Tuesday April 17th, 2012
Using Confio's Ignite tool to Monitor Database Performance and Wait States
Presented by Steven Estep
Tuesday March 20th, 2012
Mastering Knowledge Bases with Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012
Presented by Arie Jones, Perpetual Technologies
Tuesday February 21st, 2012
SQL Server Memory Management: Mythbuster Edition
Presented by Joe McTaggart, Microsoft
Tuesday January 17th, 2012
T-SQL Tips & Tricks
2011
Tuesday December 20th, 2011
Master Data Services in SQL Server 2012
Presented by Arie Jones, Perpetual Technologies
Tuesday November 15th, 2011
Page Latching for Mere Mortals
Presented by Eddie Wuerch, Exact Target
Tuesday October 18th, 2011
A complete BI Solution in about an hour!
Presented by Aaron King, Woundvision
Tuesday September 20th, 2011
SQL Server Codename Denali – What’s New?
Presented by Joe Carver, Microsoft
Tuesday August 16th, 2011
Monitoring and Alerting with SQL Agent and Powershell
Kyle Neier
Tuesday July 19th, 2011
Partitioning Doesn't Have To Cause A Splitting Headache
Montrial Harrell, Broadstroke Consulting
Tuesday June 21, 2011
The Benefits of SQL Azure
Aaron King, Woundvision TIS
Tuesday May 17th, 2011
What Can't Powershell Do?
Hope Foley, Perpetual Technologies
Tuesday April 19th, 2011
Master Data Services
Arie Jones, Perpetual Technologies, Inc.
Tuesday March 15th, 2011
SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse 2008 R2 Drilldown
Presented by Derek Comingore, BI Voyage
Tuesday February 15th, 2011
Find Performance and Capacity Problems by Reading the Waits
Tuesday January 18th, 2011
Sharing Report Components
Presented by David Leininger, Defender Direct
2010
Tuesday December 21st, 2010
Geographic Analysis with Spacial Data
Presented by Dan Crawford, Integrated Network Strategies
Tuesday November 16th, 2010
Journey From Student to DBA
Presented by Tom Ahler
Ask The Experts (bring your questions!)
Facilitated by Steven Estep
Tuesday October 19th, 2010
Sharepoint for the DBA
Guest Speaker: Jim Grabinski and Hope Foley, Perpetual Technologies, Inc.
Tuesday September 21st, 2010
SQL Server Synonyms
Guest Speaker: Steven Estep, Crowe Horwath
Tuesday August 10th, 2010
** Meeting cancelled **
Tuesday July 20th, 2010
Using SQL Server 2008 Auditing Feature for PCI Compliance
Guest Speaker: Kyle Neier
Tuesday June 15th, 2010
Accelerating SQL with Solid State Technology
Guest Speaker: Darren Burton, Fusion IO
Tuesday May 18th, 2010
Multiple Instance Consolidation Practices
Guest Speaker: Alex Prusakov
Tuesday April 20th, 2010
Writing Effective Queries
Guest Speaker: Eddie Wuerch, ExactTarget
Tuesday March 16th, 2010
Gemini
Guest Speaker: Derek Comingore, BI Voyage
Tuesday February 16th, 2010
Database Object Schemas
Guest Speaker: Steven Estep, Crowe Horwath
Tuesday January 19th, 2010
SQL Service Brokers
Guest Speaker: Dan Crawford, Integrated Network Strategies
2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Tuna Helper - Proven Process for Tuning SQL
Guest Speaker: Janis Griffin, Confio Software
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Kilimanjaro
Guest Speaker: Tom Pizzato, Microsoft Corporation
October 20, 2009
Virtualization of SQL Server
Guest Speaker: Steve Brunner, Mezolink
September 15, 2009
Database Normalization
Guest Speaker: Arie Jones, Perpetual Technologies, Inc.
August 18, 2009
SQL Server 2008 Policy Based Management
Guest Speaker: Joe Carver, Microsoft Corporation
July 21, 2009
Go Big, Go Huge... Go Fast!
Leveraging Table Partitioning to Speed Performance and Ease Management of Large Tables
Guest Speaker: Eddie Wuerch, ExactTarget
June 16, 2009
DTS to SSIS Conversion: What Are Your Options?
Guest Speaker: Mike Davis, PragmaticWorks
May 19, 2009
SAN multipathing and how to test it with SQLIO
Guest Speaker: Brent Ozar, Quest Software
April 21, 2009
Looking into the Cloud with SQL Server Data Services
Guest Speaker: Tom Pizzato, Microsoft Corporation
March 17, 2009
Comparing Clustering Methods
Guest Speaker: Alex Prusakov, Sr. Microsoft Consultant, Perpetual Technologies
The slides for this presentation can be found at http://www.slideshare.net/AlexDepo/compare-clustering-methods-for-ms-sql-server
February 17, 2009
Introduction To Transparent Data Encryption
Guest Speaker: John Magnabosco, SolutionAvenue
January 20, 2009
Wait-Time Based SQL Server Performance Management
Guest Speaker: Dean Richards, Senior DBA, Confio Software
2008
December 16, 2008
I/O Performance Considerations
Guest Speaker: James Jordan, Strategic Data Management
November 18, 2008
Powershell in SQL Server 2008
Guest Speaker: AJ Jones, Perpetual Technologies, Inc. (PTI)
October 21, 2008
101 Things NOT to do on a SQL Server (tales from the field)
Guest Speaker: Bryan Oliver, SQL Server Domain Expert at Quest Software
September 16, 2008
LINQ to SQL
Guest Speaker: George Huey, Microsoft Corporation
August 19, 2008
Tuning T-SQL (Plus CLS vs. T-SQL)
Guest Speaker: AJ Jones, Perpetual Technologies, Inc. (PTI)
July 15, 2008
Deadlock Graphs and Event Notifications
Guest Speaker: Eddie Wuerch, Exact Target
June 17, 2008
3rd Annual Birthday Bash
Guest Speaker: Tom Pizzato, Microsoft Corporation
Surprize Guest: Buck Foley, Internationally Renowned Motivational Speaker
May 20, 2008
Introduction to SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) and SQL Server Replication Management Objects (RMO)
Guest Speaker: AJ Jones, Perpetual Technologies, Inc. (PTI)
April 15, 2008
Analysis Services and BI
Guest Speaker: Craig Utley
March 18, 2008
VSTS for Databases
Guest Speaker: Paul Hacker, Microsoft MVP!
