Amid the global pandemic, online tech conferences have had a natural surge in popularity. I’ve attended quite a few of these in 2020 across several technical areas (database tech, DevOps, privacy, tech research). The conferences have been both large and small, both free and paid, and have been held across a few different regions and time zones.
This post is part of the monthly TSQLTuesday blog event. This month’s topic is from Taiob Ali.
It’s Down Tools Week at Redgate.
In this episode, I share what “Down Tools Week” is, what I’m working on this week, and why I think it’s a terrific experience for fostering creativity, innovation, and teamwork. In closing I share some thoughts on variations of this kind of project which you might use in your own organization.
I’ve begun working on developing a couple of small habits this month, thanks largely to Andy Mallon’s helpful advocacy.
Years ago, I worked on a fabulous team of eight database administrators
We supported more than a hundred developers who worked in an agile fashion. When I first joined the DBA team, we had a shared on-call rotation, but each DBA specialized in a certain area of the environment and regularly met with the development teams working on that area. DBA specializations rarely shifted.
Redgate is growing, and we have some fresh, new open positions around the world which would be a great fit for SQL Server developers or DBAs who would like to transition to a customer-facing role and develop expertise in Redgate’s solutions for Compliant Database DevOps. Here are the listings and locations for three of these roles:
I was fascinated yesterday to come across the term, “Database Reliability Engineering,” which I hadn’t seen before.
In this 22 minute whiteboarding session, I talk about why we need new terms for “Database Administration,” and my initial understanding of what Database Reliability Engineering means by comparison.
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