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What SQL Server Pros Can Get By Giving

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As the holidays approach, remember what SQL Server professionals can get by giving.

SQL Server folks are by nature a generous bunch: we share our knowledge reflexively to help out our fellow pros locally and globally.

If you have ever found a solution to a vexing problem by watching a SQL Server guru’s breakdown of a database fragmentation then you are a beneficiary of our communities giving spirit.

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Give Camps

• We don’t reserve that generosity just for fellow techies – as evidenced by Give Camps across the nation.

• Give Camp brings together technology pros for intensive weekend sessions that provide solutions for under-resources charities and non-profits.

• Wish lists are submitted & reviewed and then everyone gets together for a weekend, rolls up their sleeves, and builds finished solutions by the event’s conclusion.

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Give Camps

If you haven't participated in a Give Camp there are three reasons to do it:

1. You’ll help people.2. You’ll get to learn and improve

in a uniquely and intensely cooperative environment that you might not experience otherwise.

3. It’s exhilarating.This is what drew Colorado-based SQL Server developer, Gabe Villa, to become an organizer of Give Camp for the past 3 years. The most recent saw 20 volunteers serve 5 charities that wouldn’t have otherwise found infrastructure, budget, or talent to meet their needs.

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“There’s a lot of emotion, we started on Friday night with no solutions, worked the entire weekend, and were able to demo the solutions by lunchtime Sunday.”

– Gabe Villa

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One team put together a donor management solution for a community theater in Northern Colorado.

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Another executed a database system of valuation forms for a charity that mentors middle school-aged girls.

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SQL Server DBAs and developers alike got the tremendous rush of seeing how their time and talent can make a difference.

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They also get the learning and skills boost equivalent to a mini-conference, as well as a way to work fluidly and creatively.

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“There are no bosses, no management – teams come together organically to solve problems.”

– Villa

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From SQL Saturdays to Give Camps, chances are there is somebody out there who needs your knowledge.

This holiday season is a great time to reflect on how to share it – and be amazed at what we get back when we do.

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