Category: DBA Fundamentals

What’s On?

July is a pretty busy month for the DBA Fundamentals Virtual Group with 3 seperate sessions being made available for the SQL Community. As well as giving away discount codes to the PASS Summit.

If you haven’t considered going before, now may be the time to do so. Nearly every review of the summit has people saying that they consider it to be the start of their careers, which is pretty high praise!

Use our discount code VC15GBQ6 for $150.00 off the cost of PASS Summit; currently $1895.00 until the 23rd of July. With the discount code now it will be $1745.00.
Also if you use our code, you will be entered in a drawing for one winner to get a $500.00 Amazon Gift Card.

The next big date for the PASS Summit price is the 23rd of July as the cost goes up another $300-400 after that!

Sessions.

DevOPs and the DBA

Hamish Watson ( blog | twitter ), 11th July, 12:30 – 13:30 Brisbane (10th July, 02:30 – 03:30 UTC)

Register: dbafun.org

You may have heard the word “DevOps” and wondered whether it is just another buzzword and/or what it can do for you.

In this session I will demystify the concepts of DevOps and we will look at two aspects of DevOps – Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery.

Continuous Integration is the practice in which software developers frequently integrate their work with that of other members of the development team. It also involves automating tests around the integrated work.

Continuous Delivery is the next step after Continuous Integration in the deployment pipeline and is the process of automating the deployment of software to test, staging, and production environments.

Database migrations/changes are an area that may not be typically automated or utilise Continuous Delivery.

Through the use of a comprehensive live demo to a running production database the audience will learn the benefits and how to implement Continuous Delivery in their database systems deployment pipeline.

Hamish Watson is a Systems Management Specialist with a passion for efficient application deployment using DevOps methodologies.

He has 19 years IT experience in managing large scale databases on JADE & SQL Server technologies. He has been managing SQL Server since SQL Server 2000 and pragmatic architectural design is his main focus at Jade Software.

Educating and helping others learn is a driver for Hamish and he is a PASS Chapter Leader, International speaker and a repeat guest lecturer at a local university. Follow him at @TheHybridDBA or at https://hybriddbablog.com

SQL Server Performance Tuning Made Easy

Pinal Dave ( blog | twitter ), 11th July, 11:00 – 12:00 (11th July, 16:00 – 17:00 UTC)

Register: dbafun.org

:SQL Server Performance Tuning is still a mystery to many. Quite often even an experienced SQL Server DBA, often gets confused as to how to figure out where to start with this entire process. In this module we are going to learn about how to get started with SQL Server Performance Tuning. We will go over some very important scripts which will help us to get started with the SQL Server Performance Tuning exercise. At the end of the session the author will share his three important scripts which he uses at his customer sites all the time.

Pinal Dave has been a part of the industry for more than eleven years. During his career he has worked both in India and the US, mostly working with SQL Server Technology – right from version 6.5 to its latest form. Pinal has worked on many performance tuning and optimization projects for high transactional systems. He received his Master of Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelors of Engineering from Gujarat University. Additionally, he holds many Microsoft certificates. He has been a regular speaker at many international events like TechEd, SQL PASS, MSDN, TechNet and countless user groups.

Pinal writes frequently writes on his blog http://blog.sqlauthority.com on various subjects regarding SQL Server technology and Business Intelligence. His passion for the community drives him to share his training and knowledge. His previous experience includes Technology Evangelist at Microsoft and Sr. Consultant at SolidQ. Prior to joining Microsoft he was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for three continuous years for his outstanding community service and evangelizing SQL Server technology. He was also awarded the Community Impact Award – Individual Contributor.

Extending DevOps to SQL Server

Grant Fritchey ( blog | twitter ), 18th July, 11:00 – 12:00 (18th July, 16:00 – 17:00 UTC)

Register: dbafun.org

Most organizations are under pressure to speed up the software delivery cycle, whether that’s to respond more quickly to the needs of the business, the needs of your customers or just to keep up with the competition. Unfortunately the database is commonly considered a bottleneck. Without the right processes in place, database change management can slow things down, adding risk, uncertainty, and getting in the way of development and operations working together to deliver. Any organization that wants to fully benefit from a DevOps approach is going to have to overcome some specific challenges presented by the database. This session will teach you how to take DevOps principles and practices and apply them to SQL Server so that you can speed up the database delivery cycle at the same time you protect the information contained within.

Grant Fritchey, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, has more than twenty years’ experience in IT. That time was spent in technical support, development and database administration. Grant currently works as a Product Evangelist at Red Gate Software. Grant writes articles for publication at SQL Server Central and Simple-Talk. He has published several books including, “SQL Server Execution Plans” and “SQL Server Query Performance Tuning.” Grant Fritchey currently serves on the Board of Directors of the PASS organization, the leading source of educational content and training on the Microsoft Data Platform, as the Executive Vice President in charge of governance and finance. Grant teaches and presents at events, large and small, all over the world.

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