I’m excited to be teaching a full day session with Steve Jones at the SQL PASS Summit on Tuesday, November 5, in Seattle.
Steve and I will be discussing proven patterns to version and deploy changes successfully.
Read more about this precon session, or check out the video below where I give a brief overview of what Steve and I will cover.
Are you interested in speaking at the Professional Association for SQL Server’s annual Summit conference?
The call for speakers is now open, and you may submit up to three sessions between now and March 31, 2019.
I’m sketching out my ideas for what sessions that I’d like to submit, and I thought I’d share my process here.
I’ve been working as an Evangelist at Redgate for close to six months now, and one question keeps coming up: what exactly does an Evangelist do at a software company? In 21 minutes, I explain the core mission of Evangelists, and why I think being part of the sales process is an important part of the future of software evangelism.
A magical thing happened this week in the SQL Community Slack (it’s free to join, sign up here).
In the midst of a discussion about the cost of attending conferences, Benni De Jagere shared the following tweet from Cathrine Wilhelmsen:
Did you know that ALL the session recordings from PASS Summit 2017 (and earlier) are available for free? :) Get your learning on here: https://pass.org/Learning/Recordings/Listing.aspx?category=Summit #SQLPass #PASSsummit #SQLFamily
I recently got together with fellow Microsoft Data Platform MVPs Steve Jones, Kathi Kellenberger and Grant Fritchey to discuss the highlights of innovations we’ve seen in 2018 and predictions for 2019.
I’ve become a PowerPoint fan for a couple of reasons. First, I’ve gotten fairly proficient with PowerPoint, so I can put together presentations quickly and my slides carry greater impact. Also, the PowerPoint team has added features that I believe help me deliver presentations more effectively.
This describes one of those features: the new ‘Zoom’ functionality.
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