This month we have a really interesting question for the T-SQL Tuesday invitation. Todd Kleinhans is the host and asks about personal databases. Do we use them for anything? Quite a create question for a professional.
My Personal Database
I don’t really have a lot of databases that are for personal use. I do a lot of testing and I have lots of sample databases from various sources. I have samples from Microsoft, various stats from sports leagues, even one with lots of SQL Saturday stuff (I need to make that one public). However, when I’m away from work, I’m usually away and don’t manage stuff in a database
Except.
I started to build one a few years ago to track some aspects of my life. It’ s a work in progress and like many of the databases out there, it’s a mish mosh of various unrelated items. For example, I’ve so far built some entities to track these items:
- speaking events
- places I’ve traveled or want to travel
- a bucket list
That’s it so far, and there’s no GUI. It’s not even accessible outside my desktop (though I do make backups). I need to move this into the cloud and be able to enter new data in there from any place. My intention is to get this back up in a website about life, maybe with links to pictures I want posted, maybe a visualization of travel, maybe just as a central list of things I’d like to do in life.
I’m really not sure, but that’s it for now. I may add in exercise or other things in my life where I track data. In fact, that might be the next thing, perhaps sucking data from MapMyrun.com or Garmin Connect, where I’ve stored lots of data. Perhaps an ETL project is in the works here in the future.