{"id":44,"date":"2015-06-01T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/tim\/?p=44"},"modified":"2015-05-30T17:43:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T21:43:30","slug":"calling-all-user-group-leaders-i-want-to-present-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/tim\/calling-all-user-group-leaders-i-want-to-present-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling all user group leaders! I want to present for you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year SQlskills made an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/calling-user-group-leaders-want-present-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">offer <\/a>to remotely present for user groups anywhere in the world. The response was incredible. The SQLskills team has been presenting like crazy so far this year. Since I didn&#8217;t join SQLskills until January I was not part of the initial listing of potential sessions that the chapter leaders could pick from but that hasn&#8217;t stopped me from getting in on some of the fun. Over the past couple of months I have been able to remotely present for user groups in Alaska, Indiana, and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Getting first-hand experience with how rewarding it is to remotely present to areas that\u00a0I otherwise wouldn&#8217;t be able to share with has made me want to have\u00a0my own call for user group leaders.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like me to present remotely for you during the remainder of 2015,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:tim@sqlskills.com?subject=2015%20user%20group%20presentation\" target=\"_blank\">send me an email<\/a> with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Details of which user group you represent<\/li>\n<li>The usual day of the month, time, and timezone of the user group<\/li>\n<li>Which months you have available, starting in June\u00a02015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What\u2019s the catch? There is no catch. We\u2019re just stepping up our community involvement this\u00a0year and I am trying to contribute like\u00a0the rest of my team, plus I love presenting \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m serious about anywhere in the world \u2013 it doesn\u2019t matter what the timezone difference is \u2013 I&#8217;ll try to\u00a0make it work.<\/p>\n<p>Currently I have two sessions you can pick from.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 25.2000007629395px;\">Common SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Making mistakes is human nature; avoiding them comes from experience and shared wisdom from others. In this session, Tim Radney will share experiences he has encountered supporting multiple Fortune-level companies. Tim will share real-world experiences of environments he has worked on and the impact he has seen from administrators not knowing how to properly configure and administer SQL Server. In this session, you will learn many accepted best practices for installing, configuring, and supporting SQL Server to help your environment run as smooth as possible. When you leave this session, you will have a checklist of items to take back to your shop to make sure your environment is configured properly.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding SQL Backups and Restores<br \/>\nHaving backups is important for organizations, but \u2013 are you sure it will restore? Too often, Tim Radney has been brought in by organizations to help recover failed systems where administrators simply didn\u2019t know how to properly restore SQL backups. Or, where their backups didn\u2019t restore? In this session, Tim will go through the various types of backups that can be performed as well as demonstrate the proper process for restoring each of them. This isn\u2019t your basic session as Tim will not only be covering the common full, differential and log backups, he will also be covering partial, file group, COPY_ONLY, a URL backup and restore, encryption as well as performing a demo of a \u201chack attach\u201d for the ultimate tail of the log restore.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to hear from you,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year SQlskills made an offer to remotely present for user groups anywhere in the world. The response was incredible. The SQLskills team has been presenting like crazy so far this year. 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