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RSVP for the next meeting
Please RSVP by email before noon on the day of the meeting. Your response helps us determine refreshments required, and lets us save money by booking the conference room that best matches our head count. To RSVP or for more information or location details please email Mark Ginnebaugh. |
About the San Francisco SQL Server User Group
The San Francisco SQL Server User Group maintains a focus on database development and administration practices specifically centered around Microsoft SQL Server. Presentations include developer centric interactive sessions as well as demonstrations of related products that have been judged to have potential value or be of interest to the professional database community. The intent is also to provide a face to face forum for peer learning and networking within the context of SQL Server. Members include DBAs, application developers long experienced using SQL Server, FoxPro or Access as a backend data source for custom business systems, as well as developers migrating to the Microsoft .NET platform.
General Agenda:
06:30 to 07:00 - Introductions, food and refreshments, discussion, networking
07:00 to 08:30 - Presentation and Q&A (w/ break)
08:30 to 9:00 - Informal discussion and networking |
Directions To The Meetings
Meetings are held at the NEW Microsoft Office at 835 Market Street, Suite 700, San Francisco, CA 94103. Click here for a map and more information. |
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Mark Ginnebaugh - User Group Leader
Mark is President of DesignMind, a Bay Area developer of Websites and Database Applications. Send User Group-related questions and suggestions to mark@designmind.com.
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Meeting Information |
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May Meeting - Wednesday, May 14th, 6:30 p.m. - Monday, May 12, 2008
Remember Our New Location: 835 Market Street, Suite 700. At our May meeting, Rene Woody, of Quest Software, will be talking about “Finding the Best Performing SQL”
The first part of this presentation will provide an explanation of SQL optimization techniques that can increase the performance of your database by improving the speed of your SQL statements. Rene will then demonstrate how the Artificial Intelligence engine built into Quest SQL Optimizer can take a SQL statement and transform the SQL syntax it to provide all the alternative SQL statements that product the same results to enable you to find the best one for your database environment.
Speaker: Rene Woody, through many years of experience in the computer field, has gained a varied background in applications and systems programming, classroom training, documentation, customer support, and pre-sales technical support. She is currently a member of the SQL optimization development team at Quest Software, Inc., writing the documentation for Quest SQL optimization products.
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April Meeting - Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Remember Our New Location: 835 Market Street, Suite 700. At our April meeting, Denise McInerney of Intuit, will talk about Transaction Management. Lost or corrupted data can have a direct impact on customers and the success of the business, therefore protecting data integrity is one of the primary responsibilities of a DBA. Denise will discuss how to successfully protect your organization’s data by understanding and practicing effective transaction management. She’ll discuss: How transactions work in SQL Server Options for transaction management SQL Server isolation levels Tips for effective DBA/Developer partnerships
Speaker: Denise McInerney is a Sr. Database Developer/DBA at Intuit and has over ten years experience as a SQL Server DBA. Denise’s focus is design and performance tuning OLTP databases that support web-based applications. She’s an MCDBA and an MCTS in SQL Server 2005 and is the Chairperson for PASS Women in Technology.
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Additional Upcoming Meetings
May: Rene Woody, of Quest Software, will speak on Finding the Best Performing SQL. 5/14/08 June: Ross Mistry will be speaking. Topic to be announced. 6/11/08 July: Hemant Gaidhani, of VMWare, will be speaking on "Virtualizing SQL Server." 7/9/08 August: Kevin Tsai, of Microsoft, will talk about "SQL Server Clustering vs. Oracle RAC." 8/13/08 September: Alex Viera, of Microsoft, will speak in the "SQL Server 2008 Resource Governor, Declarative Management Framework." 9/10/08 October: Joel Belson, of Microsoft Consulting, will discuss "SQL Server Performance: Disk I/O." 10/8/08
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