Speaking CV

Bio

Steve Jones (he/him) has been working with databases and computers for over two decades. He has worked with SQL Server since 1991, as well as Oracle, DB2, MySQL and other database platforms. He has been a DBA, developer, and manager in a variety of large and small companies across multiple industries. In 2001 Steve founded SQL Server Central with a few partners and has been publishing technical articles and facilitating discussions among SQL Server professionals ever since. He currently is the full time editor of SQL Server Central, an Advocate for Redgate Software, President of SQL Saturday and the maintainer of T-SQL Tuesday and SQLMemorial.org. Steve is a 15-year Microsoft Data Platform MVP and lives on a horse ranch in Colorado.

Speaking Engagements

This is a list of all the speaking engagements I’ve given over the years, ordered chronologically. I try to update each of the talk pages with the dates, but this is probably the most accurate list. Neat to look back and see a total of 378 across the years. I also have a Sessionize profile as well. A short list of speaking engagements I’ve tracked:

2024 – 13 events, 20 talks

April 17, 2024 – Redgate Summit London 2024
  • The New Database Landscape
  • Panel: Next-Gen Database DevOps: Introducing Platform Engineering
  • Essential Practices for Seamless Database Deployments
  • Panel: Why the database is increasingly important to the boardroom
April 9, 2024 – Redgate Webinar April 5, 2024 – SQL Saturday Salt Lake City

  • Architecting Zero Downtime Database Deployments

April 4, 2024 – Redgate DevOps in a Day – Dallas
  • Keynote opening (remote)
April 2, 2024 – Private DevOps in a Day workshop March 26, 2024 (for me, Mar 27 for AUS) – Redgate DevOps Roadshow: Melbourne
  • Keynote opening (remote)
March 26, 2024 – Customer AMA (private) March 25, 2024 – Redgate Webinar March 13, 2024 – Redgate Innovate Atlanta
  • The New Database Landscape (keynote)
  • Panel: Next-Gen Database DevOps: Introducing Platform Engineering
  • Essential Practices for seamless database deployments
  • Panel: Why the database is increasingly important to the boardroom. How databases are becoming boardroom rather than back-room discussions
  • Q&A: Database DevOps: All you Ever Wanted to Know but were too Afraid to Ask
March 6, 2024 – Redgate Webinar February 21, 2024 – LA Data Platform
  • Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments
February 20, 2024 – DevOps in a Day – San Jose January 30 – Feb 1, 2024 – THAT! Conference Austin
  • Architecting Zero Downtime Deployment

2023 – 24 events, 30 talks

November 15-19, 2023 – PASS Data Community Summit
  • Database DevOps Luncheon Panel with Liz Baron and Hamish Watson  (panel)
  • Optimizing the Database Software Delivery Engine (panel)
November 1, 2023 – Redgate DevOps in a Day Virtual November 14, 2023 – Redgate DevOps in a Day Seattle October 26, 2023 – All Day DevOps (virtual)
  • Architecting Zero Downtime Database Deployments
October 14, 2023 – SQL Saturday Boston 2023
  • Architecting Zero Downtime Database Deployments
  • Blogging for the Tech Professional
September 23, 2023 – SQL Saturday Denver 2023 September 20, 2023 – Redgate DevOps in a Day Boston
  • All day Redgate event
  • Evening Flyway Meetup
September 8, 2023 – Redgate DevOps in a Day London September 6, 2023 – Redgate DevOps in a Day Bristol September 4, 2023 – Redgate DevOps in a Day Manchester August 31, 2023 – Redgate DevOps Day (Chicago) August 24, 2023 – Redgate DevOps Day (Houston) July 24-26, 2023 – That! Conference  (my profile)
  • Bringing DevOps to the Database
June 27, 2023 – Data Exposed MVP Edition (tentative)
  • Quickly Creating Containers with the new open-source SQLCMD
June 9, 2023 – Denver Dev Days 2023
  • Blogging for the Tech Professional
  • Architecting Zero Downtime Database Deployments
June 7-8, 2023 – Agile + DevOps West
  • Don’t Forget the Database
June 3, 2023 – SQL Saturday South Florida 2023
  • Bringing DevOps to the Database
May 24, 2023 – Houston SQL Server User Group
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
May 6, 2023 – SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2023
  • Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments
March 21-23, 2023 – Visual Studio Live – Las Vegas
  • Architecting Zero Downtime Database Deployments – Wednesday, March 22, 2023
  • Adding Graph Structures to Your SQL Database – Thursday, March 23, 2023
March 14-18, 2023 – SQL Bits
  • Blogging for the Tech Professional
March 16, 2023 – Redgate DevOps in a Day – Melbourne
  • Opening Keynote
February 16-17, 2023 – RMOUG’s Training Days Conference (virtual)
  • Tips and Tricks for Using Flyway to Deploy Database Changes
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
January 18, 2023 – Webinar with SQL Solutions Group, 2pm EST
  • Database DevOps: The SeQueL, with Steve Jones

