Earlier this month, I hosted the 61st occurrence of the monthly TSQL-Tuesday blogging party. With a topic of “Giving Back”, it had a great turnout (27 party-goers). As I read through all of their posts, I noticed that many are planning to give back in pretty predictable ways – but there are some pretty surprising ways also. And this ended up giving me a way to do this (overdue) TSQL-Tuesday wrap-up: With this being the Christmas season, let’s do this wrap-up to the tune of “12 days of Christmas”.

 

For the new year, the SQL Community will give back: By having a more active blogging presence (19)

For the new year, the SQL Community will give back: By being involved as an organizer (in some capacity) of a local user group (11) or of a SQL Saturday (7) (18)

For the new year, the SQL Community will give back: By presenting at user groups, SQL Saturday’s , SQL Bits, PASS, SQL Intersections or other SQL events (17)

For the new year, the SQL Community will give back: By volunteering at user groups, SQL Saturdays or PASS (7)

For the new year, the SQL Community will give back: By sharing their knowledge (6)

For the new year, the SQL Community will give back: By writing books, articles, or white papers (4)

For the new year, the SQL Community will give back: By becoming more active on Twitter (notably on #sqlhelp) (4)

For the new year, the SQL Community will give back: By hosting a TSQL-Tuesday (3)

For the new year, the SQL Community will give back: By participating in their local user group (3)

For the new year, the SQL Community will give back: By helping others in whatever ways that they can (3)

For the new year, the SQL Community will give back: By helping people in online forums (2)

For the new year, the SQL Community will give back: By producing videos to help others (2)

This really turned out to encourage me more than I expected, and I really hope that everyone can do all that they hope.

And now, let’s recognize all of the party-goers with links to their awesome posts!

Warwick Rudd
Rob Farley
Garland MacNeill
Ben Miller
Paul Randal
Boris Hristov
Chris Yates
Angela Henry
Jim Dorame
Steve Thompson
Jason Brimhall
Kenneth Fisher
Andy Yun
Mike Donnelly
Lori Edwards
Rob Sewell
Andy Levy
Aaron Bertrand
Randy Knight
Catherine Wilhelmson
Ken Wilson
Wayne Sheffield
Dave Clary
Robert Pearl
Mike Tutor
Allen Kinsel
Malathi Mahadevan