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The Best Bit About SQL Saturdays: Nearly Everyone Interacts with Other People

Today I was looped in on an email thread about the pros and cons of attending a specific event. One person on the thread asked if any of us had attended the event in the past, and whether or not event attendees were engaged with presenters and vendor representatives.

My immediate thought was: of course the attendees were engaged, because the event is a SQL Saturday.  I’ve never been to a SQL Saturday where the attendees weren’t engaged.

But, I realized that it’s a fair question.

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How to Recognize the Early Stages of Burnout, and My Treatment Plan

I recently realized that I’m in the early stages of burnout.

This isn’t an unfamiliar place for me, but it is new for me to recognize the early signs of burnout in myself before it becomes a full-fledged disaster. This time, I’m thinking about how I got here, and making an explicit plan to change course.

In hope of helping someone else out there, I thought some public journaling might be in order.

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Paying Down Technical Debt

One of the cool things that I do as an Evangelist at Redgate is to periodically visit company headquarters in Cambridge.

The other Evangelists and I get to meet with every software developer, product manager, and UX designer at Redgate over a series of meetings. We talk about features that teams have released lately and what teams are looking at doing in the near future. We get to give feedback based on what we hear from the community and from folks in the sales process. We also get to share what we think teams should work on.

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What Is Automation in the Software Development Life Cycle?

Today I got a bit closer to a meaningful definition of automation, as it applies to the software development process. I’ve been turning this concept over in my head for a while, which is partly related to the dreaded question of licensing.

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Should Release Cadence Be Slowed If You Don't Have Database Load Testing?

I got a question recently about a panel discussion on Database Development Disasters at SQL in the City Streamed. I had framed a question as, “how fast should development go without load or performance testing?”

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Upcoming Full Day Training: How to Architect Successful Database Changes

I’m excited to be teaching a full day session with Steve Jones at the SQL PASS Summit on Tuesday, November 5, in Seattle.

Steve and I will be discussing proven patterns to version and deploy changes successfully.

Read more about this precon session, or check out the video below where I give a brief overview of what Steve and I will cover.

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The 2019 State of SQL Server Monitoring Survey Is Open: Here's What's in It for You

Calling all Database Administrators, Developers, Analysts, Consultants, and Managers: Redgate has a survey open asking how you monitor your SQL Servers.

Take the survey before April 5, 2019.

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