2022 – 19 events, 34 talks

Nov 15-18, 2022 – PASS Data Community Summit
  • To the Cloud Learning Pathway – The Azure SQL Ecosystem (online, Wed 1430)
  • The Journey from Manual Deployments to Database DevOps (precon) (Tues, 08:00)
  • Transformation and Innovation: Why the Database Must be Included (Wed, 14:00)
  • Doing More with Less: The Challenges Ahead for Every Data Professional (keynote) (Thur, 08:00)
  • Redgate PASS Summit 2022 DevOps Devour Hour (Thur)
  • Lightning Talk host (Thur, Fri)
November 12, 2022 – SQL Saturday Oregon and SW Washington 2022
  • Adopting a DevOps Process for Your Database
October 22, 2022 – SQL Saturday Toronto 2022
  • Branding Yourself for Your Dream Job
October 12, 2022 – Database DevOps in a Day (Melbourne)
  • Keynote
October 8, 2022 – SQL Saturday Boston 2022 (submitted)
  • Branding Yourself for Your Dream Job
  • Adopting a DevOps Process for Your Database
September 29, 2022 – IDC London
  • What I wish I’d known: Cloud migration
  • Digital Transformation: Why the Database must be included
September 17, 2022 – SQL Saturday Denver 2022 (accepted)
  • A Version Control Primer for Databases
  • Adopting a DevOps Process for Your Database
August 13, 2022 – SQL Saturday Los Angeles 2022 (tentative)
  • Adopting a DevOps Process for your Database
Aug 9-11, 2022 – Visual Studio Live! – Redmond
  • The Serverless Azure Database
  • Adding Graph Structures to Your SQL Database
July 27, 2022 – SQL Solutions Group Webinar
  • What is the convergence of SQL Server and DevOps?
July 23, 2022 – SQL Saturday New Jersey 2022
  • Adopting A DevOps Process for Your Database
Jul 16, 2022 – DevOps in a Day with Redgate
  • Opening keynote
Jun 14-16, 2022 – Visual Studio Live! – Austin
  • The Serverless Azure Database
  • Using CI and Testing to Prevent Database Problems
Jun 2-3, 2022 – DataGrillen May 23-25, 2022 – Techorama Antwep May 14, 2022 – SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2022 (submitted) March 24, 2022 – Toronto SQL Server User Group
  • A Version Control Primer
March 8-12, 2022 – SQL Bits
  • Precon with Redgate
  • The Serverless Azure Database
  • Panel – Monitoring Your Estate
January 25, 2022 – DBA Fundamentals Virtual Group
  • The Encryption Primer

