Voice of the DBA

Category: Blog

  • Daily Coping 18 Jul 2022

    I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag.

    Today’s tip is to shift your mood by doing something you really enjoy.

    A different type of tip for a Monday. Usually Friday is when you might aim to do something fun for the weekend. However, let’s shake things up on Monday.

    What do I really enjoy? Time with my wife and kids, coaching, yoga, and snowboarding. July in Colorado takes the last one out, but I do enjoy getting outside anyway. For this Monday, I’m going to schedule yoga for the evening.

    I do yoga regularly, but I’ve been practicing in the mornings almost exclusively the last few months. There is a great teacher that I enjoy, and I’m scheduling a Monday night to change up my routine and enjoy time with a person that makes me happy.

  • Daily Coping 15 Jul 2022

    I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag.

    Today’s tip is to add to your list of joys (or make one).

    I wrote about making a list of joys a few weeks ago. I added this tip in the list at that time. If you didn’t make a list, do that now.

    I’m adding a new one to my list. My wife and I are going to the Winter Park Jazz Festival this weekend. We’ll stay up in the mountains for a few days and enjoy listening to music and relaxing. It will be a little drive back and forth from our place up there, but we get to chill in our own, comfortable space, so it’s worth it.

    Getting away with my wife is a new item for my list of joys.

  • Daily Coping 14 Jul 2022

    I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag.

    Today’s tip is to pause, breathe, feel your feet firmly on the ground.

    It’s been a couple hectic weeks. Despite getting the basics right more often, stress has been a little higher and there are a lot of things to tackle around the ranch.

    This is a good reminder to stop, take a break, and breathe.

    Yoga has been great for this, as well as remembering to ground myself. I do that physically, but it also helps my spirit.

  • Register as a Pre-Con Speaker

    I’ve been debating how we better organize speaker resources and one of the things I proposed was a pre-con registry of speakers. I did so at the sqlsaturday blog.

    There was a little debate, but then lo and behold, Rob and Daniel built this at callfordataspeakers.com. There is a precon page now at: https://callfordataspeakers.com/precon

    Rob wrote this up, but you can register yourself, and I’d encourage precon speakers do to so. You can find instructions in this repo.

    I’d also encourage anyone that knows of precon speakers to send them a note to register themselves for organizers who might need to find a precon speaker.