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April 16, 2015: SIOS is Proud to Sponsor The Detroit SQL Server User Group

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SIOS is proud to sponsor the Detroit SQL Server User Group’s April meeting. If you’re in the area, I highly recommend checking out this month’s session, “Updating Statistics Affects Query Performance More Than You Think,” presented by Erin Stellato, Principal Consultant SQLskills.com. Visit detroit.sqlpass.org for additional information.

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Location: Microsoft, Southfield Town Center, 1000 Town Center Dr., Suite 1930, Southfield, MI 48075
Date: April 16, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Cost: This is a free event, food and refreshments will also be provided at no cost courtesy of SIOS Technology.

Session Abstract

Stop me if you’ve heard this one, “This query is slow, let’s update statistics.” But what does updating statistics *really* do to your query performance? And is it the right solution? While updating statistics may provide a short-term solution, it can bury the true root cause. If you’re not familiar with what happens to query plans when you update statistics, then don’t miss this session. We’ll set the stage with a review of what statistics are, how the optimizer uses them, and discuss the various ways you can update them. Then we’ll explore what happens to plans when you *do* update statistics, and you’ll see why that might not always be the right long-term solution

About Erin Stellato

Erin Stellato is a Principal Consultant with SQLskills and lives in Cleveland, OH. She has over 12 years of technology experience and has worked with SQL Server since 2003. Her areas of interest include internals, performance tuning, and high availability and disaster recovery. Erin is a SQL Server MVP and an active member of the SQL Server community. She is involved with the Ohio North SQL Server User Group and blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/erin. You can find her on Twitter at @ErinStellato.

 

April 14-15 2015: SIOS is Sponsoring and Attending POSSCON 2015

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SIOS is proud to sponsor Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON). If you’re in the area, I highly recommend joining this two day event. POSSCON brings a lineup of leading IT leaders to the Southeast for 3 days to discuss the latest issues for developers, executives, government leaders and educators. In addition to the educational value, this is also a fantastic place to network, learn and meet leading technology leaders and companies.

Stop by the SIOS booth to say hello,  learn about new job opportunities with SIOS, and take part in our SIOS iQ UI usability study. Study participants will receive a Starbucks gift card and be entered into our usability final prize draw for a chance to win something great!

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POSSCON 2015
April 14-15, 2015
Columbia, SC
Price: $109-$149 (Student pricing valid student ID: $29-$39)
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April 13, 2015: SIOS is Sponsoring SQL Server User Group Atlanta — Atlanta MDF

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SIOS is proud to sponsor the Atlanta SQL Server User Group’s April meeting. If you’re in the area, I highly recommend checking out this month’s session “Dr. DMVs Troubleshooting Toolkit” presented by SQL Server MVP, Glenn Berry.

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Location: Microsoft – 1125 Sanctuary Pkwy. Suite 300 Alpharetta, GA 30009
Date: April 13, 2014
Time: 6:30 – 9:00 PM Eastern

Session Abstract

Dr DMVs Troubleshooting Toolkit

Dynamic Management Views and functions allow you to easily see exactly what is happening inside your SQL Server instances and databases with a high level of detail. You can discover your top wait types, most CPU intensive stored procedures, find missing indexes, and identify unused indexes, to name just a few examples. This session presents, demonstrates and explains numerous DMV queries that you can quickly and easily use to detect and diagnose configuration and performance issues in your SQL Server instances and databases.

About Glenn Berry

Glenn works as a Principal Consultant at SQLskills in Parker, CO. He has been a SQL Server MVP since 2007. He is also an Adjunct Faculty member at University College – University of Denver, where has been teaching since 2000. He has completed the Master Teacher Program at Denver University – University College. He is the author of the book SQL Server Hardware. Glenn blogs regularly at http://sqlserverperformance.wordpress.com. He is active on Twitter as @GlennAlanBerry.

 

UPDATE: April 8, 2015: SIOS Sponsors San Francisco SQL Server User Group

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SIOS is proud to sponsor the San Francisco SQL Server User Group’s April meeting. If you’re in the area, I highly recommend joining month’s speaker Joel Champagne. He will be presenting, “Pretty Big Data in the Real World.”

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Date: April 8, 2014
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Location:

Microsoft Office
Bank of America Building
555 California Street, 3rd floor
San Francisco, CA

Cost: This is a free event – Food and Drinks will also be provided at no cost.

Note: This is the Bank of America building. If you have RSVP’d, the guard will give you access to the 3rd floor. In order to be approved by Microsoft security, you must RSVP with your first and last name, and bring photo ID with you.

March 28, 2015: SIOS Sponsoring and Presenting at SQLSaturday Silicon Valley

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Image -- SQLSaturday Silicon Valley #375Register Now for SQLSaturday Silicon Valley
When: Saturday, March 28, 2015 (8:00am – 5:00pm)
Where: Microsoft  – 1065 La Avenida, Building One, Mountain View, CA, 94043
Cost: $10 to cover the cost of lunch, the event itself is free

SIOS is proud to be a platinum sponsor at SQLSaturday Silicon Valley. Be sure to visit the SIOS table for your chance to learn more about our SAN and #SANLess solutions, enjoy some candy and drop off your raffle ticket for your chance to enter our end of day $100 Amex raffle. There are a number of great tracks so be sure to plan your schedule well in advance (schedule). Also be sure to join our “Clusters Your Way.™” panelist discussion presented by Microsoft MVPs Denny Cherry and Joey D’Antoni. The details are as follows.

Lunch Session

Clusters Your Way Discussion Panel — A real-world take on flexibly protecting SQL Server and beyond
Presented by: Denny Cherry, Joey D’Antoni and SIOS Technology
When: 1:00pm
Where: Room – Saturn (located on the second floor)

In this unique lunch session Microsoft SQL Server MVPs Denny Cherry and Joey D’Antoni will discuss their own personal experiences for creating and implementing a cost effective high availability and disaster recovery solutions. They’ll be covering the protection of Tier-1 applications in the cloud, getting the most out of SQL Server Standard Edition, and of course be there to answer your own clustering questions. Attend and you could win – up to $100.

About SQLSaturday Silicon Valley

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This event will be held March 28, 2015 at the Microsoft Technology Center – 1065 La Avenida, Building One, Mountain View, CA, 94043. Speakers include several well-known professionals, SQL Server Masters, trainers, mentors, conference presenters and book authors from all over the world, the US, and our local community. These are many of the same industry leaders who present many of the same sessions at the PASS Global Summit and other international conferences. Lunch, snacks and raffle prizes are included for registered attendees. Registration begins at 7:30. Sessions run throughout the day from 8:30 to 5:30. Admittance to this event is free, but there is a small $10 fee to help cover the cost of lunch – not pizza. Please register soon as seating is limited, and invite friends and colleagues to join us. Please check this site as we get closer to the event for session scheduling and other announcements.