Microsoft Data Platform MVPs Kendra Little, Steve Jones, Kathi Kellenberger and Grant Fritchey come together for this festive webinar special. Our band of experts discuss their highlights and favourite memories from throughout the year, sharing their own personal moments of glory, biggest learnings, and hilarious bloopers.

2. Today’s panel
Kathi Kellenberger
Advocate and
Simple Talk Editor
Microsoft MVP
Grant Fritchey
Advocate
Microsoft MVP
President of PASS
Scary DBA
Steve Jones
Advocate and
SQLServerCentral Editor
Microsoft MVP
Kendra Little
Advocate
Microsoft MVP, MCM
Corgi enthusiast

3. Agenda
• Grant’s year
• Kathi’s year
• Kendra’s year
• Steve’s year
• Predictions for 2020

4. Grant’s Year

5. A Busy Year For Travel

6. GitHub
• I've finally started using it
• Now it's your turn

7. Compliance

8. All the Things!

9. 2020

10. Kathi’s Year

11. A Year of Learning and Teaching

12. 125+ articles published
24 newsletters sent
10 new authors

13. SQL Provision
FoRG Demo Kit
DataPhiles Episode
Think & Drink Events
SQL Backup
UNI Course

14. My Favorite Memory: PASS Summit!

15. Kendra’s Year

16. Drinking from the fire hose

17. Favorite things I learned about
MIGRATIONS-FIRST
DEVELOPMENT
GIT & GITHOOKS AZURE DEVOPS
PIPELINES

18. Meeting new communities

19. Working with Redgate’s PMM team

20. Getting back to basics

21. Steve’s Year

22. A SQL in the City Year
UK (2), US (3), ANZ (4), Streamed (2)

23. 20 Years of Redgate

24. • More and more customers are deploying every week
• Migrations based development is becoming more important
• Our SitC panels showed culture is critical

25. Containers, K8s, and SQL Server

26. Predictions

27. 2020 – Topic Areas
DevOps Essentials
• Environment
provisioning
• Version Control
• Continuous Integration
• Deployment Automation
Culture change
Cloud technology
Job market changes
C-Level goals