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The Redgate Summit 2024
The Redgate Summit tour is coming in 2024 to a number of cities. You can see the list here and register for events, but register soon. I know the tickets are going quickly.

Years ago we started SQL in the City, and I was thrilled to speak at those events. We had a number of them in the US and UK, and I enjoyed going to some amazing venues to speak. It was a treat, and I think customers really enjoyed these small conferences.

With our move beyond SQL Server, and beyond SQL as well, we’ve decided to launch new events called Redgate Summits. We also host the annual PASS Data Community Summit, so I’m glad these events are all somewhat themed.

The 2024 Tour

In 2024 we have four events scheduled (so far) in these cities:
- Atlanta (Mar 13)
- London (Apr 17)
- Chicago (May 29)
- NYC (Aug 21)
I’m also scheduled for some Australian events in early May, but still waiting on them to be announced.

I’m excited as we’ve set different tracks with a lot of Redgate specific, and general content. We have product specific sessions, thought leadership on trends (cloud, ai, devops, etc.) and deep-dives. I don’t have a final session list, though I’m busy working on content in a few areas. Hopefully more news soon.

In the meantime, your best bet to secure a ticket is to reach out to your account representative. If you don’t know them, ping sales@red-gate.com and ask who’s assigned. I know they have more pull for tickets than I do

Hope to see you there and watch for more details soon.
February 5, 2024
The DevOps Airways Roadshow

I love this logo.

Our marketing people were very creative. After the van tour last year, we decided to go with a plane this year. I wrote about the photoshoot last week, and you can compare which of these you think looks better.

We have more photos and promos cmming soon and I’m interested to see what the artists come up with.

Our tour is starting this month. We have quite a list of places, though I’m not doing too many. I’ve been trying to better manage travel, and since we have others that can share the load, I’m only doing a few dates.

So far, I’m only in San Jose and Australia (not listed yet), but there are some other Redgate events I’m doing. It’s possible in Q2/Q3 I’ll do a few more, but not many.

If you want to come talk DevOps, register today and either Grant, Ryan, or myself will see you somewhere.

February 5, 2024
Friday Flyway Tips–Navigating in Flyway Desktop

Flyway Desktop changed the navigation and a few people were surprised. I was as well, so I decided to do a short tip on the changes.

This is part of a series of posts on Flyway.

The Old Flyway Desktop

If you’ve been following these tips, or worked with the Flyway Enterprise system, you’ve encountered Flyway Desktop, and you might have seen something that looked like this, with the navigation across the top of the screen. We see four “tabs”, called Schema model,
Generate Migrations, Migrations, and Version Control:

As part of a design refresh, we moved the version control tab to the right side as a bar, which shrinks it, but also gives information while a developer is working. I covered this in a previous tip. You can see that design below.

We weren’t done and I was surprised how quickly we made another change.

Flyway Desktop v7

This was actually in v7.0.5, which released Jan 11. We moved all the tabs to the side, though this time the first three moved to the left. As you can see below, I have the migrations tab selected and the nav is on the side panel.

The same three tabs are there, but now on the left, and what’s more, I can shrink this panel to a bar, which gives me more room in which to see code and work with my changes. The VCS tab is still on the right, with icons to let me know when I have changes to push, pull, or fetch.

Summary

This might not seem like much, but it’s a nice visual change and it gives us the ability to add more features in tabs, without running out of room or squeezing things at the top. Over time, a few more pieces of functionality will appear here as we continue to expand the capabilities of the tool.

Try Flyway Desktop out today. If you haven’t worked with Flyway Desktop, download it today. There is a free version that organizes migrations and paid versions with many more features.

Video Walkthrough

I made a quick video showing this as well. You can watch it below, or check out all the Flyway videos I’ve added:

February 2, 2024
Another Fun Photoshoot
It’s been three weeks in a row I’ve been in the Austin airport. First was corporate annual kickoff, which was a lot of fun seeing and chatting with people that I don’t often get to spend time with. This week was THAT Conference in Round Rock. However, last week was the most interesting.

Our Database DevOps Rocks tour was very successful last year, and we decided to do another one in 2024. I went to Austin last year for a photoshoot with the van, and ended up with some fun pics. One of my favorites is here:

The 2024 Tour

Rather than a van, we wanted to go bigger this year. Someone proposed a plane at Summit, and I thought that was interesting. I wasn’t sure this would work, but it did. I flew to Austin last week with Grant for a quick shoot.

Someone is working on post production of pictures, and some video. We shot a lot of stuff for promo videos and commercials, so the final results will be different, but here are a few fun ones.

Grant and I sat in a couple old first-class Delta seats in the hanger.

We were given the jackets and sunglasses for props, which was fun. We took turns changing them. Here’s Grant modeling the jacket in front of the plane with our photographer giving him instructions.

I even got to walk on the runway, which was slightly unnerving. However, it was super foggy, so no planes were coming or going. Still, it was neat to stand out there. Something I haven’t done.

I’m looking forward to the final props, and also the tour. I’m only on part of it, but there a few places scheduled for me:
- San Jose
- Atlanta
- London
- Chicago
- Brisbane
- Sydney
- Melbourne
Maybe a few more, but we’ll see.
February 2, 2024