Are the posted questions getting worse?
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At our rehearsal dinner my father in-law (to be at the time) quoted the entire "mawwiage" passage. It was awesome!!!
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One I like to use is "Let me explain. No, that would take too long. Let me sum up."
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Steve Thompson-454462 (8/26/2016)
Grant Fritchey (8/25/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (8/25/2016)
Taking my girls (7 & 9) to New York this weekend, does anyone have a suggestion on what to do there for their age?😎
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an entire Egyptian temple inside. That's one of my favorite places to take kids. Lots to see. My favorite in the same location is the arms & armor exhibit. Then there's all the real art. Lots to see and it's in AC (supposed to be somewhat around here this weekend). Across the park is the Natural History Museum. Who doesn't love dinosaurs?
I second Grant's ideas - my daughter's 10 and she loves both of those places (we live in Manhattan). There both right on Central Park which is a great place to just truck around.
She also likes both of these restaurants; IMO the food's not very good, but the the kids go for them:
Jekyll & Hyde Club (haunted house themed pub food)
Ninja (ninja themed Japanese food)
If you want to avoid the themed restaurants and focus just on good food, there are plenty of places to get great Chinese, Indian, Italian, Mexican. Let me know if you need any specific suggestions.
Hope you have a blast
Thanks for the tip, still in NY and going to try out the Jekyll & Hyde Club today.
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Grant Fritchey (8/25/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (8/25/2016)
Taking my girls (7 & 9) to New York this weekend, does anyone have a suggestion on what to do there for their age?😎
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an entire Egyptian temple inside. That's one of my favorite places to take kids. Lots to see. My favorite in the same location is the arms & armor exhibit. Then there's all the real art. Lots to see and it's in AC (supposed to be somewhat around here this weekend). Across the park is the Natural History Museum. Who doesn't love dinosaurs?
Thanks for the tip Grant, the girls absolutely loved it, made friends with the staff and I had to drag them out of there at the end of the day, perfect!
😎
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Eirikur Eiriksson (8/31/2016)
Grant Fritchey (8/25/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (8/25/2016)
Taking my girls (7 & 9) to New York this weekend, does anyone have a suggestion on what to do there for their age?😎
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an entire Egyptian temple inside. That's one of my favorite places to take kids. Lots to see. My favorite in the same location is the arms & armor exhibit. Then there's all the real art. Lots to see and it's in AC (supposed to be somewhat around here this weekend). Across the park is the Natural History Museum. Who doesn't love dinosaurs?
Thanks for the tip Grant, the girls absolutely loved it, made friends with the staff and I had to drag them out of there at the end of the day, perfect!
😎
That sounds perfect. Those memories sound like the really cool ones that will last a kid a lifetime.
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Ed Wagner (8/31/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (8/31/2016)
Grant Fritchey (8/25/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (8/25/2016)
Taking my girls (7 & 9) to New York this weekend, does anyone have a suggestion on what to do there for their age?😎
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an entire Egyptian temple inside. That's one of my favorite places to take kids. Lots to see. My favorite in the same location is the arms & armor exhibit. Then there's all the real art. Lots to see and it's in AC (supposed to be somewhat around here this weekend). Across the park is the Natural History Museum. Who doesn't love dinosaurs?
Thanks for the tip Grant, the girls absolutely loved it, made friends with the staff and I had to drag them out of there at the end of the day, perfect!
😎
That sounds perfect. Those memories sound like the really cool ones that will last a kid a lifetime.
Yes Ed, absolutely priceless.
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Eirikur Eiriksson (8/31/2016)
Thanks for the tip, still in NY and going to try out the Jekyll & Hyde Club today.😎
Alright! Hope it worked out.
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So, I got roped into doing a professional development session for the local SQL Saturday.
"Becoming a successful SQL Developer"
Never done a professional development session before. Not sure how to approach it, or what people attending will be expecting. Help? Please?
Gail Shaw
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GilaMonster (8/31/2016)
So, I got roped into doing a professional development session for the local SQL Saturday."Becoming a successful SQL Developer"
Never done a professional development session before. Not sure how to approach it, or what people attending will be expecting. Help? Please?
The job title sql developer is so incredibly vague. Having looked at numerous position postings it is hard to determine a consistent skill set. Some places expect you to be totally up to date in numerous aspects of sql server (SSRS, SSIS, query optimization, etc) while others expect even a bit more including BA type of activities. Then there are the places that have a lower requirement. It might be a good approach to cover what typical requirements are for that title, and I suspect they change from location to location making it more challenging. Then touch lightly on each technology to discuss as a fairly high level what types of things you need to do and the common toolsets needed to be successful. Training options shouldn't be too bad to discuss as those don't really change much across the board. But the career prospects portion...I have no idea what that even means. I would think that the career prospects for something like this type of position are fairly flat as those of us who truly enjoy getting our hands dirty don't usually have aspirations of climbing the corporate ladder. Now that doesn't mean that we might move in responsibility some over time but at some level you would likely always have your hands in the code somewhere. Interesting topic. I would be interested to see what you come up with and what others in the thread think of for topics to discuss here.
