Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions today at SQL Saturday South Florida. Here are the resources from today.
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What topics do you want to see presented at a future SQL Saturday (or other event)? Steve Rezhener has built a survey that you can take.
You don’t have to answer every question. Pick those you are interested in and leave the rest blank.
I’ve set up redirects at SQL Saturday as well:
I’ll do some analysis in a week or so of the results and publish something.
There are lots of resources for learning: articles at SQL Server Central, blogs, user groups, SQL Saturday and other events, conferences, and more. In most of those cases, the editor, author, or speaker is deciding what they want to write about. If you want to learn something different, you need to go search out that information. You can certainly request topics from others, but they may or may not listen to you.
At least not as an individual.
Steve Rezhener put together a survey for what topics you’d like to learn about. A few others, including myself, gave him feedback and he’s published this for people to use. It was intended for SQL Saturday organizers and speakers, but it can work well for anyone producing information. I’ve created some shortlinks at SQL Saturday that you can use to take the survey and see the results.
This is open-ended, and none of the items are required. It’s long, but just answer the items you care about. While it does ask for places you’d attend events, you can answer or leave this blank. I love surveys like this one, since I can pick and choose and don’t have to answer every question.
I plan on analyzing this data every month or so and publishing a report, which helps me decide what to request or publish here, but also which topics I might speak on in the future or what I might plan a SQL Saturday around. I would love to see more niche events, especially virtual ones. If some of you out there want to be an MVP, run a virtual event on your niche topic. Ping me and I’ll help you get going.
The results of a survey like this might also help you decide where you should drive your career. If a lot of people are interested in something, likely it’s relevant to their jobs. Perhaps you ought to follow the crowd a bit if you aren’t sure what things might bring opportunities for you in the future.
If you’d like to see more topics or different choices, drop Steve a note and I’m sure he can add to the form.
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I’m off on Thursday for Salt Lake City and a SQL Saturday on Friday. SQL Saturday Salt Lake City 2024 is happening, and I’m glad I get to go. I was looking forward to this last year, but it got postponed with venue issues. This year, the timing worked well since I am coaching Sat/Sun/Mon already, so this was an easy trip for me.
I’ll be presenting my Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments session, looking at splitting up deployments and coordinating with feature flags in your application.
The schedule has some great sessions. A mix of SQL Server, PostgreSQL, design/modeling, and more.
If you’re in/near/willing to go to Salt Lake City, come join me Friday, Apr 5. You can register here.
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