Good morning from Seattle, at the Summit for the Professional Association of SQL Server.
I’m lucky enough to be sitting at the blogger table this morning, watching the keynote of announcements.
I’m excited to have a session accepted to GroupBy, a free online conference targeting the Microsoft data platform community. The conference is sponsored by Brent Ozar Unlimited, and sessions are chosen by community votes.
My session will be given on Fri, Dec 21, along with five other terrific looking sessions. You should register for GroupBy here.
What if you could assess the performance level of your team by asking one simple question? In his recent webinar with Redgate, Gene Kim (@realgenekim) suggests that you can.
I was lucky to get an opportunity to present a session to some college students at Seminole State College in Florida last week.
I was in town for SQL Saturday Orlando– a fantastic event on its own. The organizers run a simultaneous seminar for students at the college studying software development and IT topics, and it’s an opportunity where they can hear from professionals in IT professions. I gave a session on interviewing best practices.
In this 20 minute session, I define scrum, continuous deployment, test driven development, DevOps, and related concepts.
I close with a quick discussion of why Database Administrators and Developers should care about DevOps.
I recently set up Redgate’s SQL Change Automation in Visual Studio 2017, and I ran into a confusing error when I started trying to use it. For any other folks out there searching on “Unknown SQL Server Platform,” here’s how I got past it.
Spoiler: Visual Studio suggested updating Microsoft’s SQL Server Data Tools, which failed for me and wasted a lot of time. Updating Visual Studio did fix my issue.
Every now and again, someone asks if I write romance novels.
Why? Well, let’s ask Bing who Kendra Little is….
To clarify, I am not married, I have dogs instead of children, and I prefer romances about strong women who bring SQL Servers to their knees.
I also don’t think it’s possible to drink too much coffee.
Most of those pictures are of me, but a careful reader will note that the biography at the top references a domain name that, sadly, dear reader, I do not own. Someone out there named Kendra Little gets sweet royalties from her contemporary romance novels, but they don’t come to this address.
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