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Sean Lange (8/31/2016)
GilaMonster (8/31/2016)
So, I got roped into doing a professional development session for the local SQL Saturday."Becoming a successful SQL Developer"
Never done a professional development session before. Not sure how to approach it, or what people attending will be expecting. Help? Please?
The job title sql developer is so incredibly vague. Having looked at numerous position postings it is hard to determine a consistent skill set. Some places expect you to be totally up to date in numerous aspects of sql server (SSRS, SSIS, query optimization, etc) while others expect even a bit more including BA type of activities. Then there are the places that have a lower requirement. It might be a good approach to cover what typical requirements are for that title, and I suspect they change from location to location making it more challenging. Then touch lightly on each technology to discuss as a fairly high level what types of things you need to do and the common toolsets needed to be successful. Training options shouldn't be too bad to discuss as those don't really change much across the board. But the career prospects portion...I have no idea what that even means. I would think that the career prospects for something like this type of position are fairly flat as those of us who truly enjoy getting our hands dirty don't usually have aspirations of climbing the corporate ladder. Now that doesn't mean that we might move in responsibility some over time but at some level you would likely always have your hands in the code somewhere. Interesting topic. I would be interested to see what you come up with and what others in the thread think of for topics to discuss here.
Part of the wide range of skills is size of the department doing the asking is some cases.
If you think back to when you started, pick out some of the key skills you needed out of the gate, and some that were added soon after.
Another thing you might touch on - some of the personal qualities you see in common with successful developers you see in the field.
Short amount of time, several areas to cover, including the unknown questions.
Maybe finding out who other panel members are, and see what they are thinking might help.
Unless you are the only panel.....
For training options, outlining a sample progressive path might work out.
If you cannot write a query, I don't think you should take a course on optimizing.
Some places will stop you, some might just take your donation.
A few book titles you found helpful for a couple topics would be worth sharing.
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Eirikur Eiriksson (8/31/2016)
Grant Fritchey (8/25/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (8/25/2016)
Taking my girls (7 & 9) to New York this weekend, does anyone have a suggestion on what to do there for their age?😎
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an entire Egyptian temple inside. That's one of my favorite places to take kids. Lots to see. My favorite in the same location is the arms & armor exhibit. Then there's all the real art. Lots to see and it's in AC (supposed to be somewhat around here this weekend). Across the park is the Natural History Museum. Who doesn't love dinosaurs?
Thanks for the tip Grant, the girls absolutely loved it, made friends with the staff and I had to drag them out of there at the end of the day, perfect!
😎
You're welcome. Great to hear. I love that place. I did a temporary job there once where I got to go in ahead of everyone in the morning. It was so much fun. I share it with anyone I can.
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GilaMonster (8/31/2016)
So, I got roped into doing a professional development session for the local SQL Saturday."Becoming a successful SQL Developer"
Never done a professional development session before. Not sure how to approach it, or what people attending will be expecting. Help? Please?
Tell them they're all doomed.
It'll be mostly entry level people. Just tell them what the job is, skills needed, resources for learning, stuff to avoid. You'll be fine.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore RooseveltAuthor of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning -
GilaMonster (8/31/2016)
So, I got roped into doing a professional development session for the local SQL Saturday."Becoming a successful SQL Developer"
Never done a professional development session before. Not sure how to approach it, or what people attending will be expecting. Help? Please?
Well the first word "becoming" strikes me as this being a how-to session. As in what people need to do in order to prepare themselves for that role. What knowledge they need to have under their belt, what sort of job opportunities should they be looking for to expand their resume in that direction, etc. Maybe approach it from a "you're a programmer or a dba and want to develop for SQL, so do x, y, z"?
EDIT: I've actually done a similar type of session for becoming a DBA in the first place. What I did was translate my own journey into steps that other people could follow if they really wanted to be a DBA. Told them what to avoid (brain dumps, boot camps) and explained that it was okay to not know everything so long as they were making the effort to learn and be honest about what they did know.
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GilaMonster (8/31/2016)
So, I got roped into doing a professional development session for the local SQL Saturday."Becoming a successful SQL Developer"
Never done a professional development session before. Not sure how to approach it, or what people attending will be expecting. Help? Please?
Step 1: Get an account at SQLServerCentral.com
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djj (9/1/2016)
GilaMonster (8/31/2016)
So, I got roped into doing a professional development session for the local SQL Saturday."Becoming a successful SQL Developer"
Never done a professional development session before. Not sure how to approach it, or what people attending will be expecting. Help? Please?
Step 1: Get an account at SQLServerCentral.com
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Step 2: Learn communication skills (written and verbal)
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