That conference coming up is worth it.

@data-wit.bsky.social

"We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves" - Marie Curie

A brilliant woman who was always doubted for being so is one of my greatest inspirations to never let my success be dulled by others’ insecurities. Shine bright, my friends.
#datawit #celebratingwomen

T-SQL Tuesday #196: Sight Unseen, One Foot Forward

A long time ago, my dad made me read a book called "Who Moved My Cheese?" which talks about change and how uncomfortable or frustrating it can be. It's a phrase I use a lot. "Don't move my cheese." "Someone moved your cheese." I get some odd looks…

T-SQL Tuesday #195: That Time AI Did My Job

AI Can Teach You

No Map Required: Geospatial Analytics Directly in Your Data Warehouse, Tue, Feb 3, 2026, 5:00 PM | Meetup The February Ohio North Database Training user group meeting will be held on **February 3rd, 2025 at 5:00PM**. This will be a **HYBRID** event and we will be joined in pers

Join @ondt.bsky.social in person or online today 2/3/26 for a great in person talk with David Pickering. We'll have tasty food and drink for those brave souls who defy the weather to hang out. At @improving.bsky.social Independence
#sqlfamily #clevelanddatarocks

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Monthly meetups are in full swing in Cleveland, OH! Come present with us.
#sqlfamily #presenting #datacommunity #meetup

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T-SQL Tuesday #193 Ghosts of Jobs Past & Future

Self Family Work My first job out of college involved relocating an untold number of times to unfamiliar places and meeting an incredible number of people, all for a pretty price. And I did. I moved to half a dozen states, met hundreds of people,…

T-SQL Tuesday #191 Normalizing Comma Data

If you've escaped string parsing thus far, count thyself lucky. I've seen some numbing scripts from pre-SQL Server 2016 when STRING_SPLIT was introduced. I think the fact this month's T-SQL Tuesday is entirely on string parsing says enough about how many…

Parameter Sniffing 101: Why Does SQL Get A Bad Plan, Tue, Jun 3, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup The May Ohio North Database Training user group meeting will be held on **June 3rd, 2025 at 5:00PM**. This will be a **HYBRID** event with **Jay Rasch** joining us in perso

Join us for our hybrid event June 3rd 6pm EST. Have you ever wondered why your queries are sometimes fast and sometimes slow without any clear reason?
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Interested in #Speaking for the #SqlCommunity? Bonus points if you're local or willing to travel to #Cleveland. Opportunities open all year. Use the sessionize link to submit, or reach out directly to info@ondt.org.
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#PassSummit2024 is underway, and it's already been a wonderful experience. Yesterday was my first "Hi Courtney, I've heard your name and wanted to introduce myself" and today was my first "I've heard your name before." Cloud nine. If you're at PASS feel free to flag me down. I'd love to meet you.

Looking forward to meeting with people via the experts clinic during PASS. I'm available for Accidental DBA, Performance Tuning, and DEI as a woman in tech. I can't wait! Sign-up here with me or another great colleague.
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I know it's early, but we're looking to build out a framework for our first non-SQL Saturday specific event. Your submissions are much appreciated.

Enhancing On-Prem and Multi-Cloud SQL Instances with Azure Arc, Tue, Aug 6, 2024, 5:00 PM | Meetup The August Ohio North Database Training user group meeting will be held on **Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 at 5:00PM**. This will be a **HYBRID** event and our featured speaker

August meetup has been posted. Join us in person or online via Teams to see Ben Weissman talk about #AzureArc.

#SQL #Cloud

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Excited to present at #PassDataSummit this fall! Last year was a great experience, and this year can only be better. Couldn't have done it without my support network.

Rarely here, but looking for some experts in the #Oracle #MySQL or #MongoDB space to work with the Redgate monitoring team. Reach out if you want to do a little research and give feedback.

Call for speakers: SQL Saturday Minnesota 2024 - us7.campaign-archive.com/

Call for speakers: Cleveland Data Rocks - us7.campaign-archive.com/

That post is the exact reason I remembered to put our call for speakers, so thank you

Cleveland Data Rocks '25: Call for Speakers Cleveland Data Rocks 2025 is a premier conference dedicated to all things data platform. We are excited to bring together industry experts, data enthu...

#CallForSpeakers is officially open for the inaugural #CLEDataRocks, February 8th, 2025.

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RSVP on Meetup and follow us on BlueSky for future updates.
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Courtney Woolum - Reworking Indexes to Support an Evolving Application

Check out my session on how I identify problematic table indexes through usage stats and application context.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3EO...

Thanks to @sqlgene.com for mentoring me for my first major presentation.

Would you pay 20$ to attend a local data conference? (This sql sat but more open to other stacks like ai oracle Postgres pbi etc)

www.newstarsofdata.com/speakers/

Come check out my first big presentation with New Stars Of Data, Friday April 4th, 10:45 EST.
"Reworking Indexes to Support an Evolving Application", perfect for the accidental DBA or anyone dealing with a cowboy heavy database.

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Great website and Facebook page.
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They shared their #salary survey results collected for 2023. Take a look! "It might surprise you."
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Regardless of having any mentorship to give, I still have a touchpoint every other week to make sure I'm on the right track with work priorities, to get heads up on future projects, or if I need help. If we cancel, we cancel, but it's there if we need it.

I appreciate the frequent scheduled touchpoints with my manager. People should know when to course correct as soon as possible, not a year after the fact. That only breeds contempt.

Turns out, knowing how you best organize your thoughts makes presentation building much easier.