Louisville SQL Server Users Group May 2014

Welcome! Thanks for Joining Us! Join our chapter (officially) via the PASS Website: http://www.sqlpass.org Visit our website for meeting info: http://louisville.sqlpass.org Join our Facebook page to stay connected with other members: https://www.facebook.com/groups/louisvillesqlpass

Welcome X-IO – Sponsor for May 2014!! X-IO is a recognized innovator in the storage industry. The X-IO Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) systems are based on two decades of invention and investment by veteran storage industry experts, and deliver unmatched price/performance, reliability and scale for enterprise and cloud applications and infrastructure. The company’s plug-and-perform ISE storage arrays are customer-proven to accelerate transactional, reporting and business intelligence applications by a factor of 3X or more; drive extreme performance and scale for virtual desktop and virtualized server infrastructures; and with five- to seven-year duty cycles, a super-efficient energy and space profile, and the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). X-IO solutions have been recognized as SQL Server Magazine and Windows IT Pro’s 2011 Editors’ Best Gold Medal winners, the 2012 Best of TechEd “Hardware and Storage Product” and “Attendees’ Pick” Awards, and inclusion in CRN’s 2012 Data Center 100 List. Visit us at http://www.x-io.com/

2014 Monthly Meetings Date Time Venue Topic Speaker May 8 11:30am – 1:30pm Humana SQL Performance with X-IO Storage Jeff Boling Jun 12 6:00pm – 8:00pm TBD SQL Server Statistics Sreeni Julakanti Jul 10 Trends in Big Data With PDW Tony Mattas Aug 14 Visual Studio Database Tools Dave Fackler Sep 11 Contained Databases Malathi Mahadevan Oct 9 Backup Internals Tim Chapman Nov 13 Columnstore Indexes in SQL 2014 Dec 11 Holiday Party

2014 SQL Saturday Line-up! SQL Saturday provides a fantastic, FREE day of SQL Server training! Different tracks for different topics (DBA, BI, Dev, etc.) Typically pay small fee for lunch Pre-cons sometimes offered (at additional cost) Great way to spend a Saturday learning more about SQL Server Columbus – June 14 Louisville – June 21 Indianapolis – Aug 9 Birmingham – Aug 23 Raleigh – Sep 6 Charlotte – Oct 4 (BI Edition)

Louisville SQL Saturday #286 June 21 at Indiana Wesleyan University Registration is open! Session schedule has been set Volunteer committee headed up by Malathi Mahadevan (contact her to volunteer!) Visit http://www.sqlsaturday.com/286/eventhome.aspx to register, find the schedule, etc.

Louisville SQL Saturday #286 Pre-Cons for June 20 announced!! Query Performance Tuning in SQL Server (Grant Fritchey, Red Gate Software) BI Solutions from Start to Finish (Dave Fackler, resident expert and wise guy ) All-day training session for $120 (includes breakfast refreshments and boxed lunch) Registration links and information on the Louisville SQL Saturday #286 website

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