William Durkin
Data Masterminds
Lingen, Germany
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William Durkin is Co-Founder and Data Architect at Data Masterminds. He uses his 18+ years of experience with SQL Server to help multinational corporations achieve their data management goals. Born in the UK and now based in Germany, William has worked as a Database Developer and DBA on projects ranging from single server installations, up to environments spanning 5 continents using a range of high availability solutions. William is a regular speaker at conferences around the globe and is the organizer of the popular DataGrillen, New Stars of Data, Dativerse, and DataMinutes events.
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Failing to plan is planning to fail
IT systems are already highly important for most (if not all) companies.
Those systems need to be available (up to) 24/7/365. This requires a lot of planning to ensure those systems are taken care of properly.
As we all know from recent memory: outages of "unbreakable" systems happen more often than we'd like.
In this strategy session we'll talk about what these outages can mean to a business, how to assess availability requirements, how to avoid/mitigate potential outages, and also how to proceed when an outage occurs.
You will leave this session with a set of ideas to help you approach planning for system failures/outages at your job.
A little bit of preparation can save a lot of stress and expense in the future!
SQL Server Replication: What, How, Why?
Synching data between databases can be achieved with multiple features inside SQL Server.
Replication is the only one that works across versions (up and downstream versions) and editions (on-prem or in the cloud) with powerful filtering and configuration options which allow more flexibility than many third-party tools could dream of.
Whether you are a DBA looking to add another tool to add to your arsenal or a BI architect looking to feed data from your OLTP system to your analytics data store, this session will go over the what, how and why of replication.
You'll leave with a firm understanding of how the feature works and what options are available to allow you to synchronise data in your estate.
Silent Witness - A look at common mistakes seen in the field
We have all run into situations or systems where decisions were made that caused great pain further down the line.
"We will deal with performance once we launch"
"Best practices are just suggestions from people who don't know our industry"
"We don't have time for 'real security', sysadmin will do for now"
I see these scenarios over and over again and believe that sharing the pain will allow people to identify and (hopefully) stop such arguments from taking hold.
This session will go over a few of the recent "interesting" scenarios we've encountered and how we approached stopping them being implemented, or how we fixed the problem after the fact.
You will leave with a set of war stories that seem familiar, but also with some ammunition and strategies to avoid those common pitfalls in the future.
William Durkin
Data Masterminds
Lingen, Germany
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