Tomorrow Pass is sponsoring a Linux Marathon for all the SQL DBAs getting ready to go big with Linux. The schedule is jam packed with sessions on getting started with Linux, working with SQL Server on Linux and then a few sessions, including my own for essential tools that the DBA needs to work with Linux. I’m the last one on the schedule for the day, to be followed by me heading down to the south side of town for the monthly, (and very Christmas-y) SQL Server User Group meeting. If you aren’t a member of the PASS organization, it…
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In my latest blog post on the Delphix site, I continue my conversation with why DevOps is the next step for DBAs and how DBAs can embrace this next step in their evolution. This is an extensive series of blog posts, (four so far) to be followed by an ebook, a podcast and two webinars. One is to be announced soon from Oracle called, “The DBA Diaries” and the other will be a from Delphix, titled, “The Revolution: From Databases and DevOps to DataOps“. The goal for all of this is to ease transition for the Database community as the…
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Doing three or four webinars in a month doesn’t seem like a big deal until you actually try to do it…and present at two or three events and make sure you do everything for your job outside of that, too. Suddenly you find yourself scrambling to keep up, but I’m known for taking on a few too many things at once… 🙂 Tomorrow at I’ll be presenting at 24HOP, also known as the 24 Hours of Pass, which is the webinar preview of The Pass Summit conference. This is a free web event to anyone who registers, so no matter…
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I just returned from a week in Paris and it was fantastic! No amount of terrorist attack could hinder my enthusiasm for the week of vacation and although Tim and I were unaware a man with a hammer at Notre Dame would garner so much attention from the news outlets, I realized quick enough that I was in a slew of online, video and print as the major American tourist who witnessed…well, a person lying wounded on the pavement with police over him, guns drawn. I also became quickly alerted that there was a massive crowd coming towards me looking…