I love breaking technology.
I love breaking technology on purpose, in a place where it’s not going to slow anyone else down. It’s a great way to learn more about how everything works and what your options are to fix the situation when things go sideways.
I’m excited to have just clicked ‘publish’ on four new videos in the brand new Advocate playlist on Redgate’s YouTube channel.
These videos step through setting up and working with a project in one of my favorite Redgate tools: SQL Change Automation.
I’ve been working as an Evangelist at Redgate for close to six months now, and one question keeps coming up: what exactly does an Evangelist do at a software company? In 21 minutes, I explain the core mission of Evangelists, and why I think being part of the sales process is an important part of the future of software evangelism.
One controversial topic in database development is how to properly store and deploy database changes.
This is generally described as choosing between two options, which are approximately as easy to understand as Greek philosophy:
Jobs change over time, and database administrator jobs are no different. In this 35 minute recorded Twitch livestream (my first ever!) I talk about threats to DBA jobs and the related opportunities.
Next week, I’m giving a free webcast for Redgate on DevOps fundamentals. DevOps is something I am a big proponent of for database administrators, developers, and company leaders.
I’ll cover three points which are often the source of misunderstandings.
A magical thing happened this week in the SQL Community Slack (it’s free to join, sign up here).
In the midst of a discussion about the cost of attending conferences, Benni De Jagere shared the following tweet from Cathrine Wilhelmsen:
Did you know that ALL the session recordings from PASS Summit 2017 (and earlier) are available for free? :) Get your learning on here: https://pass.org/Learning/Recordings/Listing.aspx?category=Summit #SQLPass #PASSsummit #SQLFamily
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