2021 – 17 events, 18 talks

December 7-9, 2021 – Devintersection / SQL Server and Azure SQL Conference
  • Automated Database Builds in Azure DevOps with Local Agents
November 18, 2021 –Southland Data Professionals
  • Continuous Integration with Local Agents and Azure DevOps
November 10-12, 2021 – PASS Data Community Summit (virtual) October 30, 2021 – SQL Saturday Orlando 2021
  • A Version Control Primer for Databases
October 11-12, 2021 – DataMinds Connect 2021
  • Continuous Integration with Local Agents and Azure DevOps
September 29, 2021 – Future Data Driven (virtual)
  • The Future of Database Development
September 21, 2021 – Cloud Summit 2021
  • A Tour of Azure DevOps
September 15, 2021 -Webinar Donovan Brown and Mark Fussell talk Cloud Native development with Dapr
  • Host
August 19, 2021 – Kansas City SQL Server Users Group (virtual)
  • A Tour of Azure DevOps
August 19, 2021 – Denver SQL Server User Group (hybrid)
  • Blogging for the Tech Professional
July 8, 2021 – Richmond SQL Server User Group May 26, 2021 – Hampton Roads SQL Server User Group May 7, 2021 – Mental Health and Wellness Day April 27, 2021 – Powershell + DevOps Global Summit 2021
  • Building an API Script in PowerShell
February 25, 2021 – ConFoo 2021 Virtual
  • The Future of Database Development with Containers
February 18, 2021 – Redgate Summit
  • Ask the Experts Panel
January 29-30, 2021 – C# Corner SQL Server Virtual Conference
  • Bringing DevOps to the Database

2020 – 11 events, 20 presentations

December 10, 2020 – Redgate Summit
  • Discussion of Redgate Deploy
December 3, 2020 – Azure webinar series December 2-4, 2020 – Data Platform Summit 2020 (local link)
  • Adopting a DevOps Process for your Database
  • Blogging for the Technical Professional
November 19, 2020 – Denver SQL Server User Group (local link)
  • Using Hosted and Local Agents for Continuous Integration
Nov 10-13, 2020 – PASS 2020 Summit Virtual (local link) Aug 29, 2020 – SQL Saturday #997 – Salt Lake City Virtual (local link) Aug 25, 2020 – Redgate Streamed
  • Emcee and host – A discussion with Donovan Brown and Abel Wang
July 2, 2020 – Redgate Streamed ANZ
  • Keynote – The State of Database DevOps 2020
  • Ask the Expert: Q&A with Troy Hunt
Jun 13, 2020 – Tech Community Day 2020 – Virtual (local link)
  • The Future of Database Development
April 25, 2020 – SQL Saturday #962 Richmond Virtual (local link) April 15, 2020 – Redgate Webinar April 1-3 , 2020 –Redgate Streamed
  • How database DevOps levels up remote work (panel)
  • Intro and The basics of unit tests with tsqlt
  • The future of database Administration and Development (panel)
March 18, 2020 – LA Data Platform User Group (local link) February 18, 2020 – RMOUG Oracle Training Days (local link)
  • Building a Database DevOps Process

