It’s been a while!
Excuses? Work, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, music composition duties. It's been a while since I've blogged. Well I haven't forgotten about SQL, in fact it's high on the priority list.
I've just received some new SQL books in the mail. It's time to have a go at some certifications again. 70-432 and 70-433, Database Implementation and Maintenance, and Database Design, respectively. Flicking through the books, there's so much I already know, but I've never actually been near SQL2008, so there's also some huge chunks that are absolute news to me.
I'm also starting a Masters of Information Technology at the University of New England, part-time by "distance education". My aim there is to broaden my knowledge of IT, being a person who "fell into" IT at work rather than doing an IT based degree first. The degree I completed in 1995 was a Bachelor of Science, majoring in microbiology and genetics. Now I'm a DBA. Go figure! Apparently it's not such a rare thing for your degree to not have a huge bearing on your career path anymore.
Well, anyhow, just wanted to let y'all know I'm still here. Catch you soon.
I've just received some new SQL books in the mail. It's time to have a go at some certifications again. 70-432 and 70-433, Database Implementation and Maintenance, and Database Design, respectively. Flicking through the books, there's so much I already know, but I've never actually been near SQL2008, so there's also some huge chunks that are absolute news to me.
I'm also starting a Masters of Information Technology at the University of New England, part-time by "distance education". My aim there is to broaden my knowledge of IT, being a person who "fell into" IT at work rather than doing an IT based degree first. The degree I completed in 1995 was a Bachelor of Science, majoring in microbiology and genetics. Now I'm a DBA. Go figure! Apparently it's not such a rare thing for your degree to not have a huge bearing on your career path anymore.
Well, anyhow, just wanted to let y'all know I'm still here. Catch you soon.