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Tag: travel

  • Heading to SQL Bits 2025

    I’ll be at SQL Bits tomorrow, Saturday Jun 20, 2025 for the final day of the conference. I wasn’t selected to speak, but since I’m in Cambridge next week I came a couple of days early to stop by the event.

    As this publishes, I’m probably just about to land at Heathrow and I am looking forward to a fairly quiet day in London.

    Tomorrow should be fun. I have lightly looked at the schedule and I see a few AI sessions that might be fun to watch, but mostly I’m looking forward to catching up with friends.

    If you see me, please don’t hesitate to say hi.

  • Speaking at the NYC Lunch and Learn DevOps Devour Hour

    This Friday is the NYC DevOps Devour hour, which is actually 3 hours. Plus a happy hour.

    I’ll be there with Kendra Little and Erik Darling talking about DevOps stuff. You can register now and join me in Manhattan from 12:00-3:00p at the 3rd Avenue Industrious office.

    We’ll be talking performance problems, cloud migration, and deployment architecture. Come join us if you can.

  • A DevOps Workshop Tomorrow in Atlanta

    Tomorrow is the Redgate DevOps Day in Atlanta. You can still sign up, so do that if you can make it. Here’s the rough outline

    • Vision Session – w/ Advocate Steve Jones
    • Redgate Flyway hands-on Session
    • 6 ways to Elevate Database Monitoring
    • Whiteboarding Session
    • Test Data Manager Demo Session
    • Networking/Happy Hour

    Lunch is provided and I’m looking forward to this. I’m traveling from Baton Rouge today to Atlanta (probably right now), coming from a customer visit.

    Register and come see me in Atlanta tomorrow

  • SQL Saturday New York City 2025 is Back!

    After missing last year, SQL Saturday New York City is back in 2025. I’m excited to go to the event and honored to speak there. I love visiting New York and I’m looking forward to the trip, as is Mrs Way0utwest, who is coming along for a little vacation. Hopefully we’ll find a fun show to see Saturday night.

    There is a precon this year from Andreas Wolter, longtime SQL Server Program Manager  at Microsoft. It’s on practical performance tuning and troubleshooting, and you can register and attend on Friday.

    Saturday has a great schedule the includes a wide variety of topics. Data virtualization, Power BI, development in a 24/7 environment, Cost optimization, and of course, a lot of Fabric. I’ll be talking about the Data API Builder, which is a cool piece of tech to quickly get those CRUD apps going.

    Pass the word, and come into the city on May 11 for a fun event. Register today and I’ll see you later this week.