2019 – 21 events, 40 talks

December 14, 2019 – SQL Saturday #910 Slovenia November 21, 2019 – Denver SQL Server User Group November 4-5, 2019 – PASS Summit 2019 October 25, 2019– SQL in the City Summit – London 2019
  • Opening keynote – The State of Database DevOps
  • Panel Discussion
  • Customer Interview
  • Closing keynote – The Future of DevOps
October 11, 2019 – SQL Saturday #908 – Denver October 12, 2019 – SQL Saturday #908 – Denver October 5, 2019 – SQL Saturday #870 – Memphis September 27, 2019 – SQL in the City Summit Sydney 2019
  • Opening keynote: State of Database DevOps
  • Panel: What you need to know before launching a DevOps Initiative
  • The Importance of Monitoring Your Azure SQL Database
  • Strategies for solving compliance challenges
September 18, 2019 – State of DevOps 2019 Webinar
  • Hosting a webinar with Jez Humble
September 4, 2019 – SQL in the City Streamed
  • 20 Years of SQL Server
  • Stop Completing Tasks and Create Business Value
  • Experts Panel
July 13, 2019 – SQL Saturday #890 – Austin
  • Adopting a DevOps Database Development Process
  • The Future of Database Development with Containers
June 29, 2019 – SQL Saturday #884 – Pensacola June 19, 2019 – Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group
  • Containers, Kubernetes, and SQL Server
June 15, 2019 – SQL Saturday #865 – Melbourne June 14, 2019 – SQL in the City Summit – Melbourne, AUS
  • Opening Keynote: 2019 State of Database DevOps
  • The Importance of Monitoring Your Azure SQL Database
  • Strategies for Solving Compliance Challenges
June 8, 2019 – SQL Saturday #831 – South Island
  • Keynote – The 2019 State of Database DevOps
  • Always Encrypted in SQL Server
June 7, 2019 – SQL in the City Summit – Christchurch, NZ
  • Opening Keynote: 2019 State of Database DevOps
  • The Importance of Monitoring Your Azure SQL Database
  • Strategies for Solving Compliance Challenges
June 1, 2019 – SQL Saturday #838 – Brisbane, AUS May 31, 2019 – SQL in the City Summit – Brisbane
  • Opening Keynote: 2019 State of Database DevOps
  • The Importance of Monitoring Your Azure SQL Database
  • Strategies for Solving Compliance Challenges
May 22, 2019 – SQL in the City Summit – Austin
  • Building quality into your continuous delivery process
May 15, 2019 – SQL in the City Summit – Los Angeles
  • Building quality into your continuous delivery process
April 30, 2019 – SQL in the City Summit – London
  • Building quality into your continuous delivery process
April 3, 2019 – SQL in the City Streamed, April 2019
  • Getting Team Collaboration: The Culture Shift

2018 – 25 events, 37 talks

December 2018 – SQL in the City Streamed December 2018
  • Keynote – The State of Compliant Database DevOps
Nov 4-8 – 2018 PASS Summit October 26, 2018 – SQL in the City Summit – Chicago
  • Strategies For Solving Compliance Challenges
  • Panel discussion: Compliant Database DevOps Adoption
October 18, 2018 – SQL in the City Summit – London
  • Strategies For Solving Compliance Challenges
  • Panel discussion: Compliant Database DevOps Adoption
October 12, 2018 – SQL in the City Summit – New York
  • Strategies For Solving Compliance Challenges
  • Panel discussion: Compliant Database DevOps Adoption
October 9-10, 2018 – Certified InfoSec Conference
  • Minimizing the impact of data breaches in dev and test databases
October 3, 2018 – Queensland SQL Server User Group
  • Adopting a DevOps Process for the Database
September 29, 2018 – SQL Saturday #770 – Pittsburgh
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
  • Adopting a DevOps Process for the Database
September 8, 2018 – SQL Saturday #74 Cambridge
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
September 5, 2018 – SQL in the City Streamed September 2018
  • Strategies for Solving Compliance Challenges for the Technology industry
September 1, 2018 – SQL Saturday #746 – Oslo
  • Bringing DevOps to the Database
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
August 15, 2018 – Boulder SQL User Group
  • Including Your Database in a DevOps process
August 11, 2018 – SQL Saturday Baton Rouge
  • A Tour of SQL Server 2016 Security Features
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
  • Adopting a DevOps Process for your Database
July 21, 2018 – SQL Saturday #729 Louisville
  • End to End Encryption and Security in SQL Server
July 19, 2018 – Microsoft Inspire Conference

  • AP115w – Market your data tools with SQL Operations Studio

June 20, 2018 – SQL in the City June 2018
  • How to minimize the impact of data breaches
June 22, 2018 – ISACA Conference – Cork, Ireland
  • Database DevOps to Ensure Compliance
June 12, 2018 – 24 Hours of Pass Summit 2018 Preview
  • Database DevOps to Ensure Compliance
June 9, 2018 – SQL Saturday #773 Los Angeles
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
May 31-June 2 – Music City Tech 2018
  • Bringing DevOps to the Database
  • End to End Encryption and Security in SQL Server
May 18, 2018 – Redgate SQL Privacy Summit
  • Keynote: A GDPR Conversation with our CEO
  • Protecting Dev and Test Environments
May 8, 2018 – Milwaukee SQL User Group
  • Including Your Database in a DevOps Process
April 18, 2018 – Colorado Springs User Group
  • Including Your Database in a DevOps process
March 24, 2018 – SQL Saturday #700 – Colorado Springs
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
February 28, 2018 – SQL in the City 2018 Streamed
  • Not Just for Europe: The global impact of the GDPR
  • Create, protect, and manage databases for compliant DevOps

