Hello Dear Reader! Change is the one constant in life and over here at Tales from the Field we've been
hard at work making some changes.
Over the last 5 months since we kicked off the show we've been experimenting with different content. We started off with the hosting & interview show on Tuesday and the Community Round Table on Thursday.
We added a few sporadic technical videos, and then in February kicked off our MS Tech Bits every Wednesday.
We are data folk at heart, so after looking at the analytics, we were blown away! In just one month of technical videos we had almost doubled our subscribers, and our viewership.
While we produced 2 Live Shows per week, we received just as many views and almost doubled our subscribers with one technical video a week.
Out of the Live Shows the most popular thing we do is the Community Round Table, and it is our favorite thing! We get to talk about you and what you are doing. We get to shine a light on new voices, wonderful established voices, or voices that you may not be aware. Each of my cohosts brings an amazing and unique point of view to this endeavor. I love learning new things or getting new videos to check out thanks to Neeraj Jhaveri (Twitter | @Neeraj_Jhaveri), Andrés Padilla (Twitter | @nodestreamio), Daniel Taylor (Twitter | @DBABulldog), & Josh Luedeman (Twitter | @JoshLuedeman).
I guess that is another change as well. We appreciate the efforts of Daniel Taylor so much that he is now officially part of the team! Dan is our go-to when we've had someone out of the office and he has an amazing technical mind. We are lucky to have him as part of our crew.
We want to devote more time to producing technical videos. So this week we are moving our Community Round Table shows to Tuesday and we are pausing the interviews.
We will continue our focus on technical content and making sure that we are rolling out a few technical videos a week.
All based on the work we are doing with customers aka friends over "in the field", answering questions, or covering topics we've had to help our friends with. A big important part of our job is also our internal work in Azure Engineering, also technically our field. Hence our name, Tales from the Field.
This week and next week we will be adding a treat of Monday videos and some shorts relating to interviewing for SQL DBA jobs.
In some fun news we've had the logo refreshed, some laptop stickers made prior to SQLBits & SQL Saturday Jacksonville #1041! If you are attending those events and want a sticker please find me and I'm taking about 200 so find me I will be happy to share them!
After SQLBits we will be working on a new channel trailer, getting the logo incorporated into our header, and adding it to our video trailers. We really love it and the graphic designer did a bang-up job!
Ok, enough from me. On to the Recap!
TUESDAY 2-28-2023
We had the AMAZING Vicky Harp (Twitter | @VickyHarp) on the Tuesday show for an interview. The subject was Building a Brand. Vicky is a Principal Group Program Manager for the Windows Developer Experience Team, Vicky has also had a hand in building some of the product, that if you use SQL Sever, you know & love.
This was a fantastic episode were we discussed the concepts of external or community branding as well as internal or building your brand inside of the company you work for. Both of these brands are ESENTIAL to success.
We covered advice and guidance that Vicky had for people new in their careers and also for those that had been around for a while. Make sure you check it out!
WEDNESDAY 3-31-2023
On Wednesday we launched our latest MS Tech Bits Make Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose FASTER!!I On a personal note, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE RESPONSE! As of right now this is the MOST watched video on our channel and it has not yet been out a week.
If you liked this video, we have some really great content planned at the channel. We hope you will check it out if you haven't already.
THURSDAY 3-2-2023
On Thursday we had our Community Round Table featuring data from you the Azure Data Community or the community at large.
This is always a fun show where I get to hang out with my friends and share the things we've all found interesting over the past week. The star of that show is the content, so without further ado.
Content in order of appearance:
Neeraj
•The Importance of Personal Branding to Career Growth Plus 12 Tips for Branding Success by Jessica H Hernandez Twitter @GreatResume
Bradley
•DataChick's Secure Your Azure SQL Data Challenge By Karen Lopez Twitter @DataChick
Andres
•How To Fix Stream Lag: 5 Reasons You are Lagging by Live Streaming Tech Twitter @tech_streaming
Josh
•Announcing Azure Data Tech Groups v2.0 by Rie Merrit Twitter @IrishSQL & @AzureSQL
Neeraj
•Using OpenAI GPT in Synapse Analytics by Thomas Costers
Bradley
•Programming Databases with T-SQL for Beginners by Buck Woody & Marisa Mathews Twitter @BuckWoodyMSFT, @AzureSQL
Andres
•Calling REST endpoints from T-SQL by Rob Farley Twitter @rob_farley, @IrishSQL, @AzureSQL
Josh
•Understanding Change Data Capture for Azure SQL Database Part 1 by Greg Low Twitter @greglow
Neeraj
•Personal Branding for Students: 7 Tips You Should Know by Nate Torres
Bradley
•Extracting Data from the AFAS REST API with Azure Data Factory By Koen Verbeeck Twitter @Ko_Ver
Andres
•How I Built A Streaming Analytics App With SQL and Delta Live Tables by Richard Tomlinson Twitter @tomlinsonr
Josh
•SQL Server 2022: Measuring Extended Events Performance Impacts by Jonathan Kehayias Twitter @SQLPoolBoy
WRAP IT UP
This week is a big week Dear Reader. We have technical content dropping this Monday and next Monday. This Monday we have an Introduction to OpenAI by Andrés & Neeraj! We have our Tuesday Round Table show featuring maybe your content!?!
We have our Wednesday MS Tech Bits, this will be yours truly with an Introduction to SQL Wait Stats and we are dropping our SQL Interview shorts all this week.
Most important, Thank You Dear Reader for stopping by.
Thanks,
Brad