The next NOVASQL meeting is Monday, January 25, 2010 at 7:00PM.
This meeting will be held at the AT&T Building, located at 1900 Gallows Road Vienna, VA 22182.
Our sponsor Fusion-io is giving away a solid state storage PCI-e card. Fusion-io is specialize in:
- Database acceleration using a new storage/memory architecture that provides drastic performance improvements for databases and enterprise applciations
- New memory/storage tier utilizing solid state drives connected via PCIe to increase transactions/sec (IOPS), reduce latency, and increase throughput.
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Topics For This Meeting
Main Session
Title: Essential Database Management – Top Ten Recommendations
Abstract: In this session, Paul and Kimberly will run you through their top-ten database maintenance recommendations, with a lot of tips and tricks along the way. These are distilled from almost 30 years combined experience working with SQL Server customers and are geared towards making your databases more performant, more available, and more easily managed (to save you time!). Everything in this session will be practical and applicable to a wide variety of databases. Topics covered and myths debunked include: backups, shrinks, fragmentation, statistics, and much more! Focus will be on 2005 but we'll explain some of the key differences for 2000 and 2008 as well.
Speaker: Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp
Bio: Paul and Kimberly are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server.
Paul worked on the SQL Server team for nine years in development and management roles, writing many of the DBCC commands, and ultimately with responsibility for core Storage Engine for SQL Server 2008. Paul writes extensively on his blog (SQLskills.com/blogs/Paul) and for TechNet Magazine, for which he is also a Contributing Editor.
Kimberly worked on the SQL Server team in the early 1990s as a tester and writer before leaving to found SQLskills and embrace her passion for teaching and consulting. Kimberly has been a staple at worldwide conferences since she first presented at TechEd in 1996, and she blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/Kimberly.
They have written Microsoft whitepapers and books for SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, and are regular, top-rated presenters worldwide on database maintenance, high availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and SQL Server internals. Together they teach the SQL MCM certification and throughout Microsoft.
In their spare time they like to find frogfish in remote corners of the world.
Short Session:
Title: SQL Server at the Speed of Light
Abstract: Fusion-io is a provider of solid state storage that can be deployed wherever there is a need to accelerate performance of I/O intensive applications and workloads, scale virtual machine deployments, drive faster financial transactions, and accelerate database and data mining performance.
The presentation has been carefully crafted to provide valuable information on the hot topic of accelerating database performance using PCIe-based solid state storage. The outline for the presentation is as follows:
1. Speaker Introduction
2. Database/Datacenter Challenges Overview
3. Introduction to Solid State and Common Architectures
4. Customer Use Case Scenarios (actual customer case studies)
5. QA
Speaker: Fred Vasofsky and Christian Shrauder
Meeting Agenda:
7:00PM - 8:15PM Main Session
8:15PM - 8:30PM Transition/Break
8:30PM - 8:55PM Short Takes Session
8:55PM - 9:00PM Wrap-up and raffle
Meeting Sponsors:
Quest Software Promotions and Events
Click here for information regarding our our sponsor Fusion-io.
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