2017 – 18 events, 34 talks

December 2017 – SQL in the City Streamed
  • From DBA to DevOps hero – rapid database provisioning with SQL Clone
  • How DevOps for the Database Helps with Compliance
  • Latest SQL Compare features and support for SQL Server 2017
November 6-9, 2017 DevOps East, Orlando, FL
  • Bringing DevOps to the Database
Oct 31 – Nov 3 – PASS Summit 2017
  • Adopting a DevOps Process for Your Database
  • How DevOps for the Database Helps with Compliance
October 24, 2017 – All Day DevOps 2017
  • Including the Database in Your DevOps Process
October 16-19, 2017 VS Live Anaheim
  • Unit Testing T-SQL Code
  • A Tour of SQL Server Security Features
September 9, 2017 – SQL Saturday #632 – Cambridge September 6, 2017 – Redgate Hub Livestream

August 17-19, 2017 – Data Platform Summit 2017

  • Precon – Database DevOps
  • Getting Started With Devops
  • Blogging For The Tech Professional
  • SQL Server Encryption
  • Unit Testing T-SQL Code
  • Git, Branches, And Pull Requests For Database Development
July 29, 2017 – SQL Saturday #628 – Baton Rouge June 23, 2017 – DenverDevDay
  • Including Your Database in a DevOps CI/CD Process
June 4, 2017 – SQL Saturday LA – June 10, 2017 April 28, 2017 – GroupBy Online Conference May 16-18, 2017 – VS Live Austin
  • Continuous Integration for Databases
  • A Tour of SQL Server 2016 Security Features
April 22, 2017 – SQL Saturday #621 – Silicon Valley April 5-8, 2017 – SQL Bits 2017, Telford, UK
  • Including Your Database in a DevOps CI/CD Process
March 29, 2017 – SQL in the City – SQL Clone Product Launch
  • How SQL Clone helps solve database provisioning problems – LIVE DEMO
  • Using PowerShell with SQL Clone to automate provisioning jobs
March 25, 2017 – SQL Saturday #584 – Colorado Springs Feb 14-16 – SQL Konferenz – Frankfurt, Germany

2016 – 21 events, 31 talks

December 14-15, 2016 – SQL in the City 2016 December 5-9, 2016 – Visual Studio Live / SQL Server Live – Orlando, FL October 26-28, 2016 – PASS Summit
  • Lightning Talks at the Redgate booth – TBD
October 10-12 – IT/Dev Connections – Las Vegas, NV October 4-6, 2016 – Visual Studio Live – Washington, D.C.
  • Implementing Data Protection and Security in SQL Server 2016
  • Bringing DevOps to the Database
September 15, 2016 – Denver SQL Server Users Group
  • Bringing DevOps to the Database
Sept 10, 2016 – SQL Saturday #520 – Cambridge August 30, 2016 – London Database Professionals Meetup Sept 3, 2016 – SQL Saturday #532 – Oslo – Heading to the UK the following week, so … Aug 13, 2016 – SQL Saturday #550 – San Antonio July 23, 2016 – MeasureUp – Austin, TX June 4, 2016 – SQL Saturday #491 – Pensacola – I’m looking forward to going back to the panhandle. Always fun. May 4-7 – SQL Bits, Liverpool, UK
  • A Practical Approach to Version Control
  • Testing T-SQL Made Quick and Easy
May 2-4 – SQL Nexus – Copenhagen April 20, 2016 – Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group
  • Getting Started with Encryption in SQL Server 2016
April 16, 2016 – SQL Saturday Phoenix
  • End to End Protection with Always Encrypted in SQL Server 2016
  • Get Testing with tSQLt
April 12, 2016 – Sioux Falls User Group (Remote)
  • Automated Build and Test
March 30, 2016 – //build/ 2016 February 20, 2016 – SQL Saturday #478 – Albuquerque February 17, 2016 – Boulder SQL Server User Group Jan 30, 2016 – SQL Saturday #461 – Austin

