Time to make my professional goals again for the new year. In conjunction with listing my new goals, I'll also talk about some of the goals for last year and how I fared.
Certification: Pass exam 70-453 in order to earn my MCITP: Database Administrator 2008. Bonus Goal: Pick another certification and take at least one exam for it. Server Admin? BI Developer? Database Developer??
Last year: I reached my goal of getting my MCITP: Database Administrator certification.
Blogging: Make at least one blog post a week. Move blog to a new site.
Last year: Didn't quite make the one blog post a week. I'm hoping to do better this year, starting now. It's only 52 posts, right?
Reading: One technology book a month.
Last year: Man, didn't hit this one either. Uh oh, I don't like where this review of last year is headed...
Technology: Focus on learning Powershell, SSIS, and SSAS.
Last year: Undefineable goal, but my early enthusiasm for Powershell really kind of died out as I didn't have any places to apply it at work. 2010 is starting out very differently, and I've already developed some automation scripts with Powershell for work, and I'm starting to recommend it for certain things to our developers as well.
Scripting: Write 1 script a week for my toolbox.
Last year: Tried this goal, and, by my count, I ended up with 74 new scripts, in both T-SQL and Powershell, that make my job easier. Hurray! I got one.
Learning: Attend 6 of the monthly local SQL Server user group meetings this year. Attend PASS Summit.
Last year: Yup, I did manage to attend my goal of 1 user group meeting last year, and I also attended the PASS Summit.
Volunteer: Donate some of my time to PASS, or to my local SQL Server User Group. I'm already slated to volunteer at SQL Saturday 31 in Chicago.
Last year: Didn't make it a goal, so this one's a new one.