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Join Me for an Upcoming Webinar on Data Masking: Insights and Actions

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There Has Never Been a Better Time to Start a Project to Champion Data Privacy

In a recent Harris poll sponsored by the payment company Stripe, over 1,000 C-level executives were asked to rate which factors they feel are most threatening to their business.

The #1 item that executives rated as “somewhat” or “very” threatening to the success of their business is security / data breaches. The #2 rated threat to these businesses? Increased regulation. 

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Watch: Getting Executive Buy-In for DevOps: 3 Top Tips (video)

High DevOps performers report greater workplace satisfaction than their peers. But implementing DevOps isn’t a matter of being great at writing code: to become a high DevOps performer, you need the powerful catalyst of executive support.

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Fix My Functions: Speeding Up Scalar and Table Valued UDFs (video)

Last week, I presented on the topic of TSQL User Defined Functions (UDFs) in SQL Server at the PASS Summit.

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PASS Summit 2018 - Day 1 Keynote Announcements

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.

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Register for My Upcoming Session on Digital Transformation

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.

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Watch: The Single Question to Predict Success for DevOps (31 Minutes)

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.

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Interviewing for Your First Tech Job - Slides

I was lucky to get an opportunity to present a session to some college students at Seminole State College in Florida last week.

About the Event

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.

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