Voice of the DBA

Tag: presentations

  • Two in Two Days

    It’s a busy week for me. I’ve got quite a few articles to review, feedback to write for Stairway Series authors, review and changes of some PowerPoint decks for later this month, and two User Group presentations.

    This is on top of a busy first week of school in the household. I feel like I’m playing catch up all week.

    Boulder

    I’ll be at the Boulder SQL Server User Group tonight. My presentation will be on Unstructured Data in SQL Server, looking at Filestream and Filetable and how they can be setup and used.

    Fortunately I’ve done this before, and a little practice this week was enough to get me ready.

    Hopefully I’ll see a few of you there as I haven’t been to Boulder in over a year.

    Denver SQL

    The Denver SQL Server User Group usually asks me do a presentation or two each year and this time I have a new one. They get to be my guinea pigs for the first delivery of this talk.

    Get Testing with tsqlt, a preview of a talk I’ll be doing at SQL in the City, is on the agenda. I’ve been going over this one a few times this week, so hopefully it goes smoothly.

  • Apologies to my CI for Databases Attendees

    I have to apologize to everyone that attended my Continuous Integration for Databases talk at SQL Bits. I ran over, a few demos didn’t work, and my machine flaked more than expected. I know those things happen, but I still need to apologize.

    While there were problems with my demos, I should have moved on and gone through things a little quicker as well. I could have cut out, or cut down a few concepts, to get through things quicker. The session is really built for 75 minutes, but that’s no excuse. I need a 60 minute, smoothly delivered, version.

    I also should have run through everything completely after some changes at Red Gate. I only set up part of it, which was a mistake. I don’t know if I’d have caught anything, but I might have.

    I’ll work on getting some video and written content of the presentation up here, and hopefully that will help you understand the concepts, and perhaps start to implement CI with your own databases.

  • Creating Your First Technical Speaking Opportunity

    Abstract:

    This session will cover the basics of choosing a topic, writing an abstract, building a slide deck, and finding an opportunity to deliver your presentation. This is a short introduction to beginning to speak about technical topics.

    Length: 30 minutes

    Slides: FirstSpeakingOpportunity.pptx

    Sample Blank PPTX: BlankSample.PPTX

  • High Performance Encryption

    It is becoming more and more important to protect your data from anyone that should not access it, including the DBA. Learn how you can use column level encryption as well as TDE to protect your data files, with minimal performance impact to your SQL Server instance.

    This session will look at securing data

    • in flight
    • at rest
    • inside the database

    We do this with

    • IPSec/SSL Communications
    • Transparent Data Encryption
    • Partial Hash Bucket values with symmetric encryption.

    Slides:

    Code: