I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2022.
December is usually quiet, though this year I spent the first 12 days of the month out of town. That meant that I wasn’t getting much done, either at work, in my life, or on my goals. I did a little reading, but mostly it was work and holiday.
I’m going to do the grade for the month and then look at how I feel about the year.
Grades:
- December – B+
- 2022 overall – B
I made some good progress in December and managed to get a bunch done on my report, finished a book, and started on my demos again. Not amazing, but really good.
For the year, I think I’ll give myself a B as I managed to read all the books, do some demo work, and get my Power BI skills growing. I also did a bunch of community stuff, though not quite as I saw it happening at the beginning of the year. Still, a good year overall.
Here are the goals and updates for the month.
Work
Mostly reading this month, as I was traveling. I did reset my environment for a DevOps demo and got projects set up for SQL Server and PostgreSQL in the same repo.
- DP-900 – Passed
- DP-300 – Stated studying, practice tests around 80% correct, need to schedule
- Demo with SQL Server – 20% – dev db set up, started on pipeline
- Demo with PostgreSQL – 20% – Dev db set up
- Demo with MySQL – 0%
- Thanks for the Feedback – 100% – HIGHLY Recommended
- Good Strategy/Bad Strategy – 100% – VERY interesting
- Do Hard Things – 100% – HIGHLY RECOMMEND so far
- The Trusted Sales Advisor – 100%
Personal
Sent my dashboard to a few others to use. Not the entire team, but I got 4/10 using it to see what they think, which is a good start. With my assistant, we’re at 50%
- Link Google Sheets to Power BI – 100%
- Create Report – 75%
- Create Dashboard – 60% – Added a main page
- Get people using it – 50%
- Coaching Certification – 100%
Community
- Support the Colorado groups by speaking twice and helping getting two events set up
– 66% - CO Springs event set up and executed
- Denver SQL Server SQL Saturday executed
- Speak at 3 other community events (was user groups) outside of Colorado – 100%
- Spoke at DBA Fundamentals group
- Spoke at Toronto SSUG
- Spoke at SQL Saturdays in Jacksonville, New Jersey, LA, Denver
- Boston, Toronto in Oct
- Support SQL Saturdays – Help get 10 events run in 2022 – 100%
- We have had 15 run this year and 3 more scheduled
- In Nov, we had 5 events complete – Sao Paulo, Oregon, Bangladesh
- Seven events scheduled for 2023
- Volunteer 4 days with Habitat – 0 days
- Not happy about this still. I had hoped to go Sept 15, but they cancelled the build that day. Need to find another day, but it’s hard. They aren’t doing every Wed/Thur/fri, and travel is getting in the way.