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CodeWeek 2025: Kleine Köpfe, große Ideen – IT trifft Kinderherzen in Neudenau-Herbolzheim

CodeWeek 2025: Kleine Köpfe, große Ideen – IT trifft Kinderherzen in Neudenau-Herbolzheim

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english version Zum dritten Mal hieß es bei uns in Neudenau-Herbolzheim: Bühne frei für die CodeWeek! Und wieder durften wir sechs neugierige Kinder begrüßen, die sich voller Energie und Entdeckergeist auf unsere IT-Workshops stürzten. Ein besonderes Highlight: Ein Mädchen reiste extra aus Stuttgart an – das nenne ich Einsatz! 🚌💻 Magie trifft Technik: Thi Hoai Linh Lai und die zauberhaften Programmierabenteuer Meine Frau Thi Hoai Linh Lai hatte ein ganz besonderes Programm im Gepäck: „Zauberhafte Programmierabenteuer mit Anna und Elsa“….

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Review SQLdays: Keynote SQL 2025 – Thorsten Kansy

Review SQLdays: Keynote SQL 2025 – Thorsten Kansy

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07.10.25 Thorsten Kansy SQLdays Konferenz English Version Als Thorsten Kansy 1993 mit SQL Server 4.2 loslegte, war das der Beginn einer langen Reise durch Features, Trends und gelegentliche Irrwege. SQL Server war – wie Thorsten so schön sagt – “ein Kind der Zeit”. Was gerade hip war, wurde eingebaut. Was sich später als Irrweg entpuppte, wurde… naja, irgendwann wieder entfernt oder ignoriert. Dann kam JSON. 2016 wurde es halbherzig eingebaut – als VARCHAR. Ein paar Funktionen, aber keine echte Liebe….

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Reflections on my session at PASS Data Community Summit 2022

Reflections on my session at PASS Data Community Summit 2022

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It has been just on week since PASS Data Community Summit took place in Seattle and online. I attended from home but more importantly delivered my own brand-new session there (wooohooo!). Here I would like to quickly share some reflections on it. Summit It was an awesome experience being able to present at Summit. I visited the event in Seattle in 2019 in person. To be honest with you dear reader….being the first time in the US didn’t blow my…

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Continue your learning journey in SQL

Continue your learning journey in SQL

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It has already been three weeks since the end of the Code First Girls course on Data & SQL. We have celebrated the achievements on LinkedIn. I am greatly impressed by the final projects of my students. This article is for them to show possibilities how to continue learning SQL and excel as well as for others who have just begun their journey with SQL. It is well-known that practice is essential for mastering any new subject learnt. One way…

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Attending SQLBits as a virtual participant

Attending SQLBits as a virtual participant

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This week has been great for me as a learning opportunity by going to SQLBits for the first time ever. Well…actually not going but logging in from home watching online. So as SQLBits as all good things is petering out/comes to an end time to do a personal summary. Blogging I aimed to to a summary blog post for each day. However eagle eyed readers will notice that I stopped on Thursday which was the first conference day. Reason for…

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Reflections on being a SQL teacher for the first time
Reflections on being a SQL teacher for the first time

Reflections on being a SQL teacher for the first time

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I am currently volunteering as an instructor in a course on Data & SQL by Code First Girls. Read more about it here. Yesterday has been my first round as a teacher for a whole module. Here are some reflections on it and what I learned from it. TLDR: Don’t put too much content into one session…time catches up sooner as you think. Also allow some extra time for tech problems and Q&A. Be sure to have a dry run…

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Proud to be an instructor in the Code First Girl’s class on Data & SQL

Proud to be an instructor in the Code First Girl’s class on Data & SQL

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I have the great pleasure and honor to be a volunteer for Code First Girls. This is a UK based non profit organization with the mission to encourage young women to pursue a job in the Tech sector by giving them foundamentals in relevant skills such as programming or (in my case) SQL and Databases. I have been given the opportunity by Experian to volunteer in that course and share my expertise as a data professional. What does that mean…

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SQLdays 2021 Erding: Zusammenfassung

SQLdays 2021 Erding: Zusammenfassung

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Note: This blog post is in German as it is about a German conference and I expect mainly German readers. Moreover I have to admit it is easier to write German early in the morning than english :-P. Anyway feel free to run it through google translate if you are non-german-speaking and interested in the content. Wow…endlich mal wieder ein Blogeintrag nach langer Zeit. Ich finds zwar ganz gut, wenn man nicht immer was zu sagen haben muss aber zugegen…

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