database benchmarks: silicon valley sql server user group meeting may 2009

Database BenchmarksSilicon Valley May

2009

Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group

Tonight’s Agenda May 19, 2009

6:30 – 7:00 pm Food and networking 7:00 – 7:05 pm Introductions 7:05 – 8:35 pm Phil Hummel,

Microsoft 8:35 – 9:00 pm Door prize + Q&A

User Group Leader: Mark Ginnebaugh

Mark Ginnebaugh

Parent Organizations

Bay Area Association of Database Developers BAADD www.baadd.org

Professional Association of SQL Server PASS www.sqlpass.org

Join PASS for free!

Sponsors

Microsoft Quest Software Idera VMWare DesignMind

Upcoming Meeting

San Francisco Bay Area Microsoft BI User Group Thursday, May 21 835 Market Street, Suite 700, San Francisco

Donald Farmer (of the SSAS team) Gemini/SQL 2008 R2 BI

Dan Bulos of Symmetry Best practices in cube design

For more info:

Garth Honhartgarth.honhart@511th.com

(408) 529-9958

BAADD Upcoming Meetings

Visual FoxPro User Group Milpitas (May 21)

NET User Group San Francisco (May 27)

Special event: Microsoft Live Messenger Hackathon

SQL Server User Groups San Francisco (June 10) Mountain View (June 16)

Silicon Valley – Summer 2009

June 16

Christa Stelzmuller MySpace The MySpace Data Architecture: Scaling for Stable

and Rapid Growth

July 21

Peter Myers Solid Quality Mentors Taking your Application Design to the Next Level

with Data Mining

August 18

Elizabeth Diamond, DesignMind Architecting a Data Warehouse: A Case Study

Other Announcements

Looking to grow our group Brochures – please share Tell friends/colleagues to join our LinkedIn group

SQL Server 2008 Migration Workshop Held on April 29 – see my blog for details

(ginneblog.com) 55 attendees Slides available on SlideShare.net/markginnebaugh Planning another workshop in Silicon Valley in July

(focused on High Availability)

LinkedIn Group

Name: Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group Currently 100 members

Purpose: Networking Meeting announcements /availability of slide decks

Get involved by adding to the Discussion Post interesting articles/news Put out feelers if you’re looking for work Announce your new job or a completed project Pose a technical question to the group

Tonight’s Speaker

Phil Hummel Technology Architect at Microsoft

Works with Microsoft customers and partners on the SQL Server product line

Performance Benchmarks: Why You Should Care What benchmarks reveal How to interpret benchmark results Demo of a working benchmark test

Performance Benchmarks

What’s Happening Hardware trends Performance best practices System base lining

Performance Benchmarks

History Modern benchmarks Results Tools Applications

Thanks for joining us tonight

SQL Server User Group

www.bayareasql.org