"How PowerShell has made me a better Data Professional" with Hamish Watson

Join us for the January 2020 Australia and New Zealand PowerShell & DevOps User Group online meeting, the first of the year!

This month we're pleased to have Hamish Watson (@TheHybridDBA) presenting "How PowerShell has made me a better Data Professional"

Meeting agenda (AEDT):
8:00-8:05 - Intro
8:05-9:00 - "How PowerShell has made me a better Data Professional" - Hamish Watson
9:00-9:15 - Community news & open floor

These timing are guidelines, and may move forward or backwards based on actual talk times.

Join us via Team Meeting, a link will be sent out here and on Twitter closer to the meeting.

Credit: Photo by Sander Weeteling (https://unsplash.com/@sanderweeteling) on Unsplash

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This session will show how forward thinking DBAs, Database Developers (aka Data Professionals) are using PowerShell to not manage their databases more efficiently but also future proofing their careers.

PowerShell is very powerful with both infrastructure and cloud services but is equally as powerful with SQL Server. In this session we will look at how PowerShell can be utilised as Infrastructure as Code (one of the tenets of incorporating DevOps into your deployment work streams) but also as a method of installing/configuring and managing SQL Server itself. We will also look at how PowerShell and azure can make things a lot easier for data professionals. Part of this - we will look at DSC and also the popular open source framework dbatools.

This session will appeal to both the hardcore PowerShell user as well as anyone who looks after cloud based databases as well as databases residing on-premises

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Hamish Watson is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and VMware Expert with a passion for efficient database and application deployment using DevOps methodologies.

He has 20+ years of IT experience in managing and deploying large scale databases on SQL Server technologies.

Hamish runs a DevOps consultancy business Morph iT which is based in Christchurch, New Zealand. His company helps clients around the world optimise their SQL Server instances as well as embrace using the Azure platform for both applications and databases. Bringing DevOps efficiencies to databases is both a passion for Hamish as well as a key driver for his company.

Educating and helping others learn is a driver for Hamish and he is a PASS Local Group Leader, international speaker, and a repeat guest lecturer at a local university.