
Episode 286: 286: SQL Smart with Nancy Sheleheda
09/11/19 • 30 min
Nancy Sheleheda, Senior Director of Application Development at PCT, joined Brittany to discuss why it is important to learn SQL, to engage in a debate on differences between a developer and a DBA and introduce some great resources to leveling up on SQL.
Links for this episode:
- SQL Server Row Level Security
- SQL Server Central Beginning T-SQL Stairway
- SQL PASS local and virtual groups
- Itzik Ben-Gan’s T-SQL Fundamentals Third Edition
- SQL Saturdays
- Brent Ozar's Site
- Brent Ozar | Fundamentals of Database Administration
- Brent Ozar | DBA Training Plan
- RBAR: ‘Row By Agonizing Row’
- Nancy Sheleheda on Twitter (@pbjnancy)
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
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Nancy Sheleheda, Senior Director of Application Development at PCT, joined Brittany to discuss why it is important to learn SQL, to engage in a debate on differences between a developer and a DBA and introduce some great resources to leveling up on SQL.
Links for this episode:
- SQL Server Row Level Security
- SQL Server Central Beginning T-SQL Stairway
- SQL PASS local and virtual groups
- Itzik Ben-Gan’s T-SQL Fundamentals Third Edition
- SQL Saturdays
- Brent Ozar's Site
- Brent Ozar | Fundamentals of Database Administration
- Brent Ozar | DBA Training Plan
- RBAR: ‘Row By Agonizing Row’
- Nancy Sheleheda on Twitter (@pbjnancy)
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
Datadog
Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure, applications and logs. Datadog integrates seamlessly with more than 350 technologies, so you can track every layer of your complex microservice architecture, all in one place.
See for yourself - start a 14-day free trial today and Datadog will send you a free T-shirt! Just visit datadoghq.com/rubyonrails.
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- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
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- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
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