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Next Meeting:
Thursday, July 8, 6:00-8:30pm
Learning Center of Las Vegas
777 N Rainbow, Ste 250.
July 8: We will be entreated to a presentation by Jack Corbett (Co-Pres Orlando PASS). He will be giving the presentation via LiveMeeting. You can attend the Livemeeting online here: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=47Z8F6&role=attend. He will be presenting on an "Introduction to Profiler." The meeting can be joined online at 6PM PST.
June 10: Great News - we will have an Ipod for raffle tonight. Thanks to Fusion IO for bringing us this item.
24 Hours of PASS has Come and Gone. If you missed it, make sure to check the PASS website regularly for the recorded versions.
24Hrs of PASS
Get Free training from PASS May 19,2010. There will be presentations all day on various topics. You can register at 24 Hours of Pass.
June 2010
Fusion IO and Kynetx are scheduled to give presentations in June. It should be a great opportunity to learn about some of the upcoming products (SSD Drives in particular ;) )
May 2010
Jason and Charley presented amidst the carrion and flying monkey.
Charley gave a presentation on SAN setups and migrating from Locally attached storage to the SAN. Charley also showed some of his talents in the circuit board making realm.
Jason gave a presentation on how to find the table size in your database, both for one table or for all tables. The scripts and slide deck are available for download in the resource section.
April 2010
Kerry O'Brien started off the April meeting with an intro into a new Red-Gate Tool. Nice job Kerry.
Stacia Followed that up with a presentation on some more features of R2.
Microsoft won't be able to make it this month. Thanks to Stacia for accepting in lieu of Microsoft. We also are lining up a presentation by Redgate for a new product reveal! Hopefully we will be able to get that confirmed for this month. If not in April, there will be a Redgate presentation in the near future.
March 2010
Jason and Charley gave presentations. Jason led the discussion on Interview type questions. Charley gave a presentation on assigning and picking random records for Auditors.
The Slide deck is available now in the Resources Section. Sorry for the delay.
Feburary 2010
Slavik Markovich from Sentrigo.Com is one of the nicest guys you'd probably never want sitting at your keyboard! Seriously eye-openning presentation on Sql Server Hacking has been posted to the Resources. Than you Slavik! What a cool presentation.
And I've gotta hand it to Stacia. Even with a final chapter to finish this girl is still out there supporting her local Sql group. Stacia, thank you so much for coming up, spending your precious time, and sharing what you know with us. We look forward to reading your latest book. You truly are writing the book on Sql 2008 R2!
January 2010
Thank you Jason Brimhall for another excellent set of database tools.
Jason has really found his was around the internal strucures of SQL,
To discover keys and relationships, in order to optimize indexing.
Jason's blog, SQL RNNR, also has a wealth of information: http://jasonbrimhall.info/
Also my presentation "How managers are like sheep," is posted online.
(201001-02 Practical Hierarchical Structures)
My blog is pretty much a random collection: http://datamanlv.blogspot.com
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