May Monthly CASSUG Meeting

Greetings, data enthusiasts!

Our May meeting is scheduled for Monday, May 18th, at 5:30 pm! We will meet in person at: Troy Web Consulting, 135 Mohawk St, Cohoes, NY 12047.

Please RSVP if you are attending, so we can purchase an appropriate amount of food for everyone. Food is TBA and will be announced closer to the meeting date. For this meeting, we are welcoming Andy Levy, who is joining us from the home of the illustrious Garbage Plate, Rochester, NY! Thank you for taking the time and energy to join us and share your knowledge!

Our meeting schedule is as follows:

5:30 PM: Food, soft drinks, and networking
6:15 PM: Chapter news and announcements
6:30 PM: Presentation

We usually wrap up between 7:30 PM and 8:00 PM. Andy will be presenting on a topic that makes our lives far less stressful: "Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations".

Session Details:
It seems like every time I take a few days off, something at the office breaks. As a Lone DBA for over four years this terrified me. Even after I moved into a larger team of DBAs with a proper on-call rotation, I took the work laptop with me on vacation and compulsively checked my phone.

Writing support documentation finally put my mind at ease. It may not be the most glamorous thing to do, but it pays off. Writing, maintaining, and promoting support documentation for the systems I built and supported not only put my mind at ease, but helped me understand them better.

In this session, you’ll learn about what led me down this path, how I’ve evolved my thinking about where I write my documentation, and the tools that I use. You’ll also learn tricks to keeping things up to date and making this information readily accessible to other people when they need it most.