Hello Dear Reader!
SQL Saturday 85 coming to you from beautiful sunny Orlando Florida is
just around the corner. What better way
to start of a Saturday then starting it on Friday!
“But Balls,” you
say, “How do you start a Friday on a Saturday?”
You start it off with not One, but TWO Amazing Pre-Conference
Seminars. Today we will be discussing our DBA Pre-Conference Session with Microsoft's Buck Woody.
BUCK WOODY IS A
WANTED MAN
Microsoft’s Buck Woody(@buckwoody | Blog) is a wanted man. He is a highly sought after speaker, he is a
highly sought after consultant, and he is an educator in the ways of Database
Information Systems, specializing in SQL Server. He was a Microsoft MVP before he decided to
go home to the mother ship and work for Microsoft as a Sr. Technology
Specialist. The man teaches Database
Design for the University of Washington.
If I wanted to go on even further I could mention the
hundreds of published articles he has on SQL Server, I could name drop some of
the conferences he has presented at in the past, TechEd, the PASS Summit, or SQL Cruise just to name a few. Perhaps I could tout his work in the SQL
Community, serving as the President for the Tampa Bay SQL Server Users group
for FIVE years.
Perhaps I could tell you about the prestigious places he’s
worked, other than Microsoft, like when he was a contractor for NASA or the US
Air Force. Perhaps we could look at the
multiple books that he has written, or the multiple certifications that he has
obtained across multiple database platforms.
We could talk about his antics, his quick wit, his uncanny delivery that
stems from his time in radio.
However you want to spell it Buck Woody is a wanted
man. And I can tell you where he will be
Dear Reader. I can tell you exactly
where he will be on Friday September 23rd from 9 am until 5 pm. And I can tell you what he will be doing as
well. He will be doing one of the things
that he does the very best. He will be
teaching. And you Dear Reader, if you
are lucky enough to attend you will be learning.
And what will you be learning about Dear Reader? We’ll let’s get that straight from Buck.
SQL SERVER
PERFORMANCE TUNING USING APPLICATION PATH ANALYSIS
There are a lot of resources, products and
features you can use to tune the performance of your SQL Server system. Many
assume you’re familiar with 400-level concepts, others don’t consider the whole
stack of the client, the network, the operating system, platform and the
database server. Buck Woody, Microsoft’s real-world DBA, will explain a simple,
repeatable process you can follow to tune your entire application – from the
client to the server. All of the tools we’ll cover are included with Windows
and SQL Server:
· Using Windows System Monitoring Tools
· The SQL Profiler and Server Trace
· Database Engine Tuning Advisor
In this pre-conference session you’ll cover not
only the process, but also review a real-world evaluation. You’ll take home a
system and a spreadsheet you can use to monitor and tune your applications, in
a simple, easy-to-understand session.
But that’s not all, he’s not just going to be teaching about
the subject. He wants to give you hands
on experience with it. Not that long ago
I received this email from Buck.
“Hello – thanks for signing
up for the pre-conference session on SQL Server Performance Tuning. I’ve done
quite a lot of speaking and teaching, and the most informative way for us to
learn together is by working through some projects during the session. If
you’re able, I’d like you to bring a laptop, a copy of SQL Server 2008
(Evaluation Edition is fine, Developer Edition is best) and the AdventureWorks
sample database. You can learn more about that here: http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=sqlserver&seqNum=286
Also, feel free to bring any
performance questions you have. As always, make sure you protect your company’s
private information, but we’ll work through some real-world issues in class, so
feel free to share what you can.
See you there!
Buck”
So you will have a full day with one of the best, brightest,
and most respected in our field today.
But to add icing to the cake he wants you to bring a copy of a database
and your computer so you can get some hands on training.
This isn’t just telling you what you need to do, and then
you leave sitting in a situation at work thinking, “Man that Buck Woody Pre-Con
was great! Now if only I could remember
what he said about that DMV!?”. This is
hands on training so you can go back to work and apply what you’ve learned
right away. Did I mention that it
includes coffee, tea, and Lunch?
Here is your chance Dear Reader, go sign up and we’ll see
you there! Click Here to Sign UP!
Thanks,
Brad
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