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Tag: speaking

  • Webinar: 6 Principles of the GDPR and SQL Provision

    On April 24, I’ll be hosting a webinar that talks about the GDPR and how you can help ensure compliance in your development environments. I’ll talk about some of the issues and show how SQL Provision can help.

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    The GDPR is complex, but it certainly does ask us to protect and prevent issues with data from development environments. There are many ways you can try and ensure you don’t have any issues, and I’ll show one with Redgate tools.

    Register today and I look forward to talking with you next week.

  • The 700 Milestone for SQL Saturday

    This past weekend was SQL Saturday #700. Another milestone in the franchise of events, and I was glad to attend. This is my fifth or sixth Colorado Springs event, and everything ran great. The leadership has changed over the years, as has the structure and format, but attendance continues to be strong and reliable.

    This year I was late, coming down after coaching youth volleyball. I arrived just as people were outside at the food trucks. That was a great idea, one that I think they took from our “no lunch”, bare-bones SQL Saturday in Denver. A few trucks pulled up and attendees could go outside and choose during a long break for lunch.

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    This is a smaller event, but consistently draws over 100. Many of them were still around for the end of day raffles, as you can see above.

    I’m glad to see the changing of leadership over the years hasn’t prevented this event from continuing. I always worry about sustainability as organizers grow through life and become busy or change careers. As many of us age, retirement is also an issue, and it’s important that we continue to find ways to hand off responsibilities and knowledge, as well as enthusiasm to others.

    I was only around for a couple sessions, including my own, but I did get a chance to hang out and chat with friends, even getting a selfie with a few.

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    I’d love to see more of you at the next Colorado Springs, but really more of you make an effort to attend, speak, volunteer, or organize for future SQL Saturdays. Fingers crossed we’ll meet at 800 (which should be coming soon).

  • The 700 Milestone

    I’ve watched various SQL Saturday milestones go by. I missed 100 in Brazil, but did manage to get to 200 in Philadelphia and 300 in Kansas City. 400 was in Torino, and I am sad about not making the effort to get there. 500 was Boston, but I had a conflict. 600 Chicago, but again, other plans.

    Colorado Springs was awarded 700, and I had to submit ASAP to that one. I’ve got a morning commitment for volleyball, but I’ll be racing down to get to the event and attend the after party.

    I’ve got a repeat presentation, Branding Yourself for a Dream Job, but there are some other great talks. PowerBI from TJay Belt and Meagan Longoria, Optimizer secrets from Brian Hansen, Data Science from Reeves Smith and more.

    Plus there are two great pre-cons on Friday. The Midnight DBAs talking Enterprise Maintenance and Kevin Kline giving you 50 things you need to know.

    If you’re nearby, get a free day of training and say hi in the afternoon. If you can convince the boss, I’d say you should take advantage of one of these pre-cons as well.

  • The SQL Privacy Summit

    This May 18th, Redgate is putting on a SQL Privacy Summit for people that are looking for solutions to help them comply with the GDPR regulations.  I’ll be heading over to participate, and I’m looking forward to hearing from customers and attendees about the challenges they’re facing.

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    The Details

    Friday May 18th 2018

    The Grange Tower Bridge Hotel, 45 Prescot Street, London E1 8GP

    8:15am – 5:30pm (GMT – convert)

    The schedule is out and I’ll be doing a variation of a talk I’ve delivered before on how the GDPR is really asking for solid data practices that we’d all like to implement. There are some panel sessions and lots of networking time built in.

    Registration

    This is an all day conference, though early bird rates continue through this week. You can purchase a ticket for the event from the event announcement. If you’re a customer, contact sales, and you may be able to get a set of discounted tickets.

    Hopefully I’ll see you there and we’ll get the chance to talk about how we can all do a better job securing and protecting our sensitive data.