Voice of the DBA

Tag: speaking

  • 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.

  • A DevOps Workshop Tomorrow in Atlanta

    Tomorrow is the Redgate DevOps Day in Atlanta. You can still sign up, so do that if you can make it. Here’s the rough outline

    • Vision Session – w/ Advocate Steve Jones
    • Redgate Flyway hands-on Session
    • 6 ways to Elevate Database Monitoring
    • Whiteboarding Session
    • Test Data Manager Demo Session
    • Networking/Happy Hour

    Lunch is provided and I’m looking forward to this. I’m traveling from Baton Rouge today to Atlanta (probably right now), coming from a customer visit.

    Register and come see me in Atlanta tomorrow

  • SQL Saturday NYC 2025 Slides Building an API with DAB

    I forgot to do this Saturday, and was traveling all day yesterday, but I’m finally getting this done. Thanks to everyone that attended my talk on building an API with the Data API Builder.

    Slides: BuildingAPI.pptx

    Demo code repo: https://github.com/way0utwest/DAB-Experiments

    Note, the repo is a little unorganized, but I’ve tried to add some stuff in the Getting Started as READMEs. If you have questions, let me know.