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Change of Date / Time for September’s User Group Meeting
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN BOTH THE DATE AND TIME FOR SEPTEMBER’S USER GROUP MEETING. DUE TO THE MICROSOFT PARTNER CONFERENCE AT THE GOLD COAST THE SESSION HAD TO BE RE-SCHEDULED.
I am planning to run a custom SQL Server 2008 DBA course again, so please email me for further details if you are interested. It will cover SQL Server 2005 – 2008 R2, and include tips / help on achieving the Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Database Administrator certification.
I am planning to run a customised SQL Server 2008 DBA course again, so please email me for further details if you are interested. It will cover SQL Server 2005 – SQL Server 2008 R2, and include tips / help on achieving the Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Database Administrator certification. (After all, I helped write and validate the exams.) I believe this course will be far superior to what is being offered in the “plain vanilla” courses offered by other training companies. Please contact me via victor @ sql server solutions . com . au for more information.
For the next session I thought we would cover how to track changes in SQL Server, whether it’s for audit purposes, loading data into a data warehouse, or a myriad of other reasons.
In September the Sydney SQL Server Enterprise User Group will be having a meeting as outlined below:
Date |
8th September, 2010 |
Time |
12:30 |
Agenda |
12:30 – 13:00: Registration / Networking / Product Demonstration 13:00 – 13:15: News / Case Study 13:15 – 14:30: Presentation |
Location |
Sydney Mechanics’ School Arts 280 Pitt Street Sydney NSW 2000 |
Session |
DBD: Tracking Changes – Change Data Capture vs. Change Tracking vs. SQL Audit SQL Server 2008 introduced a number of new features to help track changes in your databases: Change Tracking, Change Data Capture, and SQL Server Audit. These 3 different technologies each have their strengths and weaknesses. Consequently it is important to understand which technology is appropriate for the use case at hand. In this session, Victor Isakov will present on these various technologies and how they architecturally work to help you decide which technology to use for your database solutions. Speaker: Victor Isakov | SQL Server Solutions |
There will be a number of door prizes given out at this meeting.
Sydney SQL Server Enterprise User Group – August 2010
DBA: Understanding SQL Server Memory Management
Thanks again for such a good turnout, and all your positive feedback.
Understanding SQL Server’s memory management is such a complex topic, we could easily have spent half a day on it. Apologies for going over the allotted time, I know you have work to go back to.
Hopefully this will help you in your configuration and troubleshooting of SQL Server.
One clarification, each scheduler “consumes” 2MB on a x64 architecture, and 4MB on the IA architecture. (See Slide 41.)
BTW, I passed the ITIL exam!
Congratulations to David for winning the major door prize at the last meeting, a license of the Idera SQL Admin Toolset (valued at AUD $432) that was generously provided by Idera (www.idera.com) and Tony Finnemore from SQL Tools (www.sqltools.com.au).
The content from this month’s meeting is posted below.