The short summer break is over, and conference treadmill is about to get underway again. I have a few things already on the calendar! July 27th – SQL Saturday Baton Rouge! Migrating High IO SQL Server Workloads to Azure for the Win August 31st- Data Saturday Oslo- Navigating and Thriving in the Age of AI Sept. 7th- Data Saturday Dallas– I’ll be doing two sessions- Relational Database Instant Extracts to Fabric and Turning ADHD into “Awesome Dynamic Highly Dependable” It’s also been announced that Nov. 2nd I’ll be the keynote speaker for SQL Saturday SW Washington and Oregon again this…
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Along with presenting the keynote at SQL Saturday Oregon this weekend, I will be taking the SQL Train up to PASS Summit for the next week’s conference. I will be on the WIT panel, as well as presenting with Chris Yates in a Professional Power Hour: Journey to Management on how to transition from a technical role to management. As much as I enjoy the technical aspect of my career, it was a careful navigation for me to ensure that my neurodiverse self was fulfilled as I moved up the ladder to my current Director position at Silk. If you’re…
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I’ve been pretty busy with work and travel, but I finally got an official Silk Github repository to publish a couple new white papers and sizing assessment worksheets for customer access. These are primarily Oracle and SQL Server to Azure focused white papers, but I will be publishing ones on GCP next, to be followed by AI and other database platforms soon. White Papers The A2Z on Oracle for Azure The A2Z on SQL Server to the Cloud The slides for the session that is part of the research that went into the white paper above can be found here. …
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Here is what’s going on for me at Silk for the month of August! I’ve served in the role as Director of Technical Advocacy at Silk for just over 2 months. It’s been a productive months, helping out with Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and other workloads on Azure and Google Cloud interested in running with Silk. I love the energy from each of the teams at the company and enjoy the opportunity to contribute to all the different aspects of the business here. I want to thank the sales teams for keeping me engaged. I also would like to curse…
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I’m still not sure where October went….well, actually I do- it was a flurry of travel, writing, (but not blogging!) and working with customers on a ton of new projects for the next quarter. With the end of October, comes the preparation for PASS Summit. Last year, I had to pass on the SQL Train, but this year? SQL Train is the annual pilgrimage from SQL Saturday Oregon, in Portland, to PASS Summit in Seattle via Amtrak train. Chris Hyde is the poor, tortured soul responsible for organizing this, but I hear that if you say you’ll volunteer, it’s like…
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Tim and I just arrived back in Colorado yesterday and just arrived- as in Grand Junction, Colorado on the western border of Utah. Hauling a 42Ft. 5th wheel means that you make some considerations on how far you can go and how far you want to go. It’s going to be a busy couple of weeks and this is what’s in the plans: Microsoft Education Data Summit I’ll be flying to Las Vegas tomorrow morning to attend and train in Las Vegas with the rest of my technical peers in the education sector of Microsoft. I look forward to these…