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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
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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!
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Sponsors
Microsoft Quest Software Idera VMWare DesignMind
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Performance Benchmarks
What’s Happening Hardware trends Performance best practices System base lining
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Performance Benchmarks
History Modern benchmarks Results Tools Applications
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Thanks for joining us tonight
SQL Server User Group
www.bayareasql.org