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

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Ben Pickett
Twitter: @benptweet #SOSSUG
http://sossug.com

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.

February SOSSUG Meeting

Reminder,

February SOSSUG Meeting Tomorrow at 5:30. We will provide Pizza and Drinks. The topic chosen at last month’s meeting is Enterprise Database Administration.

PH Tech
3993 Fairview Industrial Dr. SE
Salem, Oregon 97302

Agenda:

Introductions
Chapter News
Enterprise Database Administration and Deployment – PASS Summit Recording. Note that we received our DVD disks from PASS.
We will decide on speakers and topics for the next three months at this meeting. We will also discuss meeting times.
Award Door Prizes or Giveaways
Networking Time

No Meeting For January 2012

We are not having a meeting in January. We will begin having meetings again starting February 21st at 5:30 PM. Look forward to seeing everyone.

Ben

October Meeting

Our October 18th at 5:30 at PH Tech is tomorrow. We will be providing Pizza and Drinks.

PH Tech
3993 Fairview Industrial Dr. SE
Salem, Oregon 97302

Agenda:

Introductions

Chapter News
Speaker - I will be giving a presentation on the takeaways from the SQL PASS conference in Seattle. We will then open up for others to bring highlights of what they learned from the conference.
Award Door Prizes or Giveaways
Networking Time



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September SOSSUG Meeting

I am excited to announce the our next meeting is September 20th at 5:30 at PH Tech. We will be providing Pizza and Drinks.

PH Tech
3993 Fairview Industrial Dr. SE
Salem, Oregon 97302

Agenda:

Introductions

Chapter News
Speaker - Data Mining Presentation by Peter Myer's
Award Door Prizes or Giveaways
Survey Future Topics for Speakers
Networking Time



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August Meeting Update

Great news for the upcoming August 16th meeting at 5:30. Kendra Little will be our feature speaker.

Topic: Tell Me Where It Hurts: Three Cures for the Common Slow

Does your SQL Server sometimes just feel "slow"? Kendra Little knows how to quickly diagnose the 'Common Slow': long running queries, query timeouts, and maintenance jobs that get longer every week. Kendra shows you how to find where it hurts and select the cure-- and how to avoid killing the patient.

Bio

Kendra Little is all about data, communication, and creativity. Kendra is a founder at Brent Ozar PLF, LLC, where she specializes in high availability and performance tuning. She is a Microsoft Certified Master in SQL Server-- the highest technical SQL Server Certification available. In her spare time, Kendra draws quirky posters that start conversations about technology.

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