Voice of the DBA

Tag: speaking

  • The PASS Summit on Tour in Dallas

    The PASS Summit goes on tour this year, with a September stop in Dallas. This is the first event in the series, and I’m excited to go back to New York City for the event. You can register here and come see some amazing speakers on Sep 15-16, 2025.

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    The lineup is small and short, but it’s a one pre-con day with two half-day sessions and then a one full day of hour long sessions. The pre-cons include Fabric, leadership, performance tuning and more. All from industry experts. The regular sessions are across four tracks with a variety of things you can learn during the 5 time slots throughout the day.

    There is also a Redgate Summit in Dallas on Wednesday. That’s got Redgate specific content, but if you’re interested (or a customer), stay an extra day for that as well.

    If you’re near Dallas, or can convince your boss to send you, register today and join us on tour. The larger main event is still in Seattle, and if you prefer that, come for a full week in November.

  • PASS Summit on Tour in New York City

    The PASS Summit goes on tour this year, with an August stop in New York City. This is the first event in the series, and I’m excited to go back to New York City for the event. You can register here and come see some amazing speakers on Aug 18-19, 2025.

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    The lineup is small and short, but it’s a one pre-con day with two half-day sessions and then a one full day of hour long sessions. The pre-cons include security, analysis, performance tuning and more. All from industry experts. The regular sessions are across four tracks with a variety of things you can learn during the 5 time slots throughout the day.

    There is also a Redgate Summit in New York on Wednesday. That’s got Redgate specific content, but if you’re interested (or a customer), stay an extra day for that as well.

    If you’re near New York City, or can convince your boss to send you, register today and join us on tour. The larger main event is still in Seattle, and if you prefer that, come for a full week in November.

  • DevOps Devour Hour Slides

    Here are the slides from my talk today at the Redgate NYC Devour Hour: Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments.pptx

    The Repo is here: https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime

    An interesting question on feature toggles: Would you use Extended Properties for a feature toggle flag?

    My answer:

    I wouldn’t. I find Extended Propeties (and triggers) to be hidden inside databases and I don’t like hidden things. They fall through the cracks, it’s hard to remember they exist, and more. Plus Extended properties aren’t easily programmed.

    I would love

    alter table add (or update) extended property

    and a way to query these

    select * from table.properties

    Instead we have a messed up sp_add/update property with a very, very unintuitive set of parameters.

  • Speaking at the NYC Lunch and Learn DevOps Devour Hour

    This Friday is the NYC DevOps Devour hour, which is actually 3 hours. Plus a happy hour.

    I’ll be there with Kendra Little and Erik Darling talking about DevOps stuff. You can register now and join me in Manhattan from 12:00-3:00p at the 3rd Avenue Industrious office.

    We’ll be talking performance problems, cloud migration, and deployment architecture. Come join us if you can.