---
title: "Slides and Demos for My Talk: Testing Data Access Code Pragmatically"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/9/24/slides-and-demos-for-my-talk-testing-data-access-code-pragma.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/9/24/slides-and-demos-for-my-talk-testing-data-access-code-pragma.html"
published: "2007-09-24T11:01:41"
updated: "2007-09-24T11:01:41"
tags: ["Agile", "Agile Related", "Unit Testing"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "You can download the slides and demos for my talk at Jaoo here: Talk: Testing Data Access Code Pragmatically Slides Code My guitar didn't make it through the flights over here, so someone was kind enough to lend me…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Slides and Demos for My Talk: Testing Data Access Code Pragmatically

By Roy Osherove September 24, 2007 In [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile), [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Unit Testing](https://osherove.com/blog/category/unit-testing)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 24, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

You can download the slides and demos for my talk at [Jaoo](http://jaoo.dk/conference/) here:

**Talk: Testing Data Access Code Pragmatically**

- [Slides](http://files.osherove.com/downloads/jaoo_data_ppt.zip)
- [Code](http://files.osherove.com/downloads/jaoo.Data.Demos.zip)

My guitar didn't make it through the flights over here, so someone was kind enough to lend me their personal guitar. Thanks! Someone. The song I sang: [It's Time for Violence](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2007/05/19/it-s-time-for-violence-a-song-about-databases.aspx)

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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