Why Do I Have A Blog?

It’s 2017 and blogs aren’t cool anymore. Why am I making one now? Here are some reasons:

• I want to have some sort of (professional) web presence.
• I can use Jekyll and learn more about git.
• It will encourage me to create a record of what I know, and I’ll learn more when I take the time to carefully write it down.
• It will encourage me to seek out new topics and learn about them.
• I’ve learned a lot from the SQL Server community, and I’d like to contribute.
• The stuff that I’m interested in isn’t always extensively covered by the really good SQL Server blogs. There’s very detailed coverage of DBA topics (two great examples here and here), but I’m interested in other topics as well.
• I also do Oracle database work, and there’s not much out there to demystify Oracle. I’m going to be learning it better and hopefully what I write up will be helpful for others who haven’t been using Oracle since the 80’s.

That’s it for now!