Voice of the DBA

Author: way0utwest

  • Two Weeks to #sqlinthecity Streamed

    It’s just two weeks until the SQL in the City Streamed starts up again in 2019. I’m ready to travel to the UK and join Kendra, Grant, Kathi, and fellow Redgaters for a few hours of training and learning. We’ll be broadcasting live from the Redgate office, and I hope you’ll join us.

    I’ll be talking about culture and collaboration, while others will cover other Compliant Database DevOps topics. The schedule is out and it’s full of different talks that will help you get started with DevOps, improve your process, and convince your boss this is the way to build better database software.

    I hope you’ll join us for a few hours, take a break, and see how we can help you make database development just a little smoother.

    Register today, get a few friends together, and let’s talk DevOps.

  • Republish: How Virtualized?

    Last day at the MVP Summit, so enjoy this today: How Virtualized?

  • Republish: Serious Hacking

    I’m off today, attending the MVP Summit in Washington. Enjoy Serious Hacking.

  • A Week of SQL Server 2019

    I’m in Redmond, or Bellevue, or somewhere nearby. Not completely sure where the Microsoft MVP Summit is this week (as I write this). I’ve got travel planned, so I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

    In any case, I can’t talk about anything I see this week for now, but I am excited. It’s a week of SQL Server 2019 and future work that’s coming to us at some point. I don’t always get excited about new versions, and SQL Server 2017 wasn’t one, but I’m changing my mind.

    I think SQL Server 2019 is going to be a new evolution of the platform, with the Big Data Clusters and K8s support. This is going to change how we deal with data over time.

    Don’t ask questions for now, but as soon as I can write about things, I will.