Ok, another personal post - you know the rule - don't care don't read. 15 minutes of fame? That was the 1968 phrase of the american artist Andy Warhol. I guess that now it's my turn. I can hear some of my readers thinking, yeah, yeah - keep bragging. To quote Wesley Snipes in the unfogetable movie White Men Can't Jump "I don't mean to brag but I'm the greatest".

8 Years ago I was talking with a friend about our future careers. We dreamed of becoming Microsoft Certified Professionals. The dream seemed so hard to make it real.

8 years later:

  • I have over 14 MCP exams passed
  • I am MCT since 2002
  • I was the 4th time awarded as MVP
  • Wrote 4 Books, lots of articles and other kind of SQL Server content
  • I was Advisory Council Member for Culminis EMEA
  • I was one of co-founders of ITBoard - a community having 1400 members now
  • I raised the Romanian SQL Server User Group from thin air - made it the first Romanian chapter of PASS (with me the president of course)
  • I introduced the Microsoft Influencer program in Romania and got nominated as Influencers 6 of my user group members

And the beat (list) keeps going on.

 

Ok, why do I brag now? Dave is to blame because he by called me "names" - There are even SQL Heroes in Romania!
Who's the SQL Hero? Me of course :)

And another reason I make it to the SQL Server hall of fame, at least my blog did: MSDN SQL Server - Blogs and TechNet SQL Server - Blogs.

 

So for 15 minutes I am famous or the other version "I am famous for 15 people" (according to Google Analytics  every month 3500 people read my blog so ...) and I wish you the same.

 

Oh, and since I mentioned White Men Can't Jump - last year I participated at the Streeball Arena event and guess the team name? White Men of course. 5 games - 3 wins. That's good for some old boys :) (I am #4).