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Tag: webinar

  • ReadyRoll and Octopus Deploy Webinar

    I’ll be hosting a webinar next week, Thursday, July 28, with Daniel Nolan (t) (founder of ReadyRoll and fellow Redgate employee) and Damian Brady (b | t) of Octopus Deploy.

    We’ll be talking deployment, with demos to show you how to work with ReadyRoll for your deployment and then how to build a package to be automatically deployed though Octopus Deploy. Both are great products that I enjoy working with.

    Register today if you’re interested in seeing how migration based development and deployment works with ReadyRoll and Octopus Deploy.

  • Getting Started with Database DevOps, DLM, and New Tools

    Next Tuesday is the next installment of our DLM series from Redgate. I’m off the hook, with Grant and Arneh showing off Git, Team City, and Octopus Deploy as the main tools. Register today and see how you can get started.

    We’ve been running this series for a year, with a focus on showing different tools being used to deploy database changes. Of course, we do showcase some Redgate tools from the Toolbelt, but the idea is to integrate with various other common development tools.

    68_dlm dashboard red wfillIf you’re looking for an easy way to get started, consider downloading and trying DLM Dashboard, a free tool to audit and monitor your database schemas.

    If you’ve missed any, you can see these combinations of Version Control, CI, and Release tools:

      Version Control Continuous Integration/Build Release Management/Deployment
    Webinar link Git TFS Build in VSTS Microsoft Release Management
    Webinar link TFSVC TeamCity Octopus Deploy
    Webinar link TFSVC Jenkins Octopus Deploy
    Webinar link Subversion (SVN) TeamCity Octopus Deploy
    Webinar link TFSVC TFS Build in VSTS Microsoft Release Management

    Feel free to watch any of these, or come to the next webinar and ask questions live. There are more resources in our DLM library.

    DLM really can help smooth your development and deployment process, reducing mistakes, and allowing you to deliver enhancements to customers faster.

  • Webinar: Unit Testing with SQL Server and tSQLt

    I ran into Sebastian Meine at the PASS Summit a few weeks ago and we were talking testing. Sebastian is the founder and developer of tSQLt, which I really like using. We’ve done some teaching together and I’ve delivered a number of sessions on tSQLt at various events, but we wanted to get more people interested in testing code.

    I had a session at PASS, which was very well attended. 150+ people came, which was stunning to me. I was expecting to see 20, and afterwards Sebastian and I started talking about what else we could do.

    We’ve decided to do a webinar, but one driven by you. We are looking for you to ask questions about code you’d like tested, or which you’re unsure of how to approach. Leave a comment here, or put your question in the webinar registration. The details are:

    Unit Testing in SQL Server with tSQLt
    https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7623481833734658561
    Thurs, Nov 19, 2015 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT

    Join unit testing experts Steve Jones and Sebastian Meine for this exciting opportunity to learn about unit testing and the tSQLt framework to improve your T-SQL code quality and maintainability. If this day/time is not good for you, register anyway so you receive a link to the recording when it is available.

  • Prepare for Disaster Webinar

    I’ve been asked by Red Gate to give my “Prepare for Disaster session on a webinar on July 23, 2013. It will be at 10:00am MST/12:00pm EST/ 5:00pm GMT.  This is a session that talks about some of the disaster issues I’ve faced, and you might face. I then “rewind the clock” and look at ways that we can prepare ahead of time and either prevent, or mitigate the impact of the issues.

    The registration link is here.

    For once I’m doing this from the comfort of home instead of being on the road somewhere, which is good and bad. I don’t love presenting webinars, since I really like the audience feedback. Talking to the wall isn’t something I enjoy. However I don’t have the hassles of travel, the time away from home, and I get to sleep in my own bed. All in all, it’s a win.

    If you’re interested in learning about how to get ready for disasters ahead of time, register and I’ll see you on the 23rd.