Fusion-io is giving away a solid state storage PCI-e card at the January meeting! Don't miss it!! Date: Monday, January 25, 2010 Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: AT&T Building, located at 1900 Gallows Road Vienna, VA 22182 Main Session Speakers - Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp Title: Essential Database Management - Top Ten Recommendations Abstract: In this session, Paul and Kimberly will run you through their top-ten database maintenance recommendations, with a lot of tips and tricks along the way. These are distilled from almost 30 years combined experience working with SQL Server customers and are geared towards making your databases more performant, more available, and more easily managed (to save you time!). Everything in this session will be practical and applicable to a wide variety of databases. Topics covered and myths debunked include: backups, shrinks, fragmentation, statistics, and much more! Focus will be on 2005 but we'll explain some of the key differences for 2000 and 2008 as well. Joint bio: Paul and Kimberly are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server. Paul worked on the SQL Server team for nine years in development and management roles, writing many of the DBCC commands, and ultimately with responsibility for core Storage Engine for SQL Server 2008. Paul writes extensively on his blog (SQLskills.com/blogs/Paul) and for TechNet Magazine, for which he is also a Contributing Editor. Kimberly worked on the SQL Server team in the early 1990s as a tester and writer before leaving to found SQLskills and embrace her passion for teaching and consulting. Kimberly has been a staple at worldwide conferences since she first presented at TechEd in 1996, and she blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/Kimberly. They have written Microsoft whitepapers and books for SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, and are regular, top-rated presenters worldwide on database maintenance, high availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and SQL Server internals. Together they teach the SQL MCM certification and throughout Microsoft. In their spare time they like to find frogfish in remote corners of the world. Short Session Speakers - Fred Vasofsky and Christian Shrauder Title: SQL Server at the Speed of Light Abstract: In this session, Fred and Christian will be discussing Database acceleration using a new storage/memory architecture that provides drastic performance improvements for databases and enterprise applications. They will also cover new memory/storage tier utilizing solid state drives connected via PCIe to increase transactions/sec (IOPS), reduce latency, and increase throughput. Clay McDonald Database Administrator Bates White, LLC 1300 Eye St, NW, Suite 600 East Washington, DC 20005 Main: 202.408.6110 Cell: 202.560.4101 Direct: 202.747.5962 Email: clay.mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************** This electronic message transmission contains information from Bates White, LLC, which may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify me by telephone at 202.747.5962 or by electronic mail at clay.mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx immediately. *****************************************************