{"id":637,"date":"2010-12-24T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Our-Christmas-Gift-To-You-Paul-and-Kimberly-Singing!.aspx"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:24:08","slug":"our-christmas-gift-to-you-paul-and-kimberly-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/our-christmas-gift-to-you-paul-and-kimberly-singing\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Christmas Gift To You: Paul and Kimberly Singing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\">We&#8217;d like to thank you all for reading all our stuff all year, for coming to our classes and conference sessions, and for being our friends. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\">So to say thank you (and to torture you!) I wrote some SQL &#8211; Christmas carols and persuaded Kimberly to join me in the fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\">And so we present A SQLskills Christmas Medley &#8211; one minute of our dreadful singing to you all. The sound quality isn&#8217;t fabulous as it was spur-of-the-moment in the kitchen on a laptop rather than on our recording gear, but I like that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\">Download it by clicking <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/insidercontent\/202512\/merrychristmas.wav\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0(2.5MB WAV, 1 minute)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\">Merry Christmas and our very best wishes for a healthy and prosperous New Year!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">PS This is why our company name is not SingingSkills&#8230; if you listen carefully you can hear Kimberly starting to laugh as I start my solo rendition of Silent Night\u00a0:-)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d like to thank you all for reading all our stuff all year, for coming to our classes and conference sessions, and for being our friends. 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