Next Meeting will be Thursday
September 11, 2008
Time:
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location:
Microsoft Office in Southfield
1000 Towncenter
Suite 1930
Southfield, MI 48075
Registration:
Please
email Charles Deaton, charlie@sqlsig.org to register; we need
an accurate count to determine the amount of food to order.
Direction to the meeting can be found at
the
official home of the Detroit SQL Server User Group by clicking here.
Topic:
A Day in the Life of a DBA
Performance Tuning with SQL Server 2008
Learn about the Data Collector,
the Enterprise Data Warehouse and new reports in SQL Server Management
Studio (SSMS) can automate gathering performance data and give you guidance
on what to tune and where. You’ll be able to spot historical performance
trends, and you’ll learn how to implement these fantastic new features in
SQL Server 2008.
Speaker:
Buck Woody
Buck Woody has been working with
Information Technology since 1981. He has worked for the U.S. Air Force, at
an IBM reseller as technical support, and for NASA as well as U.S. Space
Command as an IT contractor. He has worked in most all IT positions from
computer repair technician to system and database administrator, and from
network technician to IT Manager. But it is the database field he always
returns to. He has been a DBA and Database Developer on everything from an
Oracle system running on a VAX to SQL Server and DB2 installations. Buck has
a business degree and several industry certifications, including MCSE, MCDBA
and Brainbench DBA. He is the author of over 300 SQL Server articles and
four published SQL Server books; he is the site personality on
InformIT.com's SQL web, and was the President of the Tampa SQL User's Group
for 5 years. He was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award in 2006 for SQL Server,
and started work in the SQL Server Team at Microsoft a year later. He has
over twenty years extensive professional and practical experience in
computer networks and network design. Experienced in design and management
of business and technical systems, as well as marketing and training those
systems to the user community and corporate officers.
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