Voice of the DBA

Tag: speaking

  • 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.

  • Speaking at the NYC Lunch and Learn–May 23

    In a couple of weeks, I’ll be in New York City for the Redgate DevOps Devour Hour Lunch and Learn. This is at the Industrious office at 730 3rd Avenue, which is a neat location near the tip of Manhattan.

    This is a half day event, from 12-430, with a short happy hour afterwards. I’ll be there, along with Kendra Little and Erik Darling, talking a variety of different topics.

    • The SQL Server Performance Tasting Menu – Erik
    • A Tale of Two Clouds: What I Learned from Migrating from Azure SQL MI to Amazon RDS for SQL Server – Kendra
    • Designing Zero Downtime Database Deployments – me

    I’m excited to head back to NYC, which is always a fun trip for me. Even more exciting, Erik and Kendra are people who always get me to think with their views of how to work with databases effectively.

    My session will be a mix of tech demos and tips/tricks on how to better make changes to your database systems without interrupting customers.

    You can register today and I’ll see you in a few weeks.

  • SQL Saturday New York City 2025 is Back!

    After missing last year, SQL Saturday New York City is back in 2025. I’m excited to go to the event and honored to speak there. I love visiting New York and I’m looking forward to the trip, as is Mrs Way0utwest, who is coming along for a little vacation. Hopefully we’ll find a fun show to see Saturday night.

    There is a precon this year from Andreas Wolter, longtime SQL Server Program Manager  at Microsoft. It’s on practical performance tuning and troubleshooting, and you can register and attend on Friday.

    Saturday has a great schedule the includes a wide variety of topics. Data virtualization, Power BI, development in a 24/7 environment, Cost optimization, and of course, a lot of Fabric. I’ll be talking about the Data API Builder, which is a cool piece of tech to quickly get those CRUD apps going.

    Pass the word, and come into the city on May 11 for a fun event. Register today and I’ll see you later this week.