[Ended] TiDB Community Second 1024 Programmer's Wish Festival (2): Share Your Wishes and Take Home 10+ Exclusive Merchandise and 24 Limited Edition Blind Box Hoodies!

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Original topic: 【已结束】TiDB 社区第二届 1024 程序员心愿节（2）说出你的心愿，带走 10+ 重磅周边，24 件限定盲盒卫衣！

| username: Billmay表妹

1024 Festival is coming! Do you remember last year’s 【 TiDB Community 】First 1024 Programmer’s Wish Festival, Your Wish, We Help You Realize?
It’s time for the emotional part again!

Every important festival, I always report some progress and situation of the TiDB community to everyone, and this time is no exception.

From the establishment of asktug in 2019 to now, the community data report is as follows:
Total Topics: 17263
Total Replies: 103220
Total Solutions: 9480
Total Users: 24264

You are all a part of the thriving community.

Thanks also to our moderators! @jansu-dev @啦啦啦啦啦 @小王同学Plus @Lucien-卢西恩 @数据小黑 @Meditator
@h5n1 @songxuecheng @hey-hoho @HHHHHHULK @xfworld @MyronWang @db_user @苏州刘三枪 @Kongdom

Total Replies: 19317
Total Hearts Received: 10734
Total Solutions (All Categories): 2616
Total Technical Articles: 72

A few days ago, our first wave of TiDB Community Second 1024 Programmer’s Wish Festival Part 1 Course Certification Wish Pool also received a lot of wishes!

Do you think this year’s 1024 Festival is just like this?

Of course not!

So next comes the highlight! The second 1024 Programmer’s Wish Festival is here! Your wish, we help you realize!

First, let’s start with the first wave of benefits!

Event 1: Share Your Story with TiDB & TiDB Community

Draw 24 people to send the 2022 P Society limited edition 1024 Programmer’s Day blind box hoodie!

If the number of people sharing their stories with TiDB is less than 24, each person is guaranteed to receive a blind box hoodie as a reward!

How to Participate in the Blind Box Hoodie

Share your story with TiDB & TiDB Community, you can talk about when you learned about TiDB, what you experienced during that time, what difficulties you encountered, what impressed you the most, if you wrote an article about it, you can directly copy the article to the comment section to participate in the event!

ps: The story should be at least 200+ words, a one-sentence story will not participate in this round of the draw!

Event 2: Wish Fulfillment Event

What are your wishes for this year’s 1024 Programmer’s Day?

Leave your wish in the comment section (each person can make a wish once + secret code wish message once), for example:

1. What is your wish?

  • What TiDB community peripherals do you want to get?
  • What gift do you want to receive?
  • Want to find a partner?
  • Want a promotion and a raise?
  • Pass PCTA/PCTP?
  • What features do you hope TiDB will add?
  • What are your expectations for the TiDB community?

2. What support do you hope to get from the community?

  • Hope to hold offline events in your area?
  • Want to get the opportunity to communicate with technical experts online?
  • Want to get the opportunity to communicate face-to-face offline?
  • Want to visit PingCAP company?
  • What do you hope the community will provide? For example, free PCTA/PCTP/PCSD exams? (Wish Festival part 1 will give out 10 spots)

3. What interesting, beneficial, and meaningful activities do you hope the community will do?

  • For example: matchmaking events, regional offline meetups, etc.?

As long as you want, as long as you say it, you can make a wish, what if it comes true!

Wish Fulfillment Instructions

We will fulfill the wishes of some TiDBers based on the feasibility of the wishes, the more hearts :heart: received, the easier the wish will be fulfilled!

Wish Selection

We will select:

  1. The wish that received the most hearts :heart:
  2. The most interesting wish
  3. The most creative wish
  4. The most meaningful wish

And give out: TiDB Community limited edition (backpack + shoulder bag) double bag reward!

Secret Code Wish Draw

Leave a message # Xiaomi Monitor Hanging Lamp #

We will draw 2 TiDBers to give a TiDB community customized (Xiaomi) eye-protection monitor hanging lamp worth 2000 points!

Leave a message # I want the 2022 new backpack #

We will draw 2 TiDBers to give a 2022 new backpack worth 1800 points!

Leave a message # I want the cassette power bank #

We will draw 2 TiDBers to give a TiDB cassette power bank worth 1500 points!

Leave a message # I want the new shoulder bag #

We will draw 2 TiDBers to give a TiDB new shoulder bag (can hold a laptop, with thickened and widened shoulder strap) worth 1300 points!

Leave a message # I want the thermos cup #

We will draw 3 TiDBers to give a TiDB thermos cup worth 1200 points!

Secret Code Prizes

TiDB Community Customized (Xiaomi) Eye-Protection Monitor Hanging Lamp

2022 New Backpack

Cassette Power Bank

2022 TiDB New Shoulder Bag (can hold a laptop, with thickened and widened shoulder strap)

TiDB Limited Edition Thermos Cup

Comment Rewards

Participate in the event by leaving your story with TiDB/TiDB Community or your wish to get 100 points, 100 experience points.

Wish Deadline

October 24, 2022

Lucky Star Announcement Time

October 30, 2022

Promise me! On October 24, 2022! No overtime

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| username: 数据小黑 | Original post link

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| username: ShawnYan | Original post link

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| username: xfworld | Original post link

We Will Eventually Meet in a Parallel World

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| username: Kongdom | Original post link

My Story with TiDB - A Belated Monologue

Preface: This is a belated monologue, so long overdue that I have forgotten when I received the invitation, just as I don’t remember how I started with TiDB.

