{"id":611,"date":"2011-02-14T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Community-community-community-community.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T12:47:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T19:47:27","slug":"community-community-community-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/community-community-community-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Community, community, community, community&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Back when I was at Microsoft, I witnessed Steve Balmer doing his mad &quot;Developers, developers, developers, developers!&quot; mantra a few times. (Checkout this video of him doing it&nbsp;<\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">.) <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Here at SQLskills.com, our mantra is &quot;Community, community, community, community!&quot;. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">You guys out there recognized that and voted us the #2 SQL company that&#39;s &quot;doing it right&quot; in Jen McCown&#39;s (<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnightdba.com\/Jen\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">blog<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">|<\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MidnightDBA\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">twitter<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">) recent poll&nbsp;&#8211; results were <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnightdba.com\/Jen\/2011\/02\/the-results-are-in-what-tech-companies-are-doing-it-right\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">just published<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\">We&#39;re very happy with that, and with the #1 company <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlsentry.com\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\">SQL Sentry<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\">&nbsp;who narrowly beat us for the top spot. They&nbsp;produce the excellent free <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlsentry.com\/products\/plan-explorer\/sql-server-query-view\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Plan Explorer tool<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> and are the exclusive sponsors of our first two public classes this year (read all about the cool free evening events in Dallas <\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/we\/\">here<\/a><\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">).<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">We have a lot of stuff out there for you guys for free:<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/commonsqlservermyths.pdf\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">The PDF of myths and misconceptions<\/font><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Our blogs<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/t_mcmvideos.asp\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">The MCM prep videos<\/font><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Our version of the <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/mcm.asp\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">MCM pre-reading list<\/font><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font size=\"2\">User group presentations, like the PASS Virtual Chapter on Performance I did in January on fragmentation (recording is here)<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">And a whole host of other resources including helping out on Twitter, SQL Server Central, and many more<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">If you want to join <strong><u>OUR<\/u><\/strong> community here at SQLskills.com, we&#39;re starting a monthly newsletter where we&#39;ll have exclusive content,&nbsp;advance notice of classes, plus discount codes for training and consulting. Sign-up by clicking <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/join-the-sqlskills-insider-community\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">Community, community, community, community!!!!<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I was at Microsoft, I witnessed Steve Balmer doing his mad &quot;Developers, developers, developers, developers!&quot; mantra a few times. (Checkout this video of him doing it&nbsp;here.) Here at SQLskills.com, our mantra is &quot;Community, community, community, community!&quot;. 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