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  • Speaking at SQL Saturday Austin 2025

    SQL Saturday Austin 2025 is in just a few days. I am honored to be speaking there, and glad to be going back. I’ve missed a number of the Austin events with schedule conflicts, but things worked out well this year, and I’ll be at the event.

    The schedule is out and it’s packed with some great sessions. I’ll be talking about zero downtime deployments, but there are some other nice ones:

    • MS Fabric and SQL from Bob Ward
    • AI for the data professional from Ginger Grant
    • SQL DBs in Fabric for Dashboards and Marts from Joey D’Antoni
    • Defending against Ransomware from Jeff Iannucci

    and plenty more. I’m sad to miss Conor Cunningham’s talk, but we’re at the same time.

    There’s also a Pre-con on Friday about Fabric if you want to attend. It’s a great chance to get very reasonable training at a low cost.

    If you’re anywhere near Austin, some out this Saturday and join us for a great day of learning.

    Now I’m off to pack as I leave tomorrow to head to the Redgate office in Austin for the rest of the week before the big event.

  • The London Redgate Summit

    In a week I’m heading to London for the Redgate Summit. I enjoyed these last year and had some very interesting conversations with customers, prospects, and a few Redgate fans.

    This year the event is on Mar 11 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which should be fun given that I’ve been re-watching Ted Lasso (I still need to make a pilgrimage to Richmond…).

    The schedule has a variety of tracks for leadership and tech people. There are even some breakfast sessions if you want to learn more about Oracle or PostgreSQL. I’ve got the keynote session and a panel for leadership on my agenda.

    Check out the video from last year, and register to come this year. I’ll see you in London next week.

  • Off to Live 360

    I am off to Live 360 today, on my last trip of the year. I’m excited to deliver two presentations tomorrow (VSTH03 and VSTH12), but a little sad this is a very quick trip. I’m coming back Friday, so in total I’ll be in Orlando for about 43 hours, I need to sleep, so my time is less than that.

    I haven’t been to this conference in a few years, but I’m looking forward to going back, even though it’s a short trip. I always enjoy these multi-tech conferences because I get the chance to learn something completely out of my area. In my limited time, I’ll learn about Shift Left DevOps security, because it’s interesting and Brian is a friend. I will also try to hit a GraphQL session since I know nothing about it and it works with various db stores. If I can, I might do some prompt engineering as well.

    If you’re at the event, I’ll try to swing by Wed afternoon and be there all day Thur. Feel free to stop me and say hi.

  • My 2024 PASS Data Community Summit Schedule

    I’m already up. It’s just after 6am in Seattle, but I’m moving and getting ready to head over to the convention center. The keynote starts at 8, and I need to be there to kick off the conference and introduce the Microsoft speakers.

    My day:

    • 8:15am open the conference and keynote
    • 10:25am – Essential Productivity Hacks with Grant
    • 11am – Redgate lunch with the board
    • 3p – customer meeting
    • 6p – expo hall reception, where I hope to have a beverage

    The rest of the conference has me in the community sessions, though not too many. I like that I’m not too committed as I was buried in 2022 and only slightly less in 2023. The rest of the week:

    • Thur, 12p – Hobby sessions, come hear me talk volleyball
    • Thur, 1p – Community conversations about user groups and events
    • Fri 945a – Community leader meet and greet
    • Fri 1145a – Emcee the Dev Lightning Talks
    • Fri 4p – heading home, well the airport

    This is a slightly compressed week for me as I really only arrived at the conference Tuesday afternoon. I spent a little time in Redmond Mon/Tue and then off Fri as I have Sat am coaching commitments at home.

    If you are attending the Summit and see me, please say hi.