Tim Radney
timradney.com
Tim is a Data Platform MVP. He has presented at PASS, SQLintersection, Ignite, MSSQLCONF, SQL Saturdays, user groups and numerous webinars. Tim runs the Cloud Data Platform Virtual Group. He’s married with three children and has a passion for gardening.
Understanding SQL Server Backup and Restore
Everyone knows that it's critical to have backups but it's amazing how few people make sure those backups can be restored properly! Too many times to count, Tim has been brought in by organizations to help recover failed systems where administrators simply didn’t know how to properly restore SQL Server backups when they have to. In this session, Tim will explain the various types of backups that can be taken and demonstrate how to restore each of them. Apart from covering the common full, differential and log backups, Tim will also cover partial, filegroup, and COPY_ONLY backups, backing up to and restoring from a URL, backup encryption, and how to perform a hack attach for the ultimate tail log restore. There's something here for everyone to learn!
Common SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Making mistakes is natural, but learning from them and avoiding them in future takes effort. There's no substitute for experience or the shared wisdom of others to help you learn what mistakes to avoid. In this session, Tim will share with you a ton of what he's learned over the years from working and consulting at multiple Fortune-level companies. You'll hear about real-world environments he has worked on where there was a high impact from administrators making mistakes in how SQL Server was configured and administered. You'll learn many proven and accepted best practices for installing, configuring and supporting SQL Server to help your environment run as smoothly as possible and you'll leave with a checklist of items to take home to make sure your SQL Server environment is configured properly.
Azure Data Security
When moving your data assets to the Microsoft Azure platform, you have numerous tools available to you to help secure and protect your data. Many of these tools are also available with SQL Server 2016 and onwards. This session will discuss how you can leverage Transparent Data Encryption, Always Encrypted, Row Level Security, and Dynamic Data Masking which are built into the database engine. In addition to native SQL features, there are additional built-in tools that you can leverage for Azure SQL Database ad Managed Instance. These include Advanced Threat Protection, Vulnerability Assessment, and Data Classification and Discovery. This session will explore the various tools and offerings so that you will have the knowledge to secure your data assets.
Selecting the Right Size Azure VM
When considering a migration of your SQL Server workloads to the cloud. It is critical to consider the performance characteristics of your existing workloads and understand any current pain points that you may have. This is important regardless of if it’s a migration to Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, or Azure SQL Virtual Machines.
In this session, Tim Radney will cover various performance metrics to collect and show how to use those metrics to determine what size Azure Virtual Machine that you’ll need to support that workload. In addition to the size of the virtual machine, we’ll dive into storage and discuss the various disk configuration options that are available.
At the end of this session, you’ll have a much deeper understanding of Azure Virtual Machine sizing, Azure disk configurations, and ultimately how to monitor disk throughput.
Understanding Azure SQL
Get a deeper understanding of the differences between Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure SQL Virtual Machines for solving your SQL Server workload needs in the cloud. This session will cover key differences between each platform and help you determine which solution would work best for your SQL Server workload.
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