Tuesday, September 18, 2012
September Meeting
Good Afternoon Everyone,
Our upcoming meeting tomorrow the 19th of September. Red Gate is sponsoring our meeting. There are lots of prizes and everyone will get something for attending. We have lots of SQL books, t-shirts, thumb drives, and lots of swag to raffle off.
Arnie Rowland will be presenting on usage of Red Gate tools as per the group’s request. This will be an exciting event with great food and prizes.
Ben Pickett Twitter: @benptweet # SOSSUG http://sossug.com
Our featured Sponsor is:
Red Gate
Meeting Location:
PH Tech
3993 Fairview Industrial Dr. SE
Salem, Oregon 97302
Agenda:
Introductions
Dinner
Chapter News
Arnie Rowland Red-Gate Tools
Award Door Prizes or Giveaways
Networking Time
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Ben Pickett
Twitter: @benptweet #SOSSUG
http://sossug.com
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
August Meeting is Canceled
Good Morning Everyone,
Our upcoming meeting Wednesday 15th of August is Canceled. Next month we have Arnie Rowland presenting on usage of Red Gate tools. This will be an exciting event with great food and prizes.
Ben Pickett
Twitter: @benptweet #SOSSUG
http://sossug.com
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
July Meeting
Salem Oregon SQL Server User Group (SOSSUG)
Reminder… Tomorrow!!!
July 18th 2012 at 5:30 PM.
Speaker: Jeremiah Peschka presents A Developer's Guide to Fixing Dangerous Queries.
SQL Server does a good job of working with whatever garbage we throw at it, but sometimes a helping hand is needed to smooth things out. You may have meant well when you wrote that sloppy SQL, but that predicate lurking under the surface is poisoning your performance. This session will expose your worst habits, anti-patterns, and bad practices. By the time we're done, your T-SQL will be on the path to making things right again. This talk will be therapeutic for anyone from a junior DBA to a senior developer.
Tuning these awful queries doesn't have to be a black art - SQL Server provides you with all the information you need to understand what a query is doing. In this session we'll walk through execution plan basics and other built-in tools to make tuning queries easier.
Biography: Jeremiah Peschka @peschkaj helps developers, DBAs, and engineers build faster, robust, and scalable solutions; Microsoft SQL Server is frequently a part of that solution, but other databases are also. He has worked as a database and emerging technology expert at Quest Software researching new trends and technologies around data storage. Before that Jeremiah worked across many industries as a system administrator, developer, and DBA, and has been involved in all aspects of application development and deployment.
Meeting Location:
PH Tech
3993 Fairview Industrial Dr. SE
Salem, Oregon 97302
Agenda:
Introductions
Dinner: TBD
Chapter News
Speaker: Jeremiah Peschka
Award Door Prizes or Giveaways
Networking Time
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
June Meeting
Good Afternoon Everyone,
Our featured Speaker for our June, 20th meeting is Kendra Little.
Demystifying Benchmarking: How to Measure SQL Server Performance
Ever wanted to measure how much work a given SQL Server instance can do? Benchmarks allow you to measure and compare base performance between instances. In this session, Kendra Little will introduce you to a free benchmarking tool and demonstrate how to run a TPC-C benchmark against SQL Server. Kendra will provide a quick-start guide to get you going fast, and show you how to use benchmarking data to justify big changes in your environment.
Bio:
Kendra Little is all about data, communication, and creativity. Kendra nerds out on SQL Server full time as a founder of Brent Ozar PLF, LLC, a boutique consulting company. She is a Microsoft Certified Master in SQL Server 2008 and a Microsoft MVP. When she's not blogging, speaking, or performance tuning with clients, Kendra draws cartoon posters about SQL Server-- check them out at http://BrentOzar.com/go/posters.
Meeting Location:
PH Tech
3993 Fairview Industrial Dr. SE
Salem, Oregon 97302
Agenda:
Introductions
Dinner We will be having deli sandwiches
Chapter News
Speaker: Kendra Little
Award Door Prizes or Giveaways
Networking Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ben Pickett
Twitter: @benptweet #SOSSUG
http://sossug.com
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
May Meeting Update
Good Afternoon Everyone,
Our featured sponsor this month is Idera. I have a bunch of Swag from Idera to raffle off.
