SQL Saturday 79 Deck's & Materials

Good Morning Dear Reader or Dear SQL Saturday Attendee!   This is a quick post to link you over to my Resource Page, CLICK HERE to go to the page.  My Resource Page contains the Slide Decks, as well as the Demos (for my sessions that have demo's), for all 3 presentations I'm doing today at SQL Saturday 79.  It's around 4 am and I'm about to hit the road, hope you have a great day and I look forward to seeing you at SQL Saturday 79 South Florida!!

THANK YOU OPASS!

I just wanted to post a quick place holder.  I'll update this post later in the day with some more details and a link to my Slide Deck & Demo's from last evenings presentation for OPASS, the SQL Server User Group from Orlando.

And most of all I just wanted to say a BIG Thank You to everyone who braved the weather and the traffic to make it out last night!  OPASS is always an awesome group of people to present to, and it was a nice and intimate setting with a lot of good back and forth with the audience.  It is always great to see friends and familar faces, and OPASS did not dissapoint!

Thanks Again!

Brad

Presenting Tonight at OPASS!

Hello Dear Reader just wanted to write a quick post.  I will be at OPASS Tonight presenting Page & Row Compression How, Why, and When.  I’ve presented on this topic many times, and it is always a great time.  Tomorrow I’ll have my deck and demo’s posted on my Resource Page.

Compression is a topic that has a lot of depth to it and this is a good introduction into the subject.  If you get a chance to come out we are meeting at the Hampton Inn at Lake Mary in North Orlando.  Here are the full details on the Event.  Hope to see you there!

Event Date/Time:

Tuesday August 9 @ 6:00 PM

Location:

Hampton Inn Lake Mary
850 Village Oak Lane
Lake Mary, FL 32746

Map/Directions:

Bing Map to Event Location

 

Bradley Ball

Speaker Bio:

Bradley Ball is a MCITP SQL 2005 & MCTS 2008 DBA with over 10 years of IT experience.  Bradley spent 8 years working as a Defense contractor for clients such as the U.S. Army and The Executive Office Of the President of the United States.  He is currently a Sr. SQL DBA Staff Specialist for Publix Supermarkets.  He has presented at SQL Saturdays 62 & 74, for the MAGICPASS & OPASS SSUG’s, SQL Rally, and at the PASS Summit in 2011. Bradley can be found blogging on http://www.sqlballs.com

Title:

Page and Row Compression How, When, and Why

Abstract:

Page and Row Compression are powerful new tools. Vardecimal shipped with SQL 2005 SP2, Page & Row with SQL 2008 RTM, and Page & Row with Unicode Compression with SQL 2008 R2. Get an overview into how each version of compression works internally. Learn how your Allocation Units will determine if your data is a candidate for compression. Understand how your tables Update and Scan pattern’s affect the compression types you should consider. And what you should you take into consideration for additional overhead.

SQL Shot Speaker: Rodney Landrum

Speaker Bio:

Rodney Landrum has been architecting solutions for SQL Server for over 12 years. He has worked with and written about many SQL Server technologies, including DTS, Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. He has authored three books on Reporting Services. He is been a regular contributor to SQL Server magazine, sqlservercentral.com and Simple-talk.com. Rodney is also SQL Server MVP.

SQL Shot Title:

Availability Groups and High Availability/Disaster Recovery (HADR) for SQL Denali

Abstract:

Rodney will be giving the group a high level overview of your HADR options and how you can leverage this technology for reporting applications.

 

To RSVP Click HERE to go to the OPASS Website.

Thanks,

Brad