton. Saves us a
bunch of time. – Paul Timmerman <a href="https://twitter.com/mnDBA" target="_blank">@mnDBA</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">Not having to deal w/ multiple domains
would be nice. :)</span> -- Dave Mason
<a href="https://twitter.com/BeginTry" target="_blank">@BeginTry</a><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">Q5: Did you do a rolling
migration or did you plan downtime?</span></b><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;"> </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SQLChat?src=hash" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#</span><strong><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">SQLChat</span></strong></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>My thoughts: We chose to do a rolling migration
on the databases but turned off client access to the applications. Argenis Fernandez (T|B) gives a session on Rolling
Upgrades that really cemented this as a choice for us. The downside in using this method to upgrade
versions is rollback. Once you bring up
the new version (with mirroring); you can’t fail back. If you’ve turned off apps like we did, you
wouldn’t lose transactions by bringing up the old DB though. We spent the week,
days & hours leading up to the migration restoring backups. First, restoring the full backup from the prior
weekend, next the differential from the night before and finally a day’s worth
of t-log backups. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Based on feedback on this question,
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">A5: I've done both rolling upg. and planned downtime.
Downtime is always an option, whether you plan for it or not </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SQLChat?src=hash" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#</span><strong><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">SQLChat</span></strong></a> – Rob Volk <a href="https://twitter.com/sql_r" target="_blank">@sql_r</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">A5: I also always try to do rolling upgrade to new
hardware/environment, easier and faster to roll back if needed. </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SQLChat?src=hash" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#</span><strong><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">SQLChat</span></strong></a> – Rob Volk <a href="https://twitter.com/sql_r" target="_blank">@sql_r</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">I prefer a rolling migration with as little downtime as
possible. Time = money usually. </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sqlchat?src=hash" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#</span><strong><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">sqlchat</span></strong></a> – John Morehouse <a href="https://twitter.com/sqlrus" target="_blank">@SQLRUs</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">A5: AGs are rolling migration. Stand-alone have planned
downtime. Unsupported dbs are migrated off at upgrade. </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sqlchat?src=hash" style="outline: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#<strong>sqlchat</strong></span></a>
– Jamie Wick <a href="https://twitter.com/Jamie_Wick" target="_blank">@JamieWick</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">A5: Rolling migration with downtime only for last log
application. Standard process. </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SQLChat?src=hash" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#</span><strong><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">SQLChat</span></strong></a> – Paul Timmerman <a href="https://twitter.com/mnDBA" target="_blank">@mnDBA</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">Q6: What role did High Availability play
in your decision to migrate? </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SQLChat?src=hash" style="outline: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: white; color: #3b94d9; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">#SQLChat</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>My thoughts: Most people agreed that moving to
High Availability played a large role in their decision to migrate. I work for a company that has high
transactions with 24/7 uptime. We needed
to modernize the infrastructure and increase availability. Moving to Availability Groups provided a
sense of security & stability that execs required. Just 2 weeks after migration from 2005 to
2014 (virtualized), we experienced corruption in our main production
database. These things never happen at a
reasonable hour, so in the wee hours on a Sunday morning, I was able to use the
readable secondary on the AG to repair the damaged data. It took me a couple of hours, running select
statements that attempted to read from the damaged pages, but with each error
SQL Server replaced the damaged/missing data with corrected data. What a payoff! To be able to go to the executive team at
work and say “We had an issue over the weekend that could have resulted in lost
client data, but because of the investment YOU made in our infrastructure, we
didn’t.”</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">A6: Huge! Recently were moving from SQL Server 2005. More
confidence in newer renditions of HA features. </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SQLChat?src=hash" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#SQLChat</span></a> – Paul Timmerman
<a href="https://twitter.com/mnDBA" target="_blank">@mnDBA</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">A6: The new HA features of SQL definitely will play a role.
