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Tag: speaking

  • Off to SQL Saturday Salt Lake City … on Friday

    I’m off on Thursday for Salt Lake City and a SQL Saturday on Friday. SQL Saturday Salt Lake City 2024 is happening, and I’m glad I get to go. I was looking forward to this last year, but it got postponed with venue issues. This year, the timing worked well since I am coaching Sat/Sun/Mon already, so this was an easy trip for me.

    I’ll be presenting my Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments session, looking at splitting up deployments and coordinating with feature flags in your application.

    The schedule has some great sessions. A mix of SQL Server, PostgreSQL, design/modeling, and more.

    If you’re in/near/willing to go to Salt Lake City, come join me Friday, Apr 5. You can register here.

  • Apr 9 Webinar: Accelerating Success: De-risking and Streamlining Releases with Flyway Enterprise

    UPDATE: This moved to Apr 9

    Join me Tuesday, Apr 9 for a webinar, 10:00am CDT. You can register here and then come watch live with questions or get the recording.

    In this webinar, we’ll look at how the Flyway suite of tools can help your team better build and manage database deployments. I love Flyway, and it does a lot of things I was doing in 2001 when DevOps wasn’t even a term and we were releasing every week.

    You can do the same thing, with some of the advanced things Flyway brings to the table that you don’t have to build and maintain.

    • script generation
    • code analysis rules
    • change and drift reports
    • a comprehensive view for impact assessment

    There’s more, but join us on Thursday by registering today

    Tell your friends as well, pass this along, and bring your questions.

  • The PASS Data Community Summit 2024 Call for Speakers

    The PASS Data Community Summit call for speakers and volunteers is open. You have until April 10 to submit something, and you can do that here: Data Community Summit CFS.

    I have tended to submit every other year, though I did put in one session last year, which was rejected. See, it happens to everyone and it’s no big deal. The volunteers didn’t like my session and didn’t choose it.

    I submitted a couple of sessions this week, and you should as well. If you’ve every presented at a user group, SQL Saturday, or even to your team internally, take a chance. Write an abstract and send it in. If you need help, the Speakers Library here has resources for you: https://www.newstarsofdata.com/speaker-improvement/

    This is a great chance to start growing your brand and improving your career.

    Take a chance and submit today

  • Atlanta for Two Days

    Today is the first Redgate Summit of 2024 in Atlanta. I flew to town yesterday,

    There is a packed schedule, which is mostly repeated at our other events coming up in the next few months. I’m especially busy, somehow getting roped into 5 sessions. Fortunately a few are panels, so it hasn’t been too much prep or rehearsal.

    I’ve rarely been to Atlanta in my life. We had a SQL in the City here a few years back, but otherwise, I haven’t traveled to the city. My wife used to come here often, but this is only my second trip.

    Last night was meeting a few speakers and networking. Tonight, I’m likely to lay low as it’s going to be a long day. The Hawks are out of town, so I’m likely to get a quiet dinner and decompress before an early flight tomorrow.

    Hopefully I’ll get to town at some point in the future and spend more time wandering around.