22-25 April 2026

Slack for the DBA

2019

TL; DR

Slack, Bots, ChatOps? Is any of this useful to a DBA? Yes, come and let me show you how!

Session Details

No, not that sort of slacking. The Slack.com type of slacking. We'll be ignoring the gifs and looking at how using Slack, PoshBot, dbatools and a little bit of PowerShell glue you can build a simple solution that enables you to quickly respond to and fix problems from anywhere without having to carry anything more specialised than your smart phone. And we'll see how you can then extend that to allow you to hand off tasks to other users and teams in a safe secure manner.

3 things you'll get out of this session