Hello all! 

We will be having our normal meeting at the Microsoft technology center

http://www.cactuss.org/Supporters/tabid/59/Default.aspx

Microsoft http://www.cactuss.org/MeetingInformation/tabid/63/Default.aspx
Stonebridge Plaza, Building One
9606 N. Mopac Expressway, Suite 200
Austin, TX 78759

5:30PM to 6:00PM – Q&A and DBA 101 presentation
6:10PM to 7:00PM – Feature presentation
7:00PM 7:30PM – Q&A follow up and discuss next meeting.

Understanding Storage Systems and SQL Server

The most important part of your SQL Server is also the slowest, Storage. This talk will take you through the fundamentals of your server's Disk I/O System. From how hard drives work, through RAID configurations, and how to configure the file system. This session should give you a solid foundation over storage systems and help you understand why they are slow and how to overcome some of their limitations.

 

From Brent Ozar's Blog here are a few free online training events that should be worth your time.

January 28 Pain of the Week Webcast:
“But It Worked On My Machine!”

Ari Weil and Brent Ozar will show you how to catch bad code and how to prove to your developers why it won’t scale up to production loads. Find out how to recognize common mistakes before they go into production, such as:

• Scalar UDFs that process too much data
• Oversized fields
• Over-reliance on TempDB

Register now for this completely free one-hour LiveMeeting.

March 3rd: All-Day Free Virtual Event

Performance Tuning & Troubleshooting with DMVs

We’re doing an all-day live virtual conference on how to use dynamic management views (DMVs) to do SQL Server performance tuning and troubleshooting. The whole thing will be broadcast live in 720p, and we’ll be taking questions via chat and Twitter. We’re going to have sessions at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels taught by:

• Kevin Kline (Blog – Twitter) – Microsoft MVP since 2004, author of SQL in a Nutshell, founding board member of the Professional Association for SQL Server, and all around good guy.
• Ari Weil (Blog – Twitter) – Product Manager for Quest’s performance products, and knows way more about waits, performance tuning, and SQL Server architecture than anybody should.
• Brent Ozar (Blog – Twitter) – your humble author. Okay, well, author anyway.

Register now and just for registering, you’ll be entered into a contest for free goodies!

 

http://www.vconferenceonline.com/shows/spring10/quest/register/multireg.asp?newmem=1 Free training from Quest Software using the DMV's. The price is right and the presenters are awesome!

 

Mike Bird will be speaking about developer tips gleaned from the PASS Community Summit.

If you had a problem with your account here I have authorized all users and flagged your password to be reset. If you have any issues email me at admin (AT) wesworld (DOT) net.

 

Conor's slide deck from last night on the files tab click the DOWNLOAD link.

 

 

Hello all! 

We will be having our normal meeting at the Microsoft technology center.

http://www.cactuss.org/Supporters/tabid/59/Default.aspx

Microsoft
Stonebridge Plaza, Building One
9606 N. Mopac Expressway, Suite 200
Austin, TX 78759
http://www.cactuss.org/MeetingInformation/tabid/63/Default.aspx

5:30PM to 6:00PM – Q&A and DBA 101 presentation
6:10PM to 7:00PM – Feature presentation
7:00PM 7:30PM – Q&A follow up and discuss next meeting.

The feature presentation will be given by Connor Cunningham! He will be talking about indexes and the optimizer. 

We will have the usual give-a-ways plus some software.

See you there!

 

 

 

Well you should be! SQL Man of Mystery
I'm currently doing a series based of my disk subsystem talk. Expanded and corrected and online so you can reference it at your leisure. 

Ever want to implement drag-and-drop reporting in your application and stop the rampant report queue. In this session you'll have a gentle introduction to SQL Server Analysis Services. You'll see how to use it to give your users their own ad-hoc reporting and have better than expected performance results. 

• The Benefits of SSAS 
• What are Demensions and Hierarchies 
• User interfaces for developers
• Cube Design and Measures
• Including UBO and MDX in SSAS

About  Speaker:
Brian Knight, SQL Server MVP, MCSE, MCDBA, is the co-founder of SQLServerCentral.com and JumpstartTV.com. He runs the local SQL Server users group in Jacksonville (JSSUG) and was on the Board of Directors of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS). Brian is a contributing columnist for SQL Server Standard and also maintains a regular column for the database website SQLServerCentral.com and does regular webcasts at Jumpstart TV. He has co-authored and authored more than 9 SQL Server books including Admin911: SQL Server (Osborne/McGraw-Hill Publishing), Professional SQL Server DTS, Expert SSIS, Professional SQL Server 2005 Administration and Professional SQL Server 2005 SSIS (Wrox Press). Brian has spoken at conferences like PASS, SQL Connections and TechEd and many Code Camps. 

 

Idera provides solutions for SQL Server, SharePoint, PowerShell and Microsoft Dynamics Servers. Delivering a new generation of tools for managing, administering, and securing Microsoft Windows Servers. I have worked with Idera tools before they were Idera! They have grown alot since the days of just Diagnostic Manager and SQL Safe and now incompass more than just SQL Server.

 

Red Gate Software builders of ingeniously simple tools, has signed on as a Platinum Sponsor for the year! Red Gate is a name you know as a DBA and as a developer. They produce tools for SQL Server, .net and now Exchange.

 

I know you what you may be thinking... It's not until November! Well with todays economy I think you should start getting the funds together now. They have even helped with explaining why this summit is so key to your Microsoft SQL Server skills! Don't forget when you sign up let them know that CACTUSS is your chapter!