database benchmarks: silicon valley sql server user group meeting may 2009
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Database Benchmarking is the topic at the Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group on May 19, 2009. Phil Hummel, Microsoft Technology Architect, is the speaker.TRANSCRIPT
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 [email protected]
(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