Tag Archives: Disaster Recovery

Free Video for Accidental DBA’s

Recently, Mike Walsh and John Sterrett teamed up with Embarcadero to give a 60 minute presentation focusing on the skills that are necessary for accidental DBA’s to master to become DBA’s with a successful long lasting career.

I wish I had all this advice when I started as a SQL Server DBA.

Resources:

All Resources mentioned in the video to complete the tasks discussed can be found at http://linchpinpeople.com/where

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Upcoming Presentations

It’s an honor to always be able to give back to the SQL Server Community. I would never be where I am today with out others helping me along the way.  I look forward connecting and sharing with everyone at the following events.

Unplanned Availability Group Failover

Whenever a disaster occurs it will be a stressful scenario regardless of how small or big the disaster is. This gets multiplied when it is your first time working with a newer technology or the first time you are going through a disaster without a proper run book. Today, were going to help you establish a run book for creating a planned failover with availability groups.

A Step By Step Guide for Unplanned SQL Server Availability Group Failover can be found here.

Learn High Availability and Disaster Recovery with SQL Server in a Day!

If you are near Pittsburgh, PA on May 22, 2014 catch the following all-day training session from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM (EDT) 

Do you need to build a High Availability (HA) and/or Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy for SQL Server Databases? If so, you will no doubt have questions like:

•    What does a good High Availability or Disaster Recovery strategy look like?
•    What options are available to help implement a proper HA/DR strategy?
•    What do I do if my database server goes down?
•    How do I mitigate downtime for planned outages?
•    How much time do I have to recover, and which native SQL Server features helps me reach my goal?
•    How does this work with my company’s existing HA/DR strategy?

Linchpin People & SIOS are offering this seminar to answer those questions and more!
In this all-day training, we will help teach you the fundamentals and best practices of building and implementing a full HA/DR Strategy for your company.  You will learn how to build a recovery plan by mastering the basics of backups and restores. You will also learn how to implement and monitor log shipping, database mirroring, replication, Windows clustering, SQL Server Failover Clustering Instances, and the new Availability Group features. After this training session, you will have the knowledge to design, implement and manage your very own high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) plan.

Meet The Presenters!

High Availability and Disaster Recovery Cheap TrainingJohn Sterrett is a Group Principal and Sr. Consultant at Linchpin People. Previously, he was a Sr. Database Admin Advisor for Dell, directly responsible for several mission-critical databases behind dell.com. John has presented at many community events, is a PASS Regional Mentor, and one of the founders of the WVPASS user group and the PASS HA/DR Virtual Chapter. Tim RadneyTim Radney is the Lead System DBA for a top 40 US held bank. He is also a chapter leader for the Columbus GA SQL Users Group, PASS Regional Mentor for Greater South East US. Tim is a Microsoft Systems Admin turned DBA. Prior to becoming a full time DBA, he spent 10 years supporting Citrix, Novell, Windows, IIS, and MSSQL.

 Event Details:

Thursday May 22nd, 2014 – 8:30am-4:30pm (EDT)
Cost:  $79.00 before April 30th, $99.00 after April 30th
Location:
Microsoft Office
30 Isabella St., Second Floor
Alcoa Business Services Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Phone: (412) 323-6700
Food:  Lunch, and drinks will be provided at the event location.  Please contact the organizer if you require a vegetarian option.