2015 – 23 events, 35 talks

December 5, 2015 – SQL Saturday #470 – Washington DC November 21, 2015 – SQL Saturday #474 – Salt Lake City November 19th – Denver SQL Server User Group October 29, 2015 – Pass Summit 2015 – Seattle October 26, 2015 – SQL in the City – Seattle October 16, 2015 – SQL in the City – London October 14, 2015 – SQL Relay – Cardiff October 13, 2015 – SQL Relay – Bristol October 10, 2015 – SQL Saturday #442 – Orlando, FL Sep 18, 2015 – Denver – DLM Workshop Training
  • Source Control Workshop (co-teaching)
September 15-17 – DevConnections 2015, Las Vegas, NV
  • Intermediate T-SQL – Windowing Functions
  • Branching and Merging Database Code
Aug 27, 2015 – NYC – DLM Workshop Training
  • Source Control Workshop (co-teaching)
Aug 22, 2015 – SQL Saturday #403 Louisville Aug 1, 2015 – SQL Saturday #423 Baton Rouge, LA Jul 31, 2015 – NYC – Baton Rouge Workshop Training
  • Source Control Workshop (co-teaching)
July 18, 2015 –SQL Saturday #427 – Sioux Falls July 16, 2015 – Habitat for Humanity Presentation (private)
  • A standard presentation from Habitat for Humanity on their mission and history
July 16, 2015 – Lincoln SQL Server User Group – remote
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
June 27, 2015 – SQL Saturday #407 Vancouver Jun 6, 2015 – SQL Saturday #390 Philadelphia June 5, 2015 – Unit Testing in SQL Server with tSQLt
  • Pre-conference session, co-presented with Sebastian Meine. All day training class on testing T-SQL code.
May 16, 2015 – SQL Saturday #393 Redmond Apr 11, 2015 – SQL Saturday #389 Huntington Beach
  • Continuous Integration for Databases
  • Get Testing with tSQLt
Mar 4-7, 2015 – SQL Bits XIV – London Feb 2-5, 2015 – SQL Konference, Darmstadt, Germany
  • Get Testing with tSQLt

