Wow, that's amazing! I've just started a blog at the Blogspot platform. Thanks Paul Randal for giving a boot. Nice idea to prove your interest in public speaking and sharing your ideas via blog. A couple of words about me. I have been working with MS SQL Server for 10 years, this is my primary skill. Also I had experience with Oracle, but this was far ago. English is not my native, so, please be tolerant to my grammar and writing :) Periodically I read articles from SQL bloggers, such as Paul, BrentOzar, Itzik Ben Gan, Pinal Dave and few more. Let me also share my respect to Dmitri Korotkevich and Kalen Delaney, whose books I found very deep, diving into SQL internals. Currently I'm managing a DB team of 10 people in a bank, and suddenly understand, I'm loosing my technical skills. I'm afraid, this is popular story for developers, started their manager's career. Also, I'd like to create a personal brand, and this post from NotYenBenGan is the first step. I d