Edgar Chiang

When I re-start blogging again, there was a dilemma that I was facing. That is whether I should be blogging about personal matters or professional issues. Why did I have this dilemma?

Well I am a database administrator by profession, and from time to time I do scour the net for information on how to best administer the databases. Much of these information comes from blog posts and there is a very active community of bloggers who contribute very high quality posts on database administering. Furthermore, many of them do encourge people to contribute back to this community by way of blogging and I am being swayed by this calling.

So why am I not doing it?

The number 1 reason why is because I am an absolute newbie in this field. For me, there is still lots and lots of things about this technology that falls in the category of "don't know what I don't know". And because of this, there is this fear that I cannot get over. That is I may write something that is inaccurate, albeit unknowningly, and that somebody might just take it for real and cause some real harm to their production environment.

So for now, I think I shall just stick to personal blogging. But it is definitely an aim of mine to one day start a professional blog of my own.