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Off to SQL Saturday Salt Lake City … on Friday

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.

April 2, 2024
Atlanta for Two Days

Today is the first Redgate Summit of 2024 in Atlanta. I flew to town yesterday,

There is a packed schedule, which is mostly repeated at our other events coming up in the next few months. I’m especially busy, somehow getting roped into 5 sessions. Fortunately a few are panels, so it hasn’t been too much prep or rehearsal.

I’ve rarely been to Atlanta in my life. We had a SQL in the City here a few years back, but otherwise, I haven’t traveled to the city. My wife used to come here often, but this is only my second trip.

Last night was meeting a few speakers and networking. Tonight, I’m likely to lay low as it’s going to be a long day. The Hawks are out of town, so I’m likely to get a quiet dinner and decompress before an early flight tomorrow.

Hopefully I’ll get to town at some point in the future and spend more time wandering around.

March 13, 2024
The Redgate Summit in Atlanta
Navigating the Database Landscape is the headline of our Redgate Summit in Atlanta on Mar 13. I’m doing the Keynote with Grant Fritchey and Kathi Kellenberger with this title, and we’re also presenting a few other sessions.

We’ve partnered with Octopus Deploy and a number of community experts to bring you thought leaderships, panels, product demos, and more. It’s a packed schedule with three tracks, great good, and some inspiring conversations.

I hope you can join me if you’re in the area that week. Register today for Atlanta.

We also have Summits coming to these cities:
March 4, 2024
Another Fun Photoshoot
It’s been three weeks in a row I’ve been in the Austin airport. First was corporate annual kickoff, which was a lot of fun seeing and chatting with people that I don’t often get to spend time with. This week was THAT Conference in Round Rock. However, last week was the most interesting.

Our Database DevOps Rocks tour was very successful last year, and we decided to do another one in 2024. I went to Austin last year for a photoshoot with the van, and ended up with some fun pics. One of my favorites is here:

The 2024 Tour

Rather than a van, we wanted to go bigger this year. Someone proposed a plane at Summit, and I thought that was interesting. I wasn’t sure this would work, but it did. I flew to Austin last week with Grant for a quick shoot.

Someone is working on post production of pictures, and some video. We shot a lot of stuff for promo videos and commercials, so the final results will be different, but here are a few fun ones.

Grant and I sat in a couple old first-class Delta seats in the hanger.

We were given the jackets and sunglasses for props, which was fun. We took turns changing them. Here’s Grant modeling the jacket in front of the plane with our photographer giving him instructions.

I even got to walk on the runway, which was slightly unnerving. However, it was super foggy, so no planes were coming or going. Still, it was neat to stand out there. Something I haven’t done.

I’m looking forward to the final props, and also the tour. I’m only on part of it, but there a few places scheduled for me:
- San Jose
- Atlanta
- London
- Chicago
- Brisbane
- Sydney
- Melbourne
Maybe a few more, but we’ll see.
February 2, 2024