</span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sqlchat?src=hash" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#</span><strong><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">sqlchat</span></strong></a> --
John Morehouse <a href="https://twitter.com/sqlrus" target="_blank">@SQLRUs</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">A6: HA is major factor for most prod dbs. </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sqlchat?src=hash" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#</span><strong><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">sqlchat</span></strong></a> – Jamie Wick @<a href="https://twitter.com/Jamie_Wick" target="_blank">JamieWick</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">A6: None, Mirroring & Log Shipping have been around
forever. Haven't ventured into AG yet. </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sqlchat?src=hash" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#</span><strong><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">sqlchat</span></strong></a> – Mike Essen <a href="https://twitter.com/begintry" target="_blank">@AtlSQL</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">A6 my biggest problem with AG is WFC requirement. Multiple
servers, physical clusters, diverse geography. </span><a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SQLChat?src=hash" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9;">#</span><strong><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #3b94d9; text-decoration: none;">SQLChat</span></strong></a> – Scott @ppcx<o:p></o:p></div>
Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-9726146445726055722016-10-05T11:53:00.003-04:002016-10-05T14:06:51.711-04:00PASS Board Elections are here - time to make your voice heard<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">It's that time of year again, election season! PASS Board of Directors balloting opens today, October 5th and wraps up October 11th. You should make sure you vote, let your voice be heard. It matters. A lot of us see problems with the decisions being made with regard to the direction of PASS and the SQL Community. If you're one of those people, now is your chance to do something about it.<br /><br />I just want to get this out there before you read any further. <span style="font-size: large;">I'm throwing my support, for what it's worth, behind Wendy Pastrick.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;"> Why? That's a simple one. She has a history of performance, of doing what's right for Virtual Chapters, and focusing on the SQL Community. I've gone to her several times over the years with Community related issues, User Group and SQL Saturday questions and even more recently, feedback dealing with harassment both in person and online. Every single time, she's waded into the middle of the fray, without shying away. She's never said "That's not my problem." Instead, she's said "While this is someone else's PASS responsibility, I've looped them in, how can we help?" </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">I often hear the refrain that the BOD doesn't listen, they don't care about the people or they only care about vendors. I've never felt my concerns or complaints fell on deaf ears with Wendy. I've never once believed that she didn't give a damn. Her response and follow through certainly implies that she gives a damn. Frankly, that's what we need at the Board of Directors level. Someone that hasn't given up on the SQL Community. That's Wendy, no doubt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">Check her out here:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://wendyverse.blogspot.com/2016/10/election-season-please-vote-for-pass.html" target="_blank">http://wendyverse.blogspot.com</a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;"><a href="https://twitter.com/wendy_dance" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/wendy_dance</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oct 5:</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> Balloting Opens</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oct 6:</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> Twitter Chat events</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oct 11:</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> Campaigning and Balloting closes at noon pacific</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oct 12:</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> Election Results announced </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-56088919948458191912016-07-11T14:29:00.002-04:002016-07-11T14:29:47.882-04:00Presenting on Gender Bias & Inequality at SQL Saturday #527, Columbus, Ohio<br />
This coming Saturday, July 16th, I'll be presenting my Women in Technology session on Identifying, Understanding and Combating Gender Bias. First, let me thank Dave Maxwell (<a href="https://twitter.com/dmmaxwell" target="_blank">T</a>|<a href="https://dmmaxwell.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">B</a>) & the other organizers for inviting me to be a part of this event. Second, let me congratulate them on selecting so many sessions presented by women. It wasn't a conscious effort on their part but I think that's just as amazing. I'm told frequently by organizers that they'd love to pick more women speakers, but they just aren't submitting. That wasn't the case here, 7 of the 30 sessions are presented by women. We've seen similar ratios at Pensacola & upcoming in Baton Rouge. (<a href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/515/Sessions/Schedule.aspx" target="_blank">SQLSat515</a>) Some of you may have noticed that we now highlight women speakers on a <a href="http://wit.sqlpass.org/WITSQLSaturday.aspx" target="_blank">section</a> of the PASS WIT page. We continue to tweet about upcoming webinars and SQL Saturday speakers from the <a href="https://twitter.com/PASS_WIT" target="_blank">@PASS_WIT</a> account. Check these out frequently to see the great work women are doing in the PASS Community.<br /><br />
