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Tag: speaking

  • SQL Saturday and the Alamo

    I’ll be traveling this week to SQL Saturday #550 in San Antonio. This is my first time traveling to this part of Texas and I’m looking forward to getting a few minutes to swing by The Alamo and see a piece of history. The Riverwalk is also on my list as a place to hopefully enjoy a margarita or two.

    This is a combination trip for me, going early to see Tim Mitchell’s pre-con on Building Better SSIS Packages. I don’t do a lot with SSIS, but training time can be hard to come by. I always learn things at one hour sessions, but I’m hoping to get a chance to do a little more in depth work with Tim on Friday. He’s a great teacher, and I’m always appreciative of software devleopment techniques that try to build reusable, scalable skills for developers.

    Saturday will be a great event, the first one in San Antonio. I will be delivering my Branding Yourself for a Dream Job talk at 9:45. However, around that, there’s quite a list of sessions covering all aspects of SQL Server. BI, Performance, HA, even Linux.

    If you can make the trip to San Antonio, come on down, learn some SQL Server, meet fellow data professionals, and get inspired to try something new in SQL Server the following week.

  • Visual Studio Live!–Washington DC–Save with me

    DCSPK14I’m going to be speaking this fall at Visual Studio Live, Washington D.C. edition on Oct 3-6. This is my first time attending the event, and I’m looking forward to speaking in DC.

    This is a three day conference, with a day of pre-cons, and if you’re on the East Coast, you might think about asking your boss to come. They’ve got a nice Sell Your Boss link with some reasons for you to attend.

    This is an event with a mix of technologies being covered, though mostly from a development standpoint. If you build software, consider coming to Visual Studio Live in DC in October. I’ve got a few SQL Server sessions, on DevOps and Always Encrypted, and hope to see you there.

    Register today with my code: DCSPK14

  • ReadyRoll and Octopus Deploy Webinar

    I’ll be hosting a webinar next week, Thursday, July 28, with Daniel Nolan (t) (founder of ReadyRoll and fellow Redgate employee) and Damian Brady (b | t) of Octopus Deploy.

    We’ll be talking deployment, with demos to show you how to work with ReadyRoll for your deployment and then how to build a package to be automatically deployed though Octopus Deploy. Both are great products that I enjoy working with.

    Register today if you’re interested in seeing how migration based development and deployment works with ReadyRoll and Octopus Deploy.

  • MeasureUp 2016

    I’m heading down to Austin next weekend for MeasureUp 2016. This is a Microsoft stack conference that looks to help people build custom business software.  There are over 20 sessions, most of them devoted to .NET topics. I think I’m more excited to be in some nice company and have the chance to sit in on some interesting talks.

    I’ve got the one database talk, Bringing DevOps to the Database. I’ll be looking at some of the ways in which we can change database development to be more agile, to fit in more with the way that most application developers build code.

    This builds on work I’ve done in the past, as well as a lot of work that Redgate has done across the last 4-5 years.

    If you’re in the Austin area, and you develop software, maybe you want to come down on Saturday for the event. It’s low cost, and the chance to meet with other software developers (and get out of the heat).

    Register today for MeasureUp 2016 and come shake my hand.