Main Text: As a steadfast SQL SERVER user, for at least seven or eight years after starting work, I silently accompanied SQL SERVER, whether it was a small ordering system for a sales meeting or a large ERP system covering multiple business formats for thousands of stores. I thought it would always be this way, just like the bright tomorrow after dawn.
Until one late night in July 2019, a night of unbearable loneliness. For the first time, it was truly the first time, I switched from SQL SERVER to TiDB. Before that, my understanding of TiDB was limited to it being just a database, nothing more. At that time, the company leadership chose TiDB among many databases because the framework was microservices, so TiDB had 8 databases, whereas the previous SQL SERVER had only one, a typical monolithic service database. Since TiDB is compatible with MySQL but not with SQL SERVER, the official switching tool couldn’t be used, so we had to find our own way. In the end, we chose Kettle as the tool for switching data between heterogeneous databases (PS: Speaking of Kettle, I seem to owe a TUG colleague an article on Kettle, laugh-cry). Everything started from scratch, so the days preparing for the switch were painful and hard to endure, especially needing to translate a large number of stored procedures and custom functions into the program. The past is unbearable to look back on, the old feelings should not be lingered on… Returning to that wonderful night, when everyone completed the switch step by step, the system started running as expected, yes, it started running normally. At that moment, everything was worth it, at that moment, I developed an inexplicable fondness for TiDB. It was a kind of solitary joy, like the delight of reading poetry, a feeling that quietly infiltrates like the night rain.
Time came to April 6, 2020, and I proudly became a member of TUG.

Epilogue: My story with TiDB is far from over; it has just begun~

Some people walk to a different beat, because they hear the drumbeat from afar— Thoreau, “Walden”
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| username: db_user | Original post link

This is a story that seems short but is actually quite long.

Origin:
My connection with TiDB began when I joined this company. At that time, I wasn’t very familiar with TiDB; I only knew that goInception’s parsing rules were written based on TiDB. The company already had an AP business using TiDB, but it was managed by my operations leader at the time. As a relatively young DBA, it was naturally my duty to take over this database that I didn’t yet understand. Here, I must thank my previous leader, who played a significant role in guiding me to learn TiDB quickly.

Elevation:
My deeper connection with TiDB started with a moderator recruitment event in the community, initiated by my cousin. With the fearless attitude of a newcomer, I resolutely participated in the recruitment and joined the moderator group. Initially, I thought my modest technical skills would suffice, but I soon realized that wasn’t the case. I found that there were three types of people in this group:

  1. Experts
  2. Experts who claim they are not experts
  3. Myself
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    I learned a lot from the conversations with these experts and attended various online and offline TiDB meetings. I also met my cousin and the experts in person, gaining a lot of knowledge.

Love is like you shining alone in the brilliant galaxy. I hope I can also leave a subtle mark in the vast codebase of TiDB. As long as life continues, my story with TiDB has no end.

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| username: Billmay表妹 | Original post link

Why can’t I open the link to your column?

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| username: ealam_小羽 | Original post link

I’m sorry, but I can’t access external content such as the URL or image you provided. If you can provide the text you need translated, I’d be happy to help.

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| username: Ming | Original post link

Since joining the company, I have officially started working with TiDB. Before this, I didn’t know much about TiDB. It was only after joining the company that I spent most of my time learning about TiDB. Previously, I was just studying and doing daily work without much interaction. It wasn’t until I encountered TiDB that I felt the joy of learning through the community.

At first, I only checked the community to see if there were similar cases to the problems I encountered, which was very convenient. As I learned more, I began to enjoy the community atmosphere. (Posting questions and getting patient answers, understanding how experts handle issues, helping others solve problems, expanding my own thinking, and feeling a sense of happiness.)

This feeling is wonderful. After experiencing it a couple of times, I realized that technology is not a boring thing. It gives me a strong sense of participation and achievement. Now, I not only search for problems in the community but also get to know experts through communication, expand my thinking, and share what I have learned, which brings me great joy.

Of course, there is still a significant gap in both knowledge accumulation and writing skills. I hope to improve myself here and grow through communication. (After all, I’m still young, almost a post-2000s generation: see_no_evil:)

I hope to learn more related knowledge and improve my writing skills in the future.

Alright, I couldn’t figure out the format, please forgive me: see_no_evil:

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| username: Ming | Original post link

Wishing myself to pass the PCTP (and get rich this year as well:relaxed:)

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| username: hey-hoho | Original post link

Wishing our team gets better and better.

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| username: songxuecheng | Original post link

Wishing there is no pandemic.

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| username: itfarmer | Original post link

#I want the new 2022 backpack#

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| username: tracy0984 | Original post link

#I want the Xiaomi monitor hanging light#

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| username: cs58_dba | Original post link

#I want the 2022 new backpack#

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| username: Myth | Original post link

Wishing to get a TiDB coffee mug, really want it, but don’t have the ability to get it :sob:

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| username: Myth | Original post link

#I want a thermos#

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| username: 望海崖2084 | Original post link
  1. Wish the wedding at the end of the month goes smoothly, #Xiaomi Monitor Light#
  2. Hope for free PCSD in the community
  3. Meet offline in Changsha
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| username: Hacker007 | Original post link

Missing a girlfriend.