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.