{"id":82049,"date":"2009-04-17T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webstaging.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/?p=73235"},"modified":"2018-12-17T10:19:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T10:19:52","slug":"allen-white-to-speak-at-our-nashville-sql-server-users-group-april-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/allen-white-to-speak-at-our-nashville-sql-server-users-group-april-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen White to speak at our Nashville SQL Server User\u2019s group April 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am scheduled to be the opening act, with a short 5-10 minute tip\/trick session entitled \u201cTips \u2013 Taking Care of \u2018Future You\u2019\u201d, and then the illustrious Allen White will take over and give a presentation on the new administration features of SQL Server 2008.\u00a0 Frankly I am glad that he is going after me, because I know he is going to be quite a bit better than me \ud83d\ude42 (This being based on what I have heard and the fact the he is a professional trainer and I am just a rank amateur!)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know Allen, his bio is:<\/p>\n<p><em>Allen is a SQL Server Trainer for Scalability Experts, a leading provider of scalable solutions, training and services based on Microsoft SQL Server. He&#8217;s spent over 30 years in IT, including operations, development, telecommunications, network admin and database design and administration. He&#8217;s been using SQL Server since 1992 and is certified MCITP:Database Administrator, MCITP: Database Developer and MCT.\u00a0 Allen has been awarded Microsoft\u2019s MVP Award for his work in the SQL Server community for the last two years. He&#8217;s active in the Ohio North SQL Server User&#8217;s Group and contributes in the MSDN Forums, answering questions about SMO and PowerShell, and maintains a blog at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/sqlblog.com\/blogs\/allen_white\/default.aspx\"><em>http:\/\/sqlblog.com\/blogs\/allen_white\/default.aspx<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He is a great guy, and I am looking forward to getting an opportunity to hear him speak.\u00a0 He is coming to see us because he happened to be in town for the weekend to run the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmmarathon.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Country Music Marathon<\/a>. I was going to run it, but then I realized I was going to be in Atlanta for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlsaturday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SQL Saturday<\/a>. (Okay, to be honest if you know me you would be fairly certain that I won\u2019t even be walking 26 miles anytime soon.)<\/p>\n<p>If you want to come out and see Allen too, we will be at Nova Copy, 15 Lindsley Ave. Nashville 37210. RSVP to Shelton Dickson (<a href=\"http:\/\/mailto:shelton@dicksonresources.com\">shelton@dicksonresources.com<\/a>) as soon as you can if you are coming so we will know how much pizza to order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am scheduled to be the opening act, with a short 5-10 minute tip\/trick session entitled \u201cTips \u2013 Taking Care of \u2018Future You\u2019\u201d, and then the illustrious Allen White will take over and give a presentation on the new administration features of SQL Server 2008.\u00a0 Frankly I am glad that he is going after me,&#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[19684],"class_list":["post-82049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82462,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82049\/revisions\/82462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82049"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=82049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}