{"id":128,"date":"2015-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/ding-level-3-in-my-epic-life-quest"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:52:06","slug":"ding-level-3-in-my-epic-life-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/19\/ding-level-3-in-my-epic-life-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"Ding Level 3 in My Epic Life Quest &#8211; SQL Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Wahooo!<\/h2>\n<p>Today is a day to celebrate. I just realized that I have achieved level 3 in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/my-epic-life-quest\/\">Epic Life Quest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned as I work my way to level 4. I plan to include being a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate and much more, in that\u00a0level.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/level-up-scott-pilgram.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/level-up-scott-pilgram.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Level 3 Quests (Completed before Aug. 11th, 2015)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DING.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DING.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Secure a $<<em>amount hidden from public<\/em>>\u00a0annual salary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speak at a user group meeting (Architecting Availability Groups, <a href=\"http:\/\/fairfield.sqlpass.org\/\">FairfieldPASS<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speak at a SQL Saturday (Architecting Availability Groups,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlsaturday.com\/386\/EventHome.aspx\">#SQLSAT386<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Certification achieved \u2013 Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (70-461). Completed January, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete my first consulting job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammer-derik-172x140.png\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>Written by Derik Hammer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/\">SQL Hammer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Derik is a data professional focusing on Microsoft SQL Server. His passion focuses around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/category\/high-availability\/\">high-availability<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/category\/general\/disaster-recovery\/\">disaster recovery<\/a>, continuous integration, and automated maintenance. his experience has spanned long-term database administration, consulting, and\u00a0entrepreneurial ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Derik gives the SQL community credit for plugging the gaps in his knowledge when he was a junior DBA and, now that his skills have matured, started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/\">SQLHammer.com<\/a> as one small way to give back and continue the cycle of shared learning.<\/p>\n<p>Derik is the owner and lead author of SQL Hammer, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/\">Microsoft SQL Server resource<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/\">http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com<\/a>. Follow Derik on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SQLHammer\">Twitter<\/a> for <strong>SQL tips and chat<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wahooo! Today is a day to celebrate. I just realized that I have achieved level 3 in my Epic Life Quest. Stay tuned as I work my way to level 4. I plan to include being a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate and much more, in that\u00a0level. Level 3 Quests (Completed before Aug. 11th, 2015) Secure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}