February 19, 2008
ToolReview 2008
SQL Compare from Red-Gate Review by Steven Estep
Change Director from Quest Software Review by Jamal Khan
SQL Delta from The Australian Software Company Review by Dave Leininger
January 16, 2008
SQL Server Disk Partition Alignment:
Increase I/O Throughput by up to 30% or More
(The Best Kept Secret in SQL Server Disk I/O Performance)
Guest Speaker: Jimmy May, Microsoft Corporation
2007
December 2007
November 20, 2007
Achieving Identity Protection Through PCI Compliance
Guest Speaker: Joshua Forman, Symplified
October 16, 2007
Thinking Outside the Box: Creating A Design Solution to Overcome Complex Business Needs
Guest Speaker: Arie 'AJ' Jones, Perpetual Technologies
September 18,2007
Common Table Expressions and Better performing Indexes
Guest Speaker: Steven Estep, Crowe Chizek
August 21, 2007
SQL Server 2008: What's New?
Guest Speaker: Joe Carver of Microsoft Corporation
July 17, 2007
A Practical Guide to Making Sense of Your SQL Server Application Performance
Guest Speaker: Taya Blanchard of Quest Software
June 14, 2007
2nd Annual Birthday Bash
Guest Speaker: Bill Baker, SQL Server Business Intelligence General Manager at Microsoft
Special Entertainment: Buck Foley, Internationally Renowned Motivational Speaker
Musical Entertainment: Right on Red
May 15, 2007
DoubleHeader Night
1) Introducing Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals
Guest Speaker: Paul J. Hacker, Independent Software Engineer
2) Lock and Block Management Strategies
Guest Speaker: Joe Carver, Microsoft Corporation
April 18, 2007
Open Mic Night
March 20, 2007
SQL IO
Guest Speaker: Joe Carver, Microsoft Corporation
February 20, 2007
2nd Annual Winter Challenge
Congratulations to Boby Joseph, Winner of Winter Challenge 2007.
January 16, 2007
Best Practices for Auditing & Securing SQL Server Databases
Guest Speaker: Jeremy Gaige, Senior Software Engineer, Idera
2006
December 19, 2006
Business Intelligence and PASS Recap
Guest Speaker:Bret Updegraff
November 21, 2006
Threat Modeling
Guest Speaker: John Magnabosco
October 19, 2006
Stored Procedures Best Practices
Guest Speaker: Kevin Kline of Quest Software and the President of PASS
September 19, 2006
Windows PowerShell and SQL Server 2005
August 15, 2006
Disaster Recovery
Guest Speaker: Bob Roudebush of NSI
July 18, 2006
SQL Server Analysis Services
Guest Speaker: Joe Carver, Database Technology Specialist with Microsoft
June 29, 2006
1st Annual Birthday Bash
Guest Speaker: Bill Baker, SQL Server Business Intelligence General Manager at Microsoft.
Special Entertainment: Buck Foley, Internationally Renowned Motivational Speaker.
May 16, 2006
Integrating Reporting Services into Visual Studio 2005
Guest Speaker: Denise Herne, of Crowe Chizek
April 18, 2006
SQL Server 2005 Management and Performance Tools
Guest Speaker: Joe Carver, Database Technology Specialist with Microsoft
March 21, 2006
*Meeting Cancelled*
Our March meeting was cancelled due to a Spring Snow Storm.
February 21, 2006
Winter Challenge 2006
Congratulations to Tom Waltz, Winner of Winter Challenge 2006.
January 17, 2006
MyGeneration Tool
Guest Speaker: Mike Griffin from MyGeneration Software
2005
December 15, 2005
The Best of SQL Server 2005 Launch
The Microsoft event titled "The Best of SQL Server 2005 Launch" took the place of our regularly scheduled meeting.
November 15, 2005
Open Mic Night
October 18, 2005
Reporting Services
Guest Speaker: Bret Updegraff
September 20, 2005
DTS and Integration Services
Guest Speaker: Bret Updegraff
August 16, 2005
Backup and Recovery Best Practices
Guest Speaker: Bryan Oliver, Lead Developer at Quest Software.
July 19, 2005
SQL Server 2005 Overview
Guest Speaker: Tom Pizzato, Database Technology Specialist with Microsoft
June 16, 2005
User Group Kick Off Meeting
Guest Speaker: Bill Baker, head of the Business Intelligence Unit within the SQL Server product development group.