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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Show Off Your SQL Server Spirit With Community Badges</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2013/01/16/show-off-your-sql-server-spirit-with-community-badges.aspx</link><description>Being part of the SQL Server community is a fantastic thing! Not only do you have the technical support of a global community, but you also have the strength the SQL Server community behind you offline as well! We know the power of the community – we</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)</generator><item><title>re: Show Off Your SQL Server Spirit With Community Badges</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2013/01/16/show-off-your-sql-server-spirit-with-community-badges.aspx#3548960</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:51:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3548960</guid><dc:creator>Md Shihab Uddin</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I will add it to my blog today ..yeah ...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3548960" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Show Off Your SQL Server Spirit With Community Badges</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2013/01/16/show-off-your-sql-server-spirit-with-community-badges.aspx#3546587</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:09:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3546587</guid><dc:creator>girl scout</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;IMHO .... &amp;nbsp; lol&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;these &amp;#39;badges&amp;#39; and the comments of some remind me of girl scouts and boy scouts....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;** Are these scout MERIT BADGES?? **&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if someone wants to download and flaunt them all, well then, we get that person for what s/he is (although there are darn few SHEs out here, but some like Gail -- Well just WOW)....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if someone else wants to make them merit badges and earn them by Blogging points, well that&amp;#39;s OK too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if we can do anything silly that makes someone (including ourselves) smile, then why not DO IT???&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;personally, they&amp;#39;re all quite silly . . . and meant by MSFT to draw attention to their products...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FINE . &amp;nbsp; Just give us better code examples and I for one will be swimmingly happy and geeky.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ps TRY without cheating/looking -- how many of you actually know what the word GEEK is derived from ?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3546587" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Show Off Your SQL Server Spirit With Community Badges</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2013/01/16/show-off-your-sql-server-spirit-with-community-badges.aspx#3546583</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:32:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3546583</guid><dc:creator>SQL Geek</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Just like peas and carrots... SQL Server and Business Intel go hand and hand. Check out &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;www.SqlServerJobs.com for targeted and focused results in your SQL Server skills.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SQL Server Pros are in demand&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3546583" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Show Off Your SQL Server Spirit With Community Badges</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2013/01/16/show-off-your-sql-server-spirit-with-community-badges.aspx#3546504</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:05:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3546504</guid><dc:creator>Drew</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;We need at least one BI realated badge!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3546504" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Show Off Your SQL Server Spirit With Community Badges</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2013/01/16/show-off-your-sql-server-spirit-with-community-badges.aspx#3546446</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:23:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3546446</guid><dc:creator>Boris Hristov</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to find these in bigger resolution?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3546446" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Show Off Your SQL Server Spirit With Community Badges</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2013/01/16/show-off-your-sql-server-spirit-with-community-badges.aspx#3546424</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:26:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3546424</guid><dc:creator>Zoltán Horváth</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey, it&amp;#39;s funny :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You should continue issuing other badges! Please don&amp;#39;t forget other areas! :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3546424" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Show Off Your SQL Server Spirit With Community Badges</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2013/01/16/show-off-your-sql-server-spirit-with-community-badges.aspx#3546386</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:00:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3546386</guid><dc:creator>Ayyappan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I think these badges are not showing any achievement awards or something rewarding our work. So, Anyone who is truly interested in SQL Server can use this.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I recommend everyone to use this in there profile.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3546386" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Show Off Your SQL Server Spirit With Community Badges</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2013/01/16/show-off-your-sql-server-spirit-with-community-badges.aspx#3546379</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:42:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3546379</guid><dc:creator>vishal0soni</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;is there any criteria for who should be using what badge? otherwise anyone would just plug-in all of them for just show-off.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just an idea...can we use the badges that we earned in the technet profile page (for example, i have two silver + few bronze, : social.technet.microsoft.com/.../vishal0soni ). If we could use them on our profiles, that would be more interesting (Because we earned them by actually doing something, rather than just downloading and using them). :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3546379" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Show Off Your SQL Server Spirit With Community Badges</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2013/01/16/show-off-your-sql-server-spirit-with-community-badges.aspx#3546378</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:42:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3546378</guid><dc:creator>Vishal0soni</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;is there any criteria for who should be using what badge? otherwise anyone would just plug-in all of them for just show-off.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just an idea...can we use the badges that we earned in the technet profile page (for example, i have two silver + few bronze, : &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/vishal0soni/"&gt;social.technet.microsoft.com/.../vishal0soni&lt;/a&gt; ). If we could use them on our profiles, that would be more interesting (Because we earned them by actually doing something, rather than just downloading and using them). :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3546378" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Show Off Your SQL Server Spirit With Community Badges</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2013/01/16/show-off-your-sql-server-spirit-with-community-badges.aspx#3546302</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:58:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3546302</guid><dc:creator>Ayyappan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I take one for me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://SQLServerRider.wordpress.com"&gt;sqlserverrider.wordpress.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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