Voice of the DBA

Tag: SQL in the City

  • It’s Time for SQL in the City

    Today is SQL in the City 2017. Once again we’re streaming the event online, live from Cambridge in the UK. I’ve flown over, along with Grant Fritchey and Kathi Kellenberger to entertain you for the day. We’ll be broadcasting at 11am in the UK for five hours before we take a short break and return for a 1pm EST start of the second broadcast. You can still register and we hope you’ll tune in for a few a session or two, or all of them if you can convince the boss to give you a training day. You won’t know unless you ask.

    I’m excited to show off a few things today, as I’m sure Kathi and Grant are as well. Our developers have been hard at work throughout the year, improving our software and adding new features, while fixing a few bugs. It feels like the pace of change is steadying out, with most products releasing changes every two weeks, but we’re adding a lot more exciting and interesting changes. It seems that the products are maturing well, in ways that I didn’t expect.

    I’ve been especially excited by the changes in SQL Clone this year. We’ve really  grown this product up, with the team being reponsive to customer requests. It’s exciting to be the one to present some of the changes to you, as well as try to introduce others to the product. This is one of those products that I wish would have been available 15 years ago as I would have saved lots of storage costs as well as gained a tremendous amount of flexibility.

    SQL Prompt and SQL Monitor have also had great years, and I’ve been impressed with their growth. Unfortunately I didn’t get the short straw and had to leave those products to my colleagues. I guess I can’t have all the fun. Maybe I’ll try to photobomb my way into one of those sessions.

    Presenting at events is exciting, and I’m looking forward to the day. It’s long, but it will still be a fun time. These streaming events are also a neat experience, as we’ve got a bit of a TV studio feel, with multiple cameras, displays, tape on the floor, and more. For someone that is used to sitting at a  desk and working at my pace, I get a little excited by the efforts put into the broadcast from our IT staff. We have various schedules and checklists, and I’ve spent the last couple days rehearsing the talks.

    I still like live events, and hope we’ll do a few in the future, but for now, sit back, relax, and enjoy SQL in the City from the comfort of your office.

    Steve Jones

    The Voice of the DBA Podcast

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  • Join Me Online Next Week for SQL in the City

    It’s one week to SQL in the City 2017, once again streamed. I’ll be traveling this weekend to the Redgate office and getting setup. After two days of rehearsing, I’ll be ready for the live broadcast Dec 13.

    Here’s a quick promo video as well:

    Once again, we’ll be covering a number of topics that you will be interested in such as code analysis, performance counters, Database DevOps, and more. Perhaps a topic that most of us need to learn more about is data protection and privacy. We’ll have a bit to discuss here as well. This is a topic that is important for us as GDPR will take effect in 2018 and will impact us, as well as many of you.

    You can see the full schedule, which is going to be broadcast twice. A lunch show for Europe and an evening show (for me) for the afternoon in the US. We’ll be live both times, so tune in and bring your

    A long day for me, though I hope to get out to the gym between the shows. We’ll see as I’m sure I’ll have a few meetings with product groups as well.

    Register today and I’ll see you online next week. Brings lots of questions and we’ll do our best to give you the answers you need to improve your database development.

  • SQL in the City 2017

    It’s almost time for SQL in the City 2017, coming Dec 13, live from Cambridge, UK. I’ll be traveling over to England for the event, and you can stream it to your office live. Once again, we’ll be presenting the conference twice, 11am and 6pm (both GMT), and you can pick the times that work best for you.

    We’ve got a variety of sessions scheduled, and you can tune in to ask questions live, which we’ll try to answer. The full schedule is on the site, but here’s a few sessions you may want to fit in:

    • Keynote  – Data Privacy and DevOps
    • Why code standards are important and how code analysis can help
    • From DBA to DevOps hero – rapid database provisioning with SQL Clone
    • What SQL Server performance metrics should you monitor?
    • Extend DevOps to the database by automating your deployments

    We’ve been working hard at Redgate to improve our tools and build new ones that will need the needs that many organizations will have as GDPR takes effect next year. And, as always, we’re trying to save developer time with all our tools.

    Take a training day to learn a bit about privacy, security, DevOps, code analysis and more. We’ll show how Redgate can help solve some of your issues along with  plenty of good general information.

    Hope to see you online, Dec 13.

  • #ReadyRoll at #SQLintheCity

    When Redgate purchased ReadyRoll a few years ago, I wasn’t sure this was a great idea. After all, SQL Source Control and DLM Automation work really well to bundle up changes in a VCS and easily deploy them.

    However, as I worked with Daniel Nolan, the creator, and learned more about the tool, the more I liked it. After all, I’ve worked for a number of companies that used a migration strategy to make changes to our applications. I also like Visual Studio, so this was a great fit for me.

    At SQL in the City streamed last year, I presented a short talk on using ReadyRoll to deploy changes. I’ll write more about individual parts of this in 2017, but take a look at this video and see if ReadyRoll works for you.