2014 – 26 Events, 45 talks

Dec 6, 2014 – SQL Saturday #347 – Washington D.C. Dec 5, 2014 – SQL in the City 2014 – Washington DC
  • Version Control for Databases
  • Get Testing with tSQLt
Nov 19, 2014 – Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group
  • The Encryption Primer
Nov 3, 2014 – SQL in the City 2014 – Seattle
  • Keynote: Ship Often, Ship Safe
  • Version Control Your Databases
  • Get Testing with tSQLt
  • Avoiding a DBA’s worst days with monitoring
Nov 5-8, 2014 – PASS Summit (Seattle)
  • Maintaining High Performance While Using Encryption
Oct 24, 2014 – SQL in the City 2014 – London
  • Keynote: Ship Often, Ship Safe
  • Version Control Your Databases
  • Get Testing with tSQLt
  • Avoiding a DBA’s worst days with monitoring
Oct 14, 2014 – Mastering T-SQL Series, webinar
  • Writing Cleaner Code
  • Intermediate Queries
  • Window Functions
Oct 10-11, 2014 – Silicon Valley Code Camp – San Jose, CA
  • Continuous Integration for Databases
October 8, 2014 – SQL in the City – Cambridge, MA
  • Version Control for Databases
  • Get Testing with tSQLt
Sept 20, 2014 – SQL Saturday #331 – Denver
  • Get Testing with tSQLt
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
Sept 15-19, 2015 – DevConnections – Las Vegas
  • Continuous Integration for Databases
  • Maintaining High Performance While Using Encryption
Sept 13, 2014 – SQL Saturday #300 – Kansas City
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
Aug 21, 2014 – Denver SQL Server User Group
  • Get Testing with tSQLt
Aug 20, 2014 – Boulder SQL Server User Group
  • Unstructured Data in SQL Server
Aug 9, 2014 – SQL Saturday #304 – Indianapolis
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
July 17-19 SQL Bits XII
  • Continuous Integration for Databases
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
June 21, 2014 – SQL Saturday #286 – Louisville
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
  • The Encryption Primer
June 11, 2014 – Denver WIT Group April 13-16, 2014 – SQL Intersection
  • Protecting Your Data with Encryption While Maintaining Performance in SQL Server 2014 (Mon, 12:00pm)
  • Faster and More Reliable Database Development with Continuous Integration (Tues, 10:15am)
  • Working with Filestream and Filetable in SQL Server 2014 (Tues, 11:45am)
April 12, 2014 – SQL Saturday #297 – Colorado Springs
  • The Encryption Primer
April 5, 2014 – SQL Saturday #295 – Las Vegas
  • The Encryption Primer
March 29, 2014 – SQL Saturday #287 – Madison
  • Unstructured Data in SQL Server
March 14, 2014 – SQL in the City Seminar, San Jose
  • Team Based Version Control
  • Automated Build and Test
  • Best Practices for Database Deployment
March 15, 2014 – SQL in the City #276 – Silicon Valley
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
February 8, 2014 – SQL Saturday #241 – Cleveland
  • The Encryption Primer
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
January 25, 2014 – SQL Saturday #271 Albequerque
  • The Encryption Primer

2013 – 30 events, 54 talks

December 7 – 2013 – SQL Saturday #233 – Washington DC
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
December 6, 2013 – SQL in the City Seminar – Washington DC – Stairway to Deployment
  • Team based Development with Version Control
  • Automated Build and Test
November 16, 2013 – SQL Saturday #265 Oregon November 15, 2013 – SQL in the City Seminar – Portland – Stairway to Deployment October 27-30, 2013 – SQL Intersection Fall 2013 October 20, 2013 – Denver SQL Server User Group October 14, 2013 – SQL in the City 2013 – Charlotte, NC October 12, 2013 – SQL Saturday #227 – Charleston October 11, 2013 – SQL in the City 2013 – Atlanta, GA October 9, 2013 – SQL in the City 2013 – Pasadena, CA September 30-Oct 4, 2013 – DevConnections Fall
  • FullText Search with Office Documents and PDFs
  • Encryption in SQL Server
September 28, 2013 – SQL Saturday #190 – Denver September 27, 2013 – SQL in the City Seminar – Denver – The Stairway to Database Deployment September 21, 2013 – SQL Saturday San Diego September 20, 2013 – SQL in the City Seminar – San Diego – The Stairway to Database Deployment July 28, 2013 – SQL Saturday #222 – Sacramento July 27 ,2013 – SQL in the City Seminar – Stairway to Development, Saramento, CA July 23, 2013 – Webinar – Prepare for When Disaster Strikes June 21, 2013 – SQL in the City 2013 – London June 19-20, 2013 – IT Connections Online June 1, 2012 – SQL Saturday #200 – Philadelphia May 3, 2013 – SQL Bits XI – Nottingham (event May 2-4) Apr 27, 2012 – SQL Saturday #175 – Fargo Apr 10-12 – SQL Intersection, Las Vegas, NV (schedule) Ill_Be_There.jpg Apr 9, 2012 – SQL Saturday #197 – Omaha Mar 9, 2013 – SQL Saturday #187 – Richmond, VA Mar 8, 2013 – SQL in the City Seminar – Richmond, VA
  • Core Monitoring for SQL Server
  • Indexing Essentials
Mar 7, 2013 – Richmond SQL Server User Group – Richmond, VA Feb 11-13, 2013 – Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group Training Days, Denver, CO Feb 8, 2013 – SQL Saturday #183 – Albuquerque sqlsat183_speaking

