I was approached by a man at SQL Bits who only wanted to thank me for blogging. He said, “I know you probably never hear from anyone, but you should. Thanks for what you do.” I’m not mentioning his name because he promised me he’d write an editorial for publication, so I’m going to wait on him to get that done so he gets full credit then, not on my silly blog post.

But, the idea stuck with me.

I realized, that I don’t do it. Oh yeah, I have an “Interesting Reading” set of links that I post to Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. Sharing is “thanking” in our modern vernacular, right? No, of course not. It’s not the same. I really do appreciate the help that I get on the internet. Some of you are youngsters and don’t remember what it was like before the World Wide Web, even before America Online, before CompuServe, before the Bulletin Board Systems. We used to have to learn everything from books. EVERYTHING. We either knew someone who knew answers, or we suffered in ignorance. We walked to school and back home through 8 feet of snow, uphill, both ways… wait, where was I? Seriously, we have it good today. Better still, the SQL Server community is awesome for it’s sharing (oversharing even). There is almost limitless, free, good, information out there. The people who are generating it deserve your thanks.

So, if you read a blog post, and it was useful, take the time to post a quick thank you. Just do it.

For myself, I’m trying to think of a new blog series for thanking people.

In the mean time, real fast, in no order, no links, but very serious and heartfelt thanks to:

Kalen, Paul, Itzik, Brent, Tom, Tim, Adam, Wes, Benjamin, Kim, Don, Denny, Allan, Allen, Erin, Steve, Andy, Karen, Gail, Johnathan, and a bunch of people I’m not thinking of at the moment.

I’ve learned so much from you guys, for free. You’ve made a positive impact in my career. Thank you. I promise to try to do more to show that appreciation in the future.

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