September '14 Baton Rouge SQL Server UG

Post date: Aug 12, 2014 9:46:25 PM

Main Topic: SQL Server Hostile Takeover

Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Location: The Louisiana Technology Park - http://www.brssug.org/where

Sponsored By: RedGate

Agenda:

5:45 - 6:15 pm: Networking and Dinner with the other user groups

6:15 - 6:30 pm: Announcements and Sponsor Message

6:30 - 7:00 pm: User Group business

7:00 - 8:00 pm: Main Topic Speaker

8:00 - 8:30 pm: Raffle and Giveaways

Special Announcement: The October 8 meeting will be our annual SPEAKER IDOL competition! Sign up today!

Main Topic: Hostile Takeover

Main Topic Speaker: Robert Bishop, Woman's Hospital Baton Rouge

Main Topic Summary: A SQL Server instance was just handed to you to manage.  OK, great, now what?  What are the logical steps and/or best practices in taking over the management of a SQL Server instance.

Main Topic Bio: Robert M Bishop is a true “Accidental DBA” and currently the Database Administrator for Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge. As a MS SQL 2008 MCITP in Business Intelligence, Robert has been working with .NET development, MS SQL Server, SSRS and SSIS since 2004. He currently blogs at http://sqlpadre.wordpress.org, but not as often as he would like, and can be found on twitter at @SQL_Padre.