Oak Table World 2018 (OTW) just completed at the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco.  The event website is “https://otw18.org“.

This year, it was my turn to organize this remarkable little un-conference on behalf of the Oak Table Network, which is often described as a drinking society with an Oracle problem.

What is an “un-conference”?  The dictionary definition is…

The next nine days, I’m traveling to three cities for four events. We’ll just call this the 9-3-4 gauntlet of speaker life. I booked this travel as four, one-way flights to get the itinerary
I needed to make the most of my schedule and will have breaks between each event to make sure I don’t kill myself my last two weeks at Delphix.

GLOC

The only thing that stays the same is change….

As the time flies by and the world turns, I often am jarred back to reality when I discover how the little things we do can have a larger impact on the world around us.

Flying back from Interop ITX and StarEast conferences last week, I was reminded of this.  While reading the latest copy of Wired , I came across a story on D-Tech High School.  This is the school that resides on the Oracle headquarters campus, in its own building(s). The story was interviewing different students to discuss how they were making an impact on the technical world and how STEM schools, like D-Tech were changing the future.  What struck me, was that the lead in picture and student interview was with a young woman I’d worked with two years earlier as part of the Oracle Education Foundation.

I spent this week speaking at two conferences that may not be familiar to my usual crowd:
• Techwell StarEast Testing Conference in Orlando, FL
• Interop ITX Data Conference in Las Vegas, NV

I’m getting ready to get on a plane between two events today and have been so busy, that there’s been a break in blogging.  That’s right folks, Kellyn has let a few things slide….

So where did 2017 go?!?!?  I really, really would like to know…  Needless to say, it’s time to do a year in review already and I actually have time to do it this year!

DBAKevlar Blog

I wrote over 100 blog posts this year between DBAKevlar, Delphix and partner sites, but I’ve enjoyed sharing with the different communities.  There’s significant changes going on in the IT world regarding the future of the Database Administrator.

Its been a couple years since I presented at UKOUG.  After taking last year off to prioritize some projects with Delphix, I’m back to speaking and the event committee was gracious enough to offer a goth girl a couple spots on the schedule this year.

The event is in Birmingham, and although I’ve never been there, I’m told by reports, it’s rather rainy and cold this time of year, so I better prepare, (nothing like people selling you on a location…:))

I have two sessions this year, the first one is on Super Sunday:

So… you’re using a Delphix virtualization engine to provision SQL Server virtual databases (VDBs), but you’re finding that your SQL account passwords are being reset to those used in production after every refresh?  Likewise, all of the settings in the application supported by the database?

Provisioning a new virtual databases is easy.  Go into the Delphix administrative console, find the dSource you want, find the snapshot for the point-in-time you want on that dSource, click the Provision button, specify the database server where the new database should reside, and hey presto!  In 10 minutes or less, a new virtual database is ready for use.