Voice of the DBA

Tag: speaking

  • A Vacation and Traveling to Sacramento

    I’ve got a couple days off, starting today after my webinar on Preparing for When Disaster Strikes. I’ve got some family in town, and since I haven’t taken vacation in some time, I’m looking forward to being unwired for a couple days.

    On Thursday my daughter and I head to Sacramento where we’ll have a SQL in the City Seminar on Development Friday before we attend SQL Saturday #222 in Sacramento. I have a session there on Full Text Search before I take a few more days off and spend some time with my daughter in the Bay Area.

    It will be a quiet blog for a week, and I’m looking forward to it.

  • The Stairway to Deployment

    logoNext week I travel to Sacramento, CA for the SQL in the City Seminar – Stairway to Deployment on Friday, July 26, 2013. It’s a half day event where Grant Fritchey and I will look to lead you through the idea of implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment for databases (as well as other code).

    I have the first two talks to get you started: Team-based Version Control and Automated Build and Test. Grant will cover the Best Practices for Database Deployment and we’ll finish with a Q&A and a happy hour on us.

    We still have space, so register today if you can make it. The event is being held at the Courtyard Marriott Sacramento Midtown in The Orchid Room (4422 Y St, Sacramento, CA 95817) from 12:30-6:00pm.

    We will use some of the Red Gate tools to show you how to accomplish the tasks, but you don’t need them. The tools make the process easier, and that’s the job of our development and software tools, but really the important things to understand are the idea of automating your processes, integrating testing, and having a workflow that is constantly used, but doesn’t slow down your development process.

    Hope to see some of you there.

    Register today.

  • Two Weeks until SQL Saturday #222 in Sacramento

    It’s just two weeks until my next trip. It feels like I just got back from London, and one again I’m prepping to leave again. This is my only trip in July, which I appreciate. It’s been a busy year so far, with lots of travel for me and I am glad to have a little downtime.

    This trip is a mix of vacation and work. I’ll be heading out early as Red Gate has a mini-SQL in the City event on Friday. We’re trying to get customers to come, but if there is space next week, I’ll send out a registration link. I speak Saturday and then head back to San Francisco. My daughter is joining me on this trip, with the chance to tour the NoCal area for the first time. She was actually here with me when she was 1, but didn’t remember that trip.

    I’m presenting my talk on searching binary data, which I’ve done a few times in the last year. This one will be a look at how you get information out of office documents from within SQL Server. It’s a neat feature for the product, and I’d like to hear how people are using it. Let me know if you are, or if I convince you to try it.

    I’ve also got a joint presentation with Grant Fritchey on A Day in the Life of a DBA, showing the common problems you face and a few ways Red Gate can make your job easier.

    I’m looking forward to a Sun/Mon/Tue vacation, getting some time off and recharging before I have a busy fall with the US SQL in the City tour.

  • Prepare for Disaster Webinar

    I’ve been asked by Red Gate to give my “Prepare for Disaster session on a webinar on July 23, 2013. It will be at 10:00am MST/12:00pm EST/ 5:00pm GMT.  This is a session that talks about some of the disaster issues I’ve faced, and you might face. I then “rewind the clock” and look at ways that we can prepare ahead of time and either prevent, or mitigate the impact of the issues.

    The registration link is here.

    For once I’m doing this from the comfort of home instead of being on the road somewhere, which is good and bad. I don’t love presenting webinars, since I really like the audience feedback. Talking to the wall isn’t something I enjoy. However I don’t have the hassles of travel, the time away from home, and I get to sleep in my own bed. All in all, it’s a win.

    If you’re interested in learning about how to get ready for disasters ahead of time, register and I’ll see you on the 23rd.