User Groups

The need for User Groups

Michael Wall September 25, 2022 2 Comments

I remember Paul Turley saying a few years ago at a Speaker Dinner, "We're literally aging out". I am almost done with my European Tour, and it is obvious that a number of things are the same across the pond: The need for cloud migration. Like it or not the cloud is here to stay in all of its weird and wonderful permutations. Whether you choose Azure or AWS or other competitors, the migration...

User Groups – pt 2

Michael Wall June 11, 2020 0 Comments

Last night was another successful meeting of the Oregon Data Community, virtually of course! We were thrilled to have two of our leaders speak, Jessica Aguilar, and Paul Turley, both on that Power BI thing that seems to be pretty popular... Jessica is our newest member to the leadership group and she's very excited about it. She's had a busy month with starting work at Pragmatic Works with me...

Michael Wall June 10, 2020 0 Comments

When I decided that I wanted to get into the "speaker" gig, I went straight for the SQL Saturdays. I wasn't surprised when I was rejected the first time, but the second time I was a little disappointed. At that point, Arnie Rowland, suggested that I start by supporting the local user groups. I took his advice to heart and contacted the Eugene UG as you can see from the top post. It took three...