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Upcoming Events

Weekly Database DevOps Live Chats – a new experiment on YouTube

How to Make Your 2020 Monitoring Strategy a Success – Wed, Nov 20th – 8 AM Pacific / 11 AM Eastern – Register

Essential Practices for High Performing Database DevOps Teams – Tue, Nov 26th – 8 AM Pacific / 11 AM Eastern – Register

Why the Database is at the Heart of DevOps Success – Fri, Nov 29 – 6:00 AM Pacific / 9:00 AM Eastern / 3PM CET – ScaleUp 360 online conference – Register

Managing and Automating Test Datasets for DevOps – Weds, Dec 4 – 7:30 AM Pacific / 10:30 AM Eastern – Register

Recent Recordings

Redgate Evangelist YouTube Channel: Tutorials on Database DevOps -New videos each week – Watch

Fast and Reliable Development with Redgate Solutions for SQL Server – Watch

Implementing Data Masking for NIST Compliance – 1 hour – Watch

How Developers and DBAs Collaborate in a DevOps World – 40 minutes – Watch

How DevOps Keeps DBAs Safe from Being Automated Out of a Job – 1 hour – Watch

DevOps: What, who, why and how? – 1 hour – Watch

Can This Team Succeed at DevOps? Panel discussion – 1 hour – Watch

Upcoming Free Webinars on Database Development and Operations

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Fall is in swing, and it’s officially webinar season! Here’s a bunch of free events I’ve got on my calendar. Weekly Database DevOps Live Chats – a new experiment on YouTube Stop by to chat! In this session I’ll be talking about what I’ve learned lately, what’s new in Redgate products, and whatever comes up with those who stop by live. Weds, Nov 20th – 9:30 am Pacific – YouTube Link (30 minutes)Weds, Nov 27th – 9:30 am Pacific – YouTube Link (30 minutes) How to Make Your 2020 Monitoring Strategy a Success Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow! I’ll be chatting with BMW’s Tony Maddonna about monitoring in the real world. (The invite says my name is Arneh Eskandari, but I’ll be subbing in for Arneh as he’s been called away to Jury Duty.) Wed, Nov 20th – 8 AM Pacific / 11 AM Eastern – Register Essential Practices for High Performing…
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Links and Resources from “How to Architect Successful Database Changes”

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Group exercises beginning around the room Steve Jones and I had a great time today talking about source control for databases and release patterns for performance and availability in Seattle. We had a great group of folks who asked terrific questions, made thoughtful comments, and interacted throughout the day. Here are some links and resources from the day… Suggestion for configuration option to make SQL Server Developer Edition act like Standard Edition This has been requested by the community for many years, but now is the right time to please vote up this suggestion. After all, Microsoft just made Transparent Data Encryption as well as a whole slew of other cool things available in Standard Edition in SQL Server 2019. Things have really changed in Microsoft, and your voice matters — voting and commenting helps! The unnecessary evil of the shared development database Troy Hunt‘s amazing post from 2011 is…
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Why I Make Animated Gifs for Presentation Demo Backups

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PASS Summit 2019 starts up next Monday with pre-conference sessions. I’ve got my schedule all set, and I’m going to be busy: I’m speaking in two full-day pre-conference sessions, giving two regular sessions, judging the ever-exciting Speaker Idol competition, and also spending time at the Redgate booth in the expo hall. Oh, and I scored a little PASS-TV interview to talk about Redgate right before the keynote on the first day. (SQUEE!) I am super lucky to have all these awesome activities lined up, but one thing is clear… I need to be PREPARED I will not have a lot of time to react if something goes wrong, such as laptop failure, a critical VM that won’t boot up, poor internet connection, etc. When it comes to my talks, I keep copies of my presentations in the cloud and on USB keys in case my laptop fails– that’s no big…
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Thinking About Robert Davis

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It’s been more than a year and a half since Robert Davis passed away. I wrote a bit about Robert’s passing last April. I haven’t written about him since, but I think about Robert a lot. I think about Robert when I work on a tough problem that he would have found interesting, when chatting about database nerdery on Twitter, when preparing for a conference or training that I know he would have been excited to attend. I remember him when I get a great new photo of one of my dogs, because I know he would have loved to see it. When I remember Robert now, I remember how delighted he was to solve all sorts of puzzles, and I remember the sound of his laughter. He helps me try to remember to be kind. To be more helpful to others. I don’t have a big takeaway or piece…
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Building my schedule for PASS Summit 2019

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It’s just ten days until PASS Summit 2019 begins in Seattle. The schedule is up and there are loads of good sessions. Here’s what I’m putting on my calendar to make sure that I don’t miss it — along with some things that I wish I could attend that I’ll be sure to catch the videos of afterwards. Monday, Nov 4: “Redgate SQL in the City Summit Seattle” Pre-Con Day – Room 3AB This is going to be a fantastic day — loads of DevOps learning and sharing. I’ll be talking about implementing and improving Database DevOps with some of my very favorite DevOps and SQL Server specialists: Steve Jones, Grant Fritchey, Ike Ellis, Hamish Watson, and Arneh Eskandari. The great thing about having a list of speakers like this is that you get to hear about varied real-world experiences and different takes on topics, plus there is loads of…
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Workshop Report: Overcoming Obstacles on the Journey to Continuous Delivery for Databases (video with transcript)

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I am living the dream, y’all: yesterday I was finishing up my workday and needed to record a video, but realized that our puppy had spent enough time in her crate for the day already. So, I did the obvious: she’s my co-star in the video. This is what YouTube is for, right? In this video, Freyja the puppy and I talk about a recent workshop which I facilitated at the IDC DevOps conference in London. We cover: 01:45 The workshop methodology: about the Lightning Decision Jam Session, by AJ&Smart / Jonathan Courtney. I think this is a great format, and you may want to use this yourself for a workshop with your team (on any problem-solving topic)05:33 Key findings from our group about how to overcome the top obstacles to Continuous delivery for databases A transcript of the session is below the video. Transcript (edited a bit for clarity)…
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