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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738643 More actions · Answer 1

Roy Ernest (8/17/2010)
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Roy Ernest (8/17/2010)
Jeff, Thank You. Our user group would love that. maybe for September we could try that out? 🙂 Thanks once again. 🙂
Roy,
I'll try to do one for you sometime remotely. I'd like to come out, just not sure I can swing it. I may be in the Bahamas next year, might check if there's an easy way to get to you from there at a reasonable price as well.
We would love to have you here. And remote will also work fine. I am still working on some sponsorship. Then at least we could meet some of the expenses.

I agree, but not my trip. Wife getting rewarded for sales work, I come along to sit on sand and have a cocktail or two.

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Roy Ernest (8/17/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (8/17/2010)
I think a trip to the Bahamas would be nice. I wonder if I could work it into the budget...
A trip to curacao is much better. Nice white sandy beaches, friendly people, good diving spots and a very good night life. Food is very good as well. 🙂 We have some pretty good beer. Does that tempt you?

Roy my wife is from Venezuela and I've been to Curacao many times. Curacao and Aruba are right off the coast of Venezuela. Spectacular beaches. If I was a better speaker I'd sign up to come and speak to your group. I'll be out that way sometime in 2011.

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 3

I have not contacted Confio. The contact info was the main issue. I did contact Quest, but no response from them. Redgate wanted us to give a demo of the source control. I am going to try to get a sponsor here locally. I have people from the biggest bank here coming for the meeting. They do quite a bit of sponsorship. Maybe I can get them to sponsor us.

-Roy

Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 4

Roy Ernest (8/17/2010)
I am disappointed. I was trying to get Redgate to sponsor a speaker for our user group. They came up with an idea that Brad could do a Net meeting. Now they have turned us down completely saying brad does not have time for us.
Maybe our crowd is too small for a big company like that. But it is very disappointing.

I had worked with Brad and 3 other Central Florida user groups to schedule a tour for him this month and after we had it all worked out RedGate pulled the plug. That sent 4 user groups scrambling to find replacement speakers, can't say I was happy, but such is life as a chapter leader.

I'm also willing to do the remote thing for you. I don't think it's the best way to do a meeting, but better than nothing or having to present yourself all the time. If you do have remote speakers have a local mic so you can ask questions live. You can't really use the polling feature of LM when you are presenting remotely to an audience. I still need to figure out how to make remote presentations better from both ends.

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Alvin Ramard (8/17/2010)
I would appreciate if any of you who are going to use remote speakers, or are going to broadcast your user group meetings, could post the URL in here. We're considering trying either/both for our PASS Chapter and I'd like to see what the experience is like for the remote viewer.
I got the chance to catch most of Grant's presentation to Jason's group the other night. From a technology point of view, I was happy with how it worked. Great presentation too. I learned quite a bit about reading execution plans.

Thanks Alvin! Means a lot.

I don't mind doing virtual presentations either. But, as a presenter, they're hard. No feedback from the audience that what you're saying is interesting, or stupid, or that the users want more details on something... it's tough. Best way to do it is to have someone assigned to guage audience interaction and catch any questions that need to get asked.

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 6

Trey Staker (8/17/2010)
Roy Ernest (8/17/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (8/17/2010)
I think a trip to the Bahamas would be nice. I wonder if I could work it into the budget...
A trip to curacao is much better. Nice white sandy beaches, friendly people, good diving spots and a very good night life. Food is very good as well. 🙂 We have some pretty good beer. Does that tempt you?
Roy my wife is from Venezuela and I've been to Curacao many times. Curacao and Aruba are right off the coast of Venezuela. Spectacular beaches. If I was a better speaker I'd sign up to come and speak to your group. I'll be out that way sometime in 2011.

If I can give presentation and it is accepted quite well by the people attending, I am sure you will be better than me. Next time you come around this area, please let me know. Even if it is not for presenting, we could meet up.

-Roy

Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 7

I was planning to set it up in our usual meeting room and use the projector, have a mic and make it more interactive.

-Roy

Ray K SSC-Dedicated Points: 31172 More actions · Answer 8

Hi guys -- I could use some help on my question over here, if anyone has any thoughts!

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Greg Edwards-268690 SSC-Insane Points: 20680 More actions · Answer 9

Alvin -

Only an 'Ask the Experts' for the most part this month.

But it is remotely available.

Short notice too. ;>)

Greg E

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173108 More actions · Answer 10

Jack Corbett (8/17/2010)
Roy Ernest (8/17/2010)
I am disappointed. I was trying to get Redgate to sponsor a speaker for our user group. They came up with an idea that Brad could do a Net meeting. Now they have turned us down completely saying brad does not have time for us.
Maybe our crowd is too small for a big company like that. But it is very disappointing.
I had worked with Brad and 3 other Central Florida user groups to schedule a tour for him this month and after we had it all worked out RedGate pulled the plug. That sent 4 user groups scrambling to find replacement speakers, can't say I was happy, but such is life as a chapter leader.

Hence the reason I'm doing my brand new "Database Recovery" session tomorrow night for JSSUG.

Which is funny because I was originally told I couldn't do it in August because of Brad. Then, last week, Scott sends me an email saying "So, you're speaking this month, right?". @=)

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Greg Edwards-268690 (8/17/2010)
Alvin -
Only an 'Ask the Experts' for the most part this month.
But it is remotely available.
Short notice too. ;>)
Greg E

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 12

jcrawf02 (8/17/2010)
speaking of which, anybody used yuuguu before? supposedly the presenter installs, and the audience doesn't have to do anything to view the presentation, not sure 'zackly how that works, trying it out tonight.

Sounds promising and just right. Do you have a URL for that, Jon?

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 13

Alvin Ramard (8/17/2010)
I would appreciate if any of you who are going to use remote speakers, or are going to broadcast your user group meetings, could post the URL in here. We're considering trying either/both for our PASS Chapter and I'd like to see what the experience is like for the remote viewer.
I got the chance to catch most of Grant's presentation to Jason's group the other night. From a technology point of view, I was happy with how it worked. Great presentation too. I learned quite a bit about reading execution plans.

If I'm the speaker, the on one condition... I get the feedback.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 14

Roy Ernest (8/17/2010)
Jeff, Thank You. Our user group would love that. maybe for September we could try that out? 🙂 Thanks once again. 🙂

More info, please... Date? Time? Please put times into Eastern US time and, yes, we observe daylight savings time.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 15

Alvin Ramard (8/17/2010)
I would appreciate if any of you who are going to use remote speakers, or are going to broadcast your user group meetings, could post the URL in here. We're considering trying either/both for our PASS Chapter and I'd like to see what the experience is like for the remote viewer.
I got the chance to catch most of Grant's presentation to Jason's group the other night. From a technology point of view, I was happy with how it worked. Great presentation too. I learned quite a bit about reading execution plans.

Grant,

What technology did you use? Other than "GOTO MEETING", I've never done a remote presentation before.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)