I was inspired to write this after reading a post from Dave Mason regarding breaking up with Big Tech companies. Yet again I haven't wrote for some time, my last post was about the release of SQL Server 2022 which I felt was rather underwhelming and certainly not helped by some of the issues with it.
It also came at a funny time in my career. For anyone who doesn't know me I've worked with SQL Server for many years and from my own perspective have had quite a remarkable career when I think back to my early days dabbling with MS Access. What followed those early days was a long journey developing and honing my skills after completely by accident falling into the wonderful world of SQL Server overnight, and it became my dedication.
But a couple of years ago things changed. At the time I was an avid blogger and occasional presenter who lived and breathed SQL Server as anyone who knows me well enough would testify. Unfortunately there were some things going on in my personal life which meant I had to stop a lot of those activities. I was still working but the blogs and everything else just stopped, and weirdly after a short time I realised that I didn't really miss any of it either. I definitely tried; I wrote a few blog posts here and there, I even put together a couple of new sessions but just couldn't seem to get that spark back to really get back into it.
Which leads me to the breaking up part...and I have to start off by saying, SQL Server...it's not you, it's me!
I know, I rolled my eyes a little too but I'm going to be even more cliché, deep down I do still love [working with] SQL Server, we've been in a relationship for a long time but over time things and people change. There's just something that isn't there any more and to be truthful, it's time I moved on.
OK, that's enough of the technical equivalent of a Dear John letter as I was getting emotional.
The fact is that whilst I'll still be working with SQL for sure I realised I do actually miss the blogging, the speaking and the rest of it, it's just the subject matter that I had grown tired of and so it's time for something a little different.
Over the last couple of years I've been working with some different platforms and technologies; AWS, GCP, PostgreSQL, Python and a whole bunch of other stuff. It's not just me of course, this is how the technical landscape is these days so if anything it was very natural I suppose to diversify my technical knowledge and skill set. But when it comes to really getting into a technology I'm shifting focus specifically towards some of those areas and reigniting what I once had, and it's been a while since I said this, but I can't wait to see how things develop :-)