<b>Here is a peek at the amazing line up of women coming up this Saturday in Columbus. </b><br />
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<b>Do you think we need Professional Development sessions? What about WIT?</b><br />
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You'd think by now that a WIT topic or even a Professional Development track would be at least without controversy and at best, expected. That isn't the case here. I don't intend to give someone more attention than they deserve, so I'll simply say that a few, isolated individuals think Prof Dev & WIT topics have no place at a technical event. When they compare my session on Gender Bias to sessions on office lighting or their favorite flavor of Mountain Dew, their comments make me think Women In Technology topics are more needed than ever. I wanted to scream to the Internet what this session <i>means</i>. This session defines inequality & bias, helps you identify when it's happening, provides context on why it's important to know and gives the attendee positive steps they can take to combat it. Bias in hiring & promotion means dollars not invested in women in technology. Inequality in the work place is a big reason women are not coming to IT & why they aren't staying. These things should be obvious, right? How can you not <i>get it</i>? Instead of screaming, I opted for a few deep breaths, a few edits and a calm, professional tone. Basically, I decided not to feed the trolls.<br />
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<b>The SQL Community seems to think so.</b><br />
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Then the good guys and ladies arrived. The outspoken, weight-carrying, vocal majority stepped up and defended the need for both WIT & Prof Dev sessions. They cited reasons these sessions are important, related what you'd learn to common work-day scenarios and drew parallels instead of resorting to emotional, name-calling comments. <b>To call the outpouring of support "amazing" is an understatement. </b> It helped me put these negative comments into perspective. The insensitive jerks are the minority in IT. The vast majority of our colleagues really want to be supportive & help further our push for equality. And they want us to help them get there. <br />
<br /> As I read the positive comments from Andy Warren [<a href="https://twitter.com/sqlandy" target="_blank">T</a>], Aaron Bertrand [<a href="https://twitter.com/AaronBertrand" target="_blank">T</a>], Tim Radney[<a href="https://twitter.com/tradney" target="_blank">T</a>], Neil Hambly[<a href="https://twitter.com/Neil_Hambly" target="_blank">T</a>], Steve Jones[<a href="https://twitter.com/way0utwest" target="_blank">T</a>], Stephanie Locke [<a href="https://twitter.com/SteffLocke" target="_blank">T</a>] and Christine Assaf [<a href="https://twitter.com/HRTact" target="_blank">T</a>], I was reminded how much I love and appreciate my SQL Family. In-person friends & Twitter connections stepped up with their very welcome two cents. Some people took the author up on his suggestion & emailed the event organizer. Only instead of asking these sessions be removed from the schedule, they told him how much they loved his line up! They reinforced that Prof Dev & WIT sessions are very important to the SQL Community.<br />
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The friends and colleagues that sent me private messages of support or other solutions were appreciated as well. That being said, I've got this. But stand by, just in case I don't.<br />
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<br />Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-74938201269067392342016-03-24T13:32:00.002-04:002016-04-07T16:14:48.434-04:00Some Comments on Gender Inequality<br />
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I hesitate to use phrases like “life changing” but I think that’s what
happened. To say the evidence presented
really rocked me back on my heels is an understatement. It made me sad. Then it made me mad. How have we let this happen? This kind of thing just gets excused &
dismissed all the time. It’s easy to not
call it out when you see it because who wants to be labeled as some
over-sensitive, angry female? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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typically unconscious and often stems from long held misperceptions about women
and job responsibilities. We’ll learn about the origins of some of these
biases and how to identify gender bias when we see it. We’ll discuss some
strategies for how both men and women can combat this at work and in our everyday
lives. This session is about developing positive solutions to a problem that
often goes undiscussed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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students to raise a hand if one of these words applied to them, as we read
words from BOTH the girls’ and boys’ lists. Girls comfortably raised their
hands for words like “soccer,” “powerful,” “hard challenges,” and “Karate”; and
