Voice of the DBA

Tag: speaking

  • The 2023 Redgate UK DevOps Roadshow

    Years ago Redgate did some traveling events under the SQL in the City brand. These were a lot of fun and kind of amazing. One of the longer tours also made me realize I would hate being in a musical band and touring.

    However, I enjoyed the events and while we’ve moved on from that brand, we have a new one

    The Redgate DevOps Roadshow

    The UK edition of this kicks off in September 2023 and I’ll be in these cities:

    I’ll be traveling with one of our Sales Engineers (Chris Hawkins, I hope), and doing will day sessions for customers on the Flyway suite of tools. You’ll get some practice, learn how things work, and get answers to your questions. Hopefully that day, but if Chris and I don’t know, we’ll query the brilliant engineers back in Cambridge.

    If you’ve ever attended a Redgate event, you know we put on a nice show, we take care of you, you’ll have plenty to eat and drink, and we have fun.

    Hopefully I’ll see some of you in September in the UK.

    Keep watching as well as we’re working on a US edition of this. I’ll do some of these, while Grant and Ryan will do others. I’ll keep my schedule updated as I get more info.

  • Creating a Speaking Failures Support Group

    Earlier this week the emails went out to speakers who submitted to the PASS Data Community Summit 2023 conference. These were acceptances and rejections, letting people know the results of the volunteer review.

    I got this one:

    2023-07-13 10_39_20-PASS Data Community Summit 2023 – Call for Speakers Results - Message (HTML)

    I had only submitted one session after being buried last year, and I assumed (we know what assume means) that this one would get picked. It wasn’t, and that’s OK.

    A Speaking Failures Support Group

    I know I’m not alone. I’ve had many speaking submissions rejected. From big conferences and little ones. It is disappointing, but I’ve learned not to take it personally.

    I know this is a hard message to get, especially for less experienced speakers. So I decided to a) publicly disclose my rejection, and b) create a place to get support.

    Since I am the editor of SQL Server Central, that’s a natural place for me to do this. I set up a forum for a Speaking Support Group, which you can use to post questions, ask for feedback on your submissions or ideas, get spell/grammar/phrasing help from others, commiserate with fellow speakers, and give them support/encouragement to try again.

    Feel free to join me there, and comment on my first post, hopefully telling me to not take this too personally.

  • Talking about the New Open-Source SQLCMD on Data Exposed

    I was on the Data Exposed: MVP Edition show recently, talking about SQLCMD. I’ve written a few articles on the topics as well, and a blog post about setting up a node HTTP server, which I show in the demo.

    Check out the show below:

    Read these articles for more info:

  • Bringing DevOps to the Database – SQL Saturday South Florida 2023 Demos

    With some projector issues at SQL Saturday South Florida 2023, I had to lecture without demos this past weekend. I told everyone I would record the demos, so I’ve done that. The three demos are shown below, and if you download the deck, you can see where they fit into the talk.

    Powerpoint: Bringing DevOps to the Database.pptx

    Demo 1- Getting code into a VCS
    Demo 2- Continuous Integration