{"id":631,"date":"2011-01-11T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/T-SQL-Tuesday-14-Resolutions-continue-having-fun.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T11:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:40:30","slug":"t-sql-tuesday-14-resolutions-continue-having-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/t-sql-tuesday-14-resolutions-continue-having-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"T-SQL Tuesday #14: Resolutions &#8211; continue having fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnightdba.com\/Jen\/2011\/01\/tsql-tuesday-014\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/7\/tsql2sday150x150.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\"><font size=\"2\">This month&#39;s T-SQL Tuesday is being run by newly-minted fellow-MVP&nbsp;Jen McCown&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnightdba.com\/Jen\/\">blog<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/midnightDBA\">twitter<\/a>) and the topic is about&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnightdba.com\/Jen\/2011\/01\/tsql-tuesday-014\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">resolutions<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">. And specifically about resolutions around technology you&#39;ve been pondering.<\/font> <\/font><\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\"><font size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">One of the things I try very hard to do is make it a bit fun when teaching people about SQL Server. Let&#39;s face it, it&#39;s a very, very dry topic and it would be really easy to get bored. If you know me at all, you&#39;ll know I have a pretty good (quirky) sense of humor.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">So, my resolution this year is to continue to have fun!<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">This involves (in no particular order of priority):<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Singing<\/font>\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"+0\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">I&#39;m the first to admit that I have no singing voice whatsoever. That did not stop us <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/our-christmas-gift-to-you-paul-and-kimberly-singing\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">recording a Christmas medley of songs<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> and publishing them for you all to laugh at.<\/font><\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Here are the words to my Silent Night rendition:<\/font>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Silent night, workload is light<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Pager&#39;s quiet, all is right<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Then a disk failure shakes off your delight<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">824 errors plague you through the nightAll of your backups are baaaad<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">But CHECKDB puts it all ri-ight, CHECKDB puts it all riiiiight.<\/font> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Sheep<\/font>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">And talking of baaaad&#8230;. I like sheep. In a totally family-friendly way. Everyone needs to go watch this video about a massive pong game on the side of a hill involving cleverly herding hundreds of sheep in the dark, all of the wearing jackets made from hundreds of LEDs.<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Check it out: <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw<\/a><\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/font> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Electronics<\/font>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">And talking of LEDs&#8230;. the hobby I spend most of my time with is building and tinkering with electronics<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Check out some of the things I&#39;ve built recently:<\/font>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paulselec\/post\/kit-building-vacuum-fluorescent-display-clock.aspx\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Vacuum fluorescent display clock<\/font><\/a> <\/li>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Interactive light panels<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Cascading shift registers to drive 7-segment LED displays<\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/font> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">And some of the things on the list for this year:<\/font>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2840MIlfRPc&amp;feature=related\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">8x8x8&nbsp;RGB LED cube<\/font><\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.makerbot.com\/makerbot-thing-o-matic.html\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">3d-printer<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> (I have it but haven&#39;t built it yet)<\/font> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">What does all this have to do with SQL Server? 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