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Tag: travel

  • Back to Boston for SQL Saturday

    I’m leaving again tomorrow for a trip. This time I head back to Boston for a Redgate DevOps in a Day on Thursday and SQL Saturday Boston 2024 on Saturday. This is a fun event and one I’ve attended the last few years. It’s one I look forward to as well.

    If you’re in the area, register and join me Saturday for a packed schedule of learning on PoSh, Fabric, TempDB, AI, and more. If you want something a little lighter, I’m doing a new session on balancing life with career.

    And if you’re coming Saturday, what about coming Friday for a pre-con with Bob Ward with a Cloud Workshop. A good, inexpensive way to get some training from one of the top technical engineers at Microsoft.

    Come join me and invest in yourself and your career at SQL Saturday Boston 2024. And if you want, come Thursday as well to our Redgate Database DevOps in a Day. 

  • Small Data SF 2024

    I have often made an effort to attend conferences in the past to grow my career. Even today, when I speak at a conference, I’ll try to go to a few sessions and learn something, but I can be distracted. It’s rare I focus on just learning stuff without other responsibilities.

    I’m at Small Data today and tomorrow doing precisely that. I’m just an attendee, and today is a couple of workshops for me with a variety of talks tomorrow. It’s a real career growth opportunity for me and I’m excited. I’m doing the Data Warehousing and Design workshops today and sitting in sessions all day tomorrow.

    I can’t remember where I heard of this conference, but when I saw the manifesto and sessions, I was intrigued. There were tentative plans this week for me to do a customer visit, but when that got delayed, I jumped on the opportunity to visit San Fran and learn something.

    As I’ve worked with a lot of customers, I see the value of small data sets providing lots of agility for teams, while also allowing them to get work done, as long as the data sets are relevant and representative. That’s a big part of me pushing the Subsetter at Redgate.

    In this case, the conference focuses more on analytics and AI, and likely more developers than DBAs, but I think it’s a chance to get different perspectives, maybe learn a few things, and perhaps get others to see my data viewpoint in the hallways discussions.

  • SQL Saturday Boston 2024 Plans

    I was accepted to speak at SQL Saturday Boston 2024, which is taking place on October 5, 2024. One month away. This is a fun event that takes place in Burlington, MA, just north of Boston. I’ve been there twice now and I’m honored and excited to go back.

    There is also a pre-con. Bob Ward is teaching an all day session on Friday, October 4th that is a Cloud Workshop for the SQL Professional. Check out the description and register today.

    Definitely come on Saturday. I have a new session that I’m working on to help you balance life and career, but there will be a bunch of other great talks. Each year I go there, I find a few interesting things to see and this year is no different. Check out the schedule and I’m sure you’ll agree.

    So click on over to https://sqlsaturday.com/boston and register for this SQL Saturday and I’ll see you next month.

  • The Redgate Summit: New York

    The final 2024 Redgate Summit in the US takes place in a few weeks, on Aug 21. Redgate Summit: The Database Landscape is coming to the Microsoft Office at Times Square in New York City and I’m excited to be going.

    You can register today and join us for a full day of learning about DevOps, database development and management, and how to build better software. We have three tracks, each full of events for the day.

    • New and Future Technologies
    • Deep Dive Solutions
    • Leadership

    We have both Redgaters and industry experts on hand to deliver a wide range of sessions and panels. I’m not sure what I’m doing yet, but I’m sure I’ll be assigned a few of the TBD speaker slots.

    Hopefully you can come enjoy a fun day in Manhattan in a few weeks. Tell your boss you want to learn how to better build and manage database software and head to the City. Then register and say hi to me in a few weeks.