Grant Fritchey (9/30/2016)
However, I do all my demos against AdventureWorks (and moving towards WideWorldImporters, or, as I call it, World War I, WWI) and my scripts and presentations are all backed up online. I could pick up any machine or vm that has SQL Server installed and use that to do my presentation.
I'm busy designing my own DB for demos, blog posts, courses and the like, When (if) I get it finished the backup of the base DB and scripts to populate it to various sizes will be on Github. I'm starting to get my demos up there. Presentations are all in DropBox. (which might be a problem if I lose all machines as the password is complex, but I can always present off my iPad if it's just the laptop that blows up)
So laptop blows up and as long as I can get internet connection and a spare laptop, I can be ready to go in ~10 min.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability