I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018 on the conference runs from April 9th 2018 through April 12th 2018. This is an incredible event packed with fantastic content and speakers. Check out the amazing schedule! All the data you need on going is in this excellent brochure right here!
This year I have two sessions!
On Tuesday, April 10th at 2:00PM – I’m presenting “OpenSSH Internals for PowerShell Pros”
On 12/13 I’m presenting two, back to back, sessions on SQL Server on Linux online. So you can attend from anywhere!
Let’s go through both!
First, on 12/13 at 1PM Central, I’m presenting for the PASS Database Administration Virtual Group here’s my session details:
Topic: Linux OS Fundamentals for the SQL Admin
Registration: You must register if you want to attend. You can register at http://dba.pass.org/. When you register, you will receive a link to the meeting. All attendees will be entered into a raffle for a $25 gift card.
New Pluralsight Course – SQL Server on Linux Administration Fundamentals
My new course **“SQL Server on Linux Administration Fundamentals”** in now available on Pluralsight <a href="https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/sql-linux-administration-fundamentals">here</a>! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer <a href="https://www.pluralsight.com/player?name=a0d5ed59-1d43-4233-ae90-b5b391e8d43d&mode=live&clip=0&course=sql-linux-administration-fundamentals">here</a> or if you want to dive right in check it out <a href="https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/sql-linux-administration-fundamentals">here</a>!
This course targets DBAs that design and maintain SQL Server on Linux systems (or those evaluating the technology). This course can be used by both the seasoned DBA to learn foundational Linux skills and also what’s new and different when running SQL Server on Linux.
**Course Description**
SQL Server is available on Linux, and management wants you to leverage this shift in technology to more effectively manage your data platform. In this course, SQL Server on Linux Administration Fundamentals, you’ll delve into SQL on Linux in order for you to become an effective DBA. First, you'll explore an overview of its architecture, installation, and configuration. Next, you'll learn how to administer SQL Server on Linux. Finally, you'll discover high availability and disaster recovery options available to you for keeping your SQL Server online. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid foundation necessary to utilize SQL Server on Linux in production.
The modules of the course are:
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**Introduction and SQL Server Architecture** – Introduce the viewer into world of SQL Server on Linux. Why did Microsoft do this? What’s the strategy? Introduce the SQL Server Ecosphere, such as the database engine, SQL Server Agent and SSIS.
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**Installing and Configuring SQL Server on Linux** – We’ll look at our installation and configuration options for SQL Server on Linux, introducing Linux package managers and repositories and install SQL Server on Linux and it’s components.
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**Administering Linux for DBAs** – We’ll look at managing services with systemd and how to query journald’s log files for information about SQL Server. Also dive into file ownership, disk partitioning concepts and mounting file systems and remote file systems.
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**Managing SQL Server on Linux: Administration and Tools** – Now that the viewer knows where things are in this new operating system, let’s move up the stack and look at the tooling available for SQL Server on Linux. We’ll cover VS Code, SSMS, SQLCMD and DBFS.
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**High Availability and Disaster Recovery with SQL Server on Linux** – Dive into the High Availability and Disaster Recovery options available to SQL Server on Linux<br />
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Check out the course at <a href="https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/sql-linux-administration-fundamentals">Pluralsight</a>!
PASS Summit is right around the corner and I’ll be there speaking on Monitoring Linux Performance for the SQL Server Admin!
There’s a fantastic amount of SQL Server on Linux content available at Summit. I encourage you to attend one of these sessions. You’ll likely find me at all of these!
I’m proud to announce that I will be delivering two sessions at IT/Dev Connections in San Francisco! This is my second year at IT/Dev Connections, real content for IT pros!
Tuesday, 10/24/2017: 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm
Room: Contiental 7
Abstract
Once data leaves your SQL Server do you know what happens or is the world of networking a black box to you? Would you like to know how data is packaged up and transmitted to other systems and what to do when things go wrong? Are you tired of being frustrated with the network team? In this session we introduce how data moves between systems on networks and TCP/IP internals. We’ll discuss real world scenarios showing you how your network’s performance impacts the performance of your SQL Server and even your recovery objectives.
My new course “LFCE: Linux Service Management – HTTP Services” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in check it out here!
This course targets IT professionals that design and maintain RHEL/CentOS based enterprises. It aligns with the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) and Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE) and also Redhat’s RHCSA and RHCE certifications. The course can be used by both the IT pro learning new skills and the senior system administrator preparing for the certification exam
Next week I’ll be speaking at TechMentor in Redmond, I’m doing a 1/2 day workshop on Linux OS Fundamentals for the Windows Admin be sure to come see me!
If you’re there on Monday night (August 7th) and let’s get together for dinner! We’ll talk tech and hopefully make a few new friends and networking connections!
Where – We’ll start at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue, light appetizers will be provided. Then we’ll head on over to Lot No. 3 for dinner. I’ll pick up the first round of drinks and the appetizers!
I’ll be speaking at TechMentor, August 7-11 at Microsoft HQ in Redmond. Surrounded by your fellow IT professionals, TechMentor provides you with in-depth, immediately usable training that will keep you relevant in the workforce.
I’ll be presenting the following session: Workshop: Linux OS Fundamentals for the Windows Admin – this will be a fun session getting you started on your road to Linux proficiency, we’ll install Linux together and work through things like command line syntax, building complex commands with pipeline, performance basics and package management.
I’m very pleased to announce that I will be speaking at PASS Summit 2017! This is my first time speaking at PASS Summit and I’m very excited to be doing so! What’s more, is I get to help blaze new ground on a emerging technology SQL Server on Linux! My session is “Monitoring Linux Performance for the SQL Server Admin” so if you’re a Windows or SQL Server administrator, this session is for you. We’ll look at some of the internals of SQL Server on Linux and dive into Linux OS internals and show you where to look inside Linux for most important performance data for your SQL Server. I hope to see you there!
This past year has certainly been interesting in the world of Linux. Microsoft has taken a new strategy and is embracing the open source model. It’s releasing it’s key software products with versions for Linux. It’s truly a remarkable time. In this post I want to highlight some of the bigger events and cover what does this mean to you and where you can go do get some training on these topics.