Today is the last day of 2009 and this is my 1200th post! This year had been a wonderful year for me. I was actively involved with the community, and there were a lot of occasions where I could work along with IT professionals to resolve their issues in projects.
Today, as this is my 1200th post and last day of 2009, we will go over few but very important milestones of this year (of course, in my life).
Instead of longer list, I have decided to list only the most important events. Event listed event are in order of its occurrence and not necessarily ordered as their importance.
Top 7 Community and Personal Events
1) SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – Complete Wrapup of Microsoft MVP Summit 2009 Trip
2) SQLAuthority News – Summary of TechEd India 2009 – A Grand Event
3) SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Energy Event with Rushabh Mehta – May 20, 2009
4) SQLAuthority News – Business Intelligence Training Roadshow August September 2009
5) SQLAuthority News – Community TechDays in Ahmedabad – A Successful Event
6) SQLAuthority News – Notes of Excellent Experience at SQL PASS 2009 Summit, Seattle
7) SQLAuthority News – Notes from TechDays 2009 at Infosys, Bangalore
Top 5 Personal Events
1) SQLAuthority News – 1000th Article Milestone – 8 Millions Views – Solid Quality Mentors
2) SQLAuthority News – MVP Award Renewed
3) SQLAuthority News – Baby SQLAuthority is here!
4) SQL Authority News – Advanced T-SQL with Itzik Ben-Gan – Solid Quality Mentors
5) SQLAuthority News – An Year of Personal Events – A Life Outside SQL
Top 7 Blog Articles by Readers’ Choice (In order of Popularity)
1) SQL SERVER – 2008 – Interview Questions and Answers Complete List Download
2) SQL SERVER – Insert Data From One Table to Another Table – INSERT INTO SELECT – SELECT INTO TABLE
3) SQL SERVER – Insert Multiple Records Using One Insert Statement – Use of UNION ALL
4) SQL SERVER – 2005 – Create Script to Copy Database Schema and All The Objects – Stored Procedure, Functions, Triggers, Tables, Views, Constraints and All Other Database Objects
5) SQL SERVER – Import CSV File Into SQL Server Using Bulk Insert – Load Comma Delimited File Into SQL Server
6) SQL SERVER – Retrieve Current Date Time in SQL Server CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, GETDATE(), {fn NOW()}
7) SQL SERVER – TRIM() Function – UDF TRIM()
Year 2009 was great year and I wish all of you that next year of 2010 brings more prosperity and happiness in all of yours life.
Reference : Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)
9 Comments. Leave new
congratulations Pinal. hope to see milestone of 1500th Article soon.
Congratulations Pinal , Keep going on..
wish you a happy new year to you and family, have a great year ahead…
Congrats Pinal….-Shan
Hi Pinal,
Wishing you and your family a happy and prosperous new year 2010. Wishing you the very best in your future endeavours with blogging and SQL Server.
Ramdas
Its great year for you and for me too..that we had good time at MVP Summit 2009.. i wish and hope you reach greater hights in 2010 as well…and see you soon at the MVP Summit 2010…..
Happy new year to the SQLAuthority Family….
Hi Pinal,
Thanq very much for your efforts in helping the community.
I have 2 years of experience as SQL server database developer.Now i would like to take some certification on SQL Server2k5.
Please help and guide me in undergoing this certification.
Pinal, you’re the man!
Hi Pinal,
Congrats for presenting 1200th article
Hi,
Super your 120000th article