I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2022.
Ugh, June was no bueno for life goals.
In May, I was away from home for 18 days. In June, I was home for 12 days.
Most by choice, a mix of work and personal trips, but across 7 trips, it was a disruption to my schedule and I find it hard to cope and focus on anything extra during those times.
I’m lowering the grade because most things haven’t changed. Essentially I read a little and got a few more SQL Saturdays scheduled.
Grade: C
Here are the goals:
Work
- 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%
- Feedback book – 100% – HIGHLY Recommended
- Good Strategy/Bad Strategy – 48%
Personal
I made a slight alteration here. I didn’t try to hook up to Google Sheets, but instead pasted in some data and started to try and get this moving.
- Link Google Sheets to Power BI – 0%
- Create Report – 40% – I have a report working for some of my metrics.
- Create Dashboard – 20% – A basic dashboard up, but need to decide on what to show here.
- Get people using it – 0%
Community
- Support the Colorado groups by speaking twice and helping get one event set up
– 40%- CO Springs event set up
- Meeting with Denver SQL about an event
- Speak at 3 other user groups outside of Colorado – 66%
- Spoke at DBA Fundamentals group
- Spoke at Toronto SSUG
- Support SQL Saturdays – Help get 10 events run in 2022
- I think we’re there. With the events coming online, there are 6 scheduled in H2, 3 that have run, and 3 more that are awaiting some detail to confirm. It looks like we’ll finish the year with 12, 10 of them in person.
- Volunteer 4 days with Habitat – 0 days
- Not happy about this. Now with a surgery, this will be delayed for a few months.