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What You Need To Bring to SQLBits

April 23, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

With only a few days to go before SQLBits kicks off, here’s some last minute tips on what you need to bring to ensure you have a fantastic experience.

Filed Under: Professional Development Tagged With: Community, Events, SQLBits

How To Win Career Gold

January 22, 2013 by John Sansom 6 Comments

Team GB medal winners

The start of a new working year is often a time for self reflection. This is a great thing, it’s the first step toward you achieving growth, improvement and ultimately better results.

The value of investing in your own professional development is clear. I encourage you to take the time to devise your plan and you will achieve fantastic results.

Filed Under: Professional Development, SQLServerCentral Syndication, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career Progression, Community, Goals, Mentoring, Reading, Training

Get Your Ass to PASS!

June 20, 2012 by John Sansom 7 Comments

This year there are to be no excuses, and I mean it. You know what I’m talking about. There’s always some reason why you can’t go to the PASS Summit, why you can’t make it this time around. Maybe the timing is just not quite right, you can’t get the time off work, maybe there’s […]

Filed Under: Professional Development, SQLServerCentral Syndication, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career, Community, Events, SQLPass

What I Will Do For You in 2012

January 9, 2012 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

Many of you have first hand experience of our phenomenal sql community (affectionately labelled the #sqlfamily). Your first encounter with it may have been quite subtle. Perhaps you were surprised by the generosity and willingness with which help can be found? Maybe it was that first SQL Saturday you attended? However you first experienced the […]

Filed Under: SQL Server Community, SQLServerCentral Syndication, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Community, Goals

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