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Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-24245122487570544652016-03-11T10:33:00.003-05:002016-03-11T10:33:51.386-05:00Celebrating International Women's Day<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Earlier this week, the world celebrated International Women's Day. I was dismayed to read a few posts from friends on social media, lamenting "another international day of something made up". Comments comparing it to National Grilled Cheese Day (which, let's be honest, is AWESOME) to National Yoga Pants Day (which I think probably IS made up). Let me reassure you all, International Women's Day is a real thing and has been celebrated for over 100 years!! </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1975, it was first celebrated by the United Nations. In 2011, President Obama helped celebrate the 100th year by declaring March to be Women's History Month. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the website <a href="http://www.internationalwomensday.com/About">http://www.internationalwomensday.com/About</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">International Women's Day (IWD) has been observed since in the early 1900's - a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">International Women's Day is a collective day of global celebration and a call for gender parity. No one government, NGO, charity, corporation, academic institution, women's network or media hub is solely responsible for International Women's Day. Many organizations declare an annual IWD theme that supports their specific agenda or cause, and some of these are adopted more widely with relevance than others.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights," says world-renowned feminist, journalist and social and political activist Gloria Steinem. International Women's Day is all about celebration, reflection, advocacy, and action - whatever that looks like globally at a local level. But one thing is for sure, International Women's Day has been occurring for over a century - and is growing annually from strength to strength.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Women all over the world facebooked, instagrammed, blogged, snapchatted & tweeted about being a woman, celebrating women and supporting women. Some held rallies & marches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are some of my favorites.</span><br />
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<a href="http://fortune.com/2014/12/29/ted-talks-inspiring-women-leaders/" target="_blank">Career Advice You Probably Didn't Get</a><br />
<a href="http://zenpencils.com/comic/157-amy-poehler-great-people-do-things-before-theyre-ready/" target="_blank">Amy Poehler: Great People Do Things Before They're Ready</a><br />
<a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/courtney_martin_reinventing_feminism?language=en" target="_blank">Ted Talks: This isn't her mother's feminism</a><br />
<a href="http://feministing.com/2013/05/22/a-list-of-feminist-ted-talks/" target="_blank">Feministing.: A List of TED Talks</a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDbH9Gjl6Zo" target="_blank">PASS WIT VC Gender Inequality & Unconscious Bias</a></span><br />
<a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/03/08/celebrating-international-womens-day/" target="_blank">Celebrating Women Inventors!</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So how did you celebrate International Women's Day?</span>Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-45214765705455487792016-02-03T11:16:00.002-05:002016-02-03T11:16:27.055-05:00A Call for Help: Supporting a Young Speaker<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">I could really use your help showing some support to a new
speaker. There's a young woman presenting her first SQL Saturday session
this week. Evelyn Maxwell, 7th grade daughter to Dave Maxwell is
presenting at SQL Saturday Cleveland on Feb 6, 2016. If you could take a
few minutes to send a tweet offering words of encouragement, empowerment &
support, I'm sure she'd appreciate it. Be sure to use the hashtag
#WIT4Evelyn. I'll have Dave show them to her on Friday or Saturday night.
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Check out her session here <a href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/473/Speakers/Details.aspx?spid=4558">Evelyn's
SQL Saturday Cleveland Session</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evelyn Maxwell is a 7th </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">grade student at Gahanna Middle School West. She is a frequent attendee of </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">local SQL Saturday's. Since 4th grade, (age 10) Evelyn has been working with </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">presentation software and has given multiple school presentations. She currently </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666;">has 0 years of IT experience.</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br />
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<img height="200" src="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/images/speakers/4558-0501237d.jpg" width="158" />Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-23810229459828206842016-02-02T15:40:00.001-05:002016-02-02T20:39:39.731-05:00WIT-Diversity Panel: Parenting Daughters in an IT world & Why Its Important<pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 25.7143px; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: normal; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I recently had the opportunity to facilitate a panel at SQL Saturday #480 in Nashville, TN. Instead of a traditional Women in Technology panel, this one was a diversity panel discussing a WIT topic. We assembled a group of SQL professionals, <span style="line-height: 25.7143px;">Justin Dearing, Patrick LeBlanc, Arlene Rose and I to discuss</span><span style="line-height: 25.7143px;"> raising daughters in a very tech savvy world. </span><span style="line-height: 25.7143px;">Parenting is hard. We all know that. Parenting girls is really hard. Adding to this already complicated job, is our technology based way of thinking & problem solving. It's probably not a great idea to create a project road map for your children. The IT field isn't very diverse, but we have the opportunity to change that in a generation: encouraging young females, calling out other biases in the field and coming up with positive solutions. Are we raising tech savvy daughters? Should we be? </span></span></pre>
<pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 25.7143px; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: normal; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 25.7143px;">We asked each panelist to talk about themselves, their family & how they approach parenting in general. Two men, two women. Married, divorced. One girl, two girls, a boy & girl. Teenagers, toddlers. Varied backgrounds but similar answers to the questions presented. </span><span style="line-height: 25.7143px;">Would you encourage their daughter to enter the tech industry? Why or why not? What tech opportunities do you provide? What do you do to encourage a positive attitude toward tech?</span></span></pre>
<pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 25.7143px; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: normal; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both Arlene & Patrick don't <i>have</i> to push their daughters into tech at all. The girls gravitate toward it. So these parents only have to fuel a fire that's already there. When presented with the chance, the girls have opted to find IT solutions to problems, even if that problem is just boredom. My daughter is aware of technology, uses it to her advantage, games for hours but has no interest in the creating... only the creation. Justin, the father of one 2 year old girl with another on the way, is only beginning to identify how he wants to approach technology. He jokes that as a programmer, he wishes he could automate parenting. I have friends who would love to write a PowerShell script to handle the job. I think that was something a lot of us can relate to. He made a great point though, parenting is a little more free form but there is no restore from backup. </span></pre>
<pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 25.7143px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 25.7143px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We went through a few different topics. I'd like to hear your thoughts below.
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<li><span style="line-height: 25.7143px;">How does being in IT affect or change the way you parent? Does it affect the way you parent a daughter vs a son? Should it?</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 25.7143px;">Has parenting a daughter affected the way your recognize/define diversity?</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 25.7143px;">Would you encourage your daughter to enter the tech industry? Why or why not?</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 25.7143px;">What are your expectations for your daughter in everyday life? How do those apply to your expectations around technology?</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 25.7143px;">What tech opportunities do you provide?</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 25.7143px;">What do you do to encourage a positive attitude toward science & tech?</span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 25.7143px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I often tell my daughter this.
I don't care who you love; I care that you love.
I don't care what you do; I care that you do.
</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 25.7143px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ultimately we all agreed, technology field or not, we'd encourage our daughters to just to be happy.</span></pre>
Rie Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212338791576340374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712643354382003430.post-72537504698177696802015-12-23T12:10:00.000-05:002015-12-23T19:24:45.931-05:00A Thank You, to MY Women in Technology<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #741b47;">“You should write a blog.” my friends told me, “You have a
lot to say!” I’ve long suspected what
they meant was “You sure do talk a lot.”
I finally decided that both could be true. I wondered what I really had to talk about,
what inspires me & gets me talking.
That part was easy: supporting women in technology, my #SQLFamily, my
daughter, my job. I’ve recently accepted a leadership position
for the SQL PASS Women in Technology Virtual Chapter, along with Kathi Kellenberger. I’m thrilled by the honor & humbled by
the responsibility. Those that have held
this position before me have grown this chapter, it’s involvement in the
community and it’s presence at PASS Summit each year. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">I've started thinking lately about all the strong, smart, beautiful women that played a role in my being here. I'd like to say I've been lucky but that isn't true. It isn't luck. These women are here because I chose them. I sought out women that challenged me, supported me, understood me and loved me back. And there's no slackers in my crew either. These women kick ass and take names. They run virtual chapters, user groups, SQL Saturdays, present at PASS Summit, teach tech to young girls, and support women already in tech. T</span><span style="color: #741b47;">hey don't settle for second place. </span><span style="color: #741b47;"> </span><span style="color: #741b47;">Most importantly, t</span><span style="color: #741b47;">hey leave no woman behind. </span><br>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">So, my first blog post is for them. It's to say thank you for your love, your support, your help, your answers to questions and your occasional shove in the right direction. </span></div>
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