The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS Data Community Summit. This was a lot of fun, us grabbing a space in the convention center and putting this together.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4sLQQR7DgYDPj2Ob1muIgU?si=e1589ae8d52947dd
Also on Apple Podcasts
Next week I’m heading to the Lowry Conference Center in Denver for the RMOUG Training Days. The Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group has put this on for years, and I’ve been honored to speak a few times.
This time I have two sessions, one live and one virtual. The live one will be Flyway tips and tricks, sponsored by Redgate. The virtual one is my Branding Yourself for a Dream Job talk.
Register today and join me to learn about some Oracle and MySQL
This captures the schedule from the 2020 event, where I delivered a talk on Building a Database DevOps Process.
While I was out on sabbatical, I took a two day break to attend an Oracle conference and speak. The Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group Training Days 2020 was held a week ago a little North of Denver and I was there to speak about DevOps.
In many ways, this was similar to the talks and discussions I’ve had with SQL Server developers and DBAs across the last seven or eight years. What was different, and fascinating, is that most of the Oracle people were in the place that lots of you SQL Server people were about 3-4 years ago.
Not that we’re all in the same place, but between the work I’ve done with Redgate and the messages from Microsoft, many SQL Server users get the idea of better development and now are trying to work out the mechanics of implementing things. In the Oracle world it seems that many people are still trying to decide if they should change any development practices and what options are out there.
It wasn’t just me. I watched 3 other DevOps talks and they all were similar. The message was more on what DevOps can mean and how it changes your work building software. In the MS world, we’re more often focused on the mechanics of specific ways to move to a more DevOps style work environment.
Redgate is moving to release more tools for Oracle and other platforms, and we’re evolving the way we build these tools to help more groups. I’m looking forward to spending more time with Oracle procs and brushing up a little on my PL/SQL skills.
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