2012 – 17 events, 33 talks

Denver SQL Server Users Group – November meeting, 11/15/2012 Boulder SQL Server Users Group – The Nov 13, 2012 meeting. SQL in the City Seattle, WA 2012 – Nov 5, 2012 SQL Server Connections/Dev Connections Fall 2012 – Two talks on the first day, Oct 30, 2012 SQL in the City Boston 2012 – Our mini tour wraps up in Boston on Oct 8, 2012 SQL in the City Chicago, IL 2012 – The windy city on Oct 5, 2012 SQL in the City San Francisco, SA 2012 – The west coast stop for SQL in the City on Oct 3, 2012 SQL in the City Austin, TX 2012 – The second stop of the tour in TX on Oct 1, 2012 SQL in the City New York 2012 – The 2012 SQL in the City tour kicks off in NYC on Sept 28, 2012 SQL Saturday #169 – Denver – The second SQL Saturday event in Denver on Sept 22, 2012 Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group – The monthly meeting has me presenting on Sept 19, 2012 SQL Saturday #144 Sacramento, CA – July 28, 2012 SQL in the City – London 2012 – July 13 and 14, 2012 SQL Saturday #132 – Pensacola – June 9, 2012 Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta 2012 – May 19, 2012 SQL Saturday #131 – Phoenix – Apr 28, 2012 SQL Server Connections/Dev Connections – Las Vegas, Mar 26-29, 2012

2011 – 13 events, 21 talks

SQL Inspire – New York City, NY – Nov 11, 2011
  • Finding Your Balance
SQL Server Connections, Las Vegas, NV – Oct 31 – Nov 3
  • Preparation for Disaster
SQL in the City – Los Angeles, CA – October 28, 2011
  • Preparation for Disaster
PASS 2011 Summit – Seattle, WA – October 9-11
  • Top Ten SQL Server Skills You Need
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job – The Modern Resume
SQL Bits IX – Liverpool, UK – September 30-Oct 1
  • Preparation for Disaster
SQL Saturday #90 – Oklahoma City, OK – August 27, 2011
  • Keynote
  • Red Gate Tools Demonstration
SQL Saturday #64 – Baton Rouge, LA – Aug 6, 2011 SQL in the City – London, UK – July 15, 2011
  • Preparation for Disaster – This session will showcase how a DBA can be ready for any problems that might occur in their environment by developing a well thought out backup and recovery solution, practising restores, and regularly running DBCC CHECKDB to check for corruption.
SQL Saturday #77 – Pensacola, FL – June 6, 2011 SQL Saturday #62 – Dallas, TX – Apr 2, 2011 Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta v3.0 – Mar 3, 2011
  • Keynote – Taking Responsibility
  • The Modern Resume – Building Your Brand –
  • Common SQL Server Mistakes
SQL Saturday #60 – Cleveland, OH – February 5, 2011 SQL Saturday #66 – Colorado Springs, CO – February 13, 2011

2010 – 7 events, 10 talks

SQL Saturday #33 – Charlotte, NC – Mar 6, 2010 SQL Saturday #22 – Pensacola, FL – June 5, 2010 SQL Saturday #28 – Baton Rouge – August 14, 2010 SQL Saturday #52 – Denver, CO – September 25, 2010 SQL Saturday #53 – Kansas City, MO – October 2, 2010 Boulder SQL Server Users Group – October 19, 2010 SQL Saturday #59 – New York City, NY – November 20, 2010

2009 – 2 events, 2 talks

SQL Saturday #15 – Pensacola, FL – June 6, 2009 SQL Saturday #17 – Baton Rouge, LA – Aug 1, 2009

2008 – 2 events, 2 talks

Indy Tech Fest 2008 – October 4, 2008
  • Green Technology
October 25, 2008 – SQL Saturday #8 – Orlando, FL