SQLBits 2014

Branding Yourself for a Dream Job

Everyone wants a job they enjoy and look forward to working at each day. This session will present practical techniques for improving your brand and giving you the chance to interview for the job you want.

As much as we'd like to believe that our industry is a meritocracy, it isn't. More often than not jobs are offered and awarded based on impressions, recommendations, and references as much as technical ability. This session will examine some of the practical ways that you can use networking, blogging, volunteering, research, writing, speaking, and more to build a brand that will get you noticed. When you find a job that you really want, you'll have a great chance to impress the hiring manager and get the interview, and potentially the offer.

Steve Jones's previous sessions

Blogging for the Tech Professional

Blogging is a fantastic way to attract prospective employers that want to learn more about skills. This can raise your profile, help you guide the interview process, and even help you become an MVP.

Including Your Database in a DevOps CI/CD Process

Many organizations want to build software in a DevOps framework, but struggle to include the database. Come see how Continuous Integration, Testing, and Continuous Deliver can work with a database.

Get Testing with tSQLt

tSQLt is a testing framework that is designed to help you write repeatable, isolated tests against your database code. In this session we will briefly examine the goals of testing, and introduce tSQLt with a variety of demonstrations.

Branding Yourself for a Dream Job

Everyone wants a job they enjoy and look forward to working at each day. This session will present practical techniques for improving your brand and giving you the chance to interview for the job you want.

Continuous Integration for Databases

Building software is hard, and we often find that fixing bugs is expensive if they are not caught early. Continuous Integration (CI) has proven to be a valuable technique in improving software quality and this session demonstrates CI for databases.

Searching Binary Data in SQL Server 2012

A look at binary data in SQL Server and full-text searching of the content of binary files.

Preparation for Disaster

Sooner or later some sort of disaster occur on your SQL Server instance. It might be the destruction of a server, the corruption of a page inside the database, or just the unexpected deletion of some data. When disaster does strike, will you be prepa