Jess Pomfret

There’s often a few things we like to check on every morning with our first cup of coffee\tea\juice. Depending on your role this list might be different – but with this session I’ll teach you how to automate a list of checks, and have them auto-magically delivered to your inbox every day.

Managing Azure SQL or Fabric SQL by hand doesn’t scale. In this workshop, Jess Pomfret and Rob Sewell show you how to deploy both your Azure SQL infrastructure and your database schemas as code.

This talk demonstrates how GitHub Actions can be leveraged with PowerShell and SQL Server to streamline database operations and implement DevOps practices for your database environment.

Ben and Rob have found some wonderful folk to actually do the important parts of the community keynote. on the theme of How to be a nonpassive member of the data community

dbatools is an open source PowerShell module. This session will walk through several life hacks that you can take back to work and quickly implement to make your life easier and impress your friends.

Get on the cutting edge by implementing infrastructure as code for your SQL Server environment. Using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) we'll look at how to take a newly built Windows Server and get it ready for prime time while discussing the benefits associated with infrastructure as code.

dbatools is an open source PowerShell module with over 500 commands to assist you with managing your SQL Server estate. This session will walk through several life hacks that you can take back to work and quickly implement to make your life easier and impress your friends.

Since data compression is now a standard level feature (2016 SP1+) learn how to squeeze a little extra performance out of your databases for free! We’ll cover the types of compression available, the costs and benefits and how to determine good candidates for compression.