We are going to feature Lightning talks for our May SOSSUG meeting on Wednesday the 16. These are short talks that should last less than 5 minutes. We would like as many people involved as possible. Pick a SQL topic or issue of your choice and bring it.
We have four people lined up to do Lightning Talks but all are welcome.
Next Month we will have Kindra Little speaking. She is a Certified Master in SQL Server
http://BrentOzar.com.
Meeting Location:
PH Tech
3993 Fairview Industrial Dr. SE
Salem, Oregon 97302
Agenda:
Introductions
Dinner TBD It will be nice.
Chapter News
Group Chosen Presentation
Award Door Prizes or Giveaways
Networking Time
Ben Pickett
Twitter: @benptweet #SOSSUG
http://sossug.com
Monday, April 16, 2012
April Meeting
Good Morning Everyone,
This coming Wednesday, 18th of April at 5:30 PM, is our next SOSSUG meeting. We have received a sponsorship from Idera so we will be having a nice dinner. Tentative menu is assorted Deli Sandwiches from Sandwich Express.
Speaker: Jeremiah Peschka’s
Topic: Rules Rules Rules
Computers are governed by the rules of physics: electrons, drive
heads, and disk platters can only move so fast. Understanding how
these rules operate and interact leads to insights into application performance.
Understanding why something might perform a certain way makes it much
easier to understand the tradeoffs of a specific design.
Database systems are built according to those rules: memory is faster
than disk which is faster than the network. Database schemas and
queries are built within the rules of database systems. You will hit
the limitations of these rules. If you know what the rules are and why
they are in place, you'll know when it's time to break them... and how
to succeed.
Biography: Jeremiah Peschka @peschkaj helps developers, DBAs, and engineers build faster, robust, and scalable solutions; Microsoft SQL Server is frequently a part of that solution, but other databases are also. He has worked as a database and emerging technology expert at Quest Software researching new trends and technologies around data storage. Before that Jeremiah worked across many industries as a system administrator, developer, and DBA, and has been involved in all aspects of application development and deployment.
Meeting Location:
PH Tech
3993 Fairview Industrial Dr. SE
Salem, Oregon 97302
Agenda:
Introductions
Dinner We will be having deli sandwiches
Chapter News
Speaker: Jeremiah Peschka’s
Award Door Prizes or Giveaways
Networking Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ben Pickett
Twitter: @benptweet #SOSSUG
http://sossug.com
This coming Wednesday, 18th of April at 5:30 PM, is our next SOSSUG meeting. We have received a sponsorship from Idera so we will be having a nice dinner. Tentative menu is assorted Deli Sandwiches from Sandwich Express.
Speaker: Jeremiah Peschka’s
Topic: Rules Rules Rules
Computers are governed by the rules of physics: electrons, drive
heads, and disk platters can only move so fast. Understanding how
these rules operate and interact leads to insights into application performance.
Understanding why something might perform a certain way makes it much
easier to understand the tradeoffs of a specific design.
Database systems are built according to those rules: memory is faster
than disk which is faster than the network. Database schemas and
queries are built within the rules of database systems. You will hit
the limitations of these rules. If you know what the rules are and why
they are in place, you'll know when it's time to break them... and how
to succeed.
Biography: Jeremiah Peschka @peschkaj helps developers, DBAs, and engineers build faster, robust, and scalable solutions; Microsoft SQL Server is frequently a part of that solution, but other databases are also. He has worked as a database and emerging technology expert at Quest Software researching new trends and technologies around data storage. Before that Jeremiah worked across many industries as a system administrator, developer, and DBA, and has been involved in all aspects of application development and deployment.
Meeting Location:
PH Tech
3993 Fairview Industrial Dr. SE
Salem, Oregon 97302
Agenda:
Introductions
Dinner We will be having deli sandwiches
Chapter News
Speaker: Jeremiah Peschka’s
Award Door Prizes or Giveaways
Networking Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ben Pickett
Twitter: @benptweet #SOSSUG
http://sossug.com
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
March Meeting Canceled
Today’s meeting is Canceled due to weather. We received quite a few members canceling. While Salem is not bad many of our members live in the Corvallis, Albany, Lebanon, and Sweet Home area or up in the hills. Next Month we will have Jeremiah Peschka speaking. We have also picked up a sponsor. Idera is sponsoring our May meeting.
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