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Next Meeting
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:00pm

Topic:

AlwaysOn - Finally, A usable 'mirror'!

In the past, High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) had many limitations. Clustering and Mirroring are great, but the mirror/secondary database is not very usable since it is not online. Finally, AlwaysOn solves this limitation by merging both multi-node Clustering and mirroring. AlwaysOn also allows the secondary database to remain ONLINE, so we can use it for reporting purposes without resorting to a Snapshot! Come see this lively session with extensive demos of setting up, configuring and testing AlwaysOn. We'll also test automatic fail-over using a real web app to see how well that feature works.
Location:  Microsoft Campus in Las Colinas Bldg: LC1. For more info click here
Speaker:
Jim Murphy has been using Microsoft SQL Server since version 6.0 back in the 90's. He is the President/CEO of SQLWatchmen, LLC., a managed DBA service provider for smaller companies who do not need a full-time DBA. He runs the Austin SQL Server User Group: CACTUSS Central and sits on the board of POSSE. He has been a professional DBA and developer for over 20 years and has run a consulting company full-time for over 10 years.
Download: TBD
Meeting Sponsor: This month's meeting is being sponsored by The Insource Group. We want to thank them for their support by buying the food and drink for this meeting.

 

    
NCC-1701-DBA Series

Sean McCown will be teaching a new series called NCC-1701-DBA

This is what you can expect to learn from this series:

Let’s make you an enterprise DBA. In this series we’ll of course be focusing on SQL Server in the enterprise, but much more importantly we’ll be covering the DBA himself. How can a single DBA take control of a large shop and make even huge tasks seem simple and mundane? How can a single DBA manage requests from hundreds of users and still get to lunch on time? Running a large enterprise is much more about setting up the DBA properly than it is about SQL Server itself. If you’ve been a DBA for any length of time, it’s time to change your mindset and start thinking about things the right way. In this series we’re going to learn how to set up your entire environment so it works for you and does what you tell it. You’ll be 10x more responsive to requests and even have time to do some real DBA work. We’ll also talk about ways to take you from busy to productive. If you manage any number of servers this is a class you can’t afford to miss. There will be a host of technologies used because in an enterprise we have a host of them available to us. It will be strong on Powershell, but it’ll also be strong on T-SQL, SSRS, and whatever else we need to get the job done. It’s time to take your DBA skills to the next level and this is the beginning of your journey.

During Sean's series our schedule will change slightly to accomodate all this free training.  The series will run from January through June at the beginning of our user group meetings.  We will continue to always start at 6pm and here is the schedule.

6:00 - 6:20 - Welcome, Announcements & Food
6:20 - 7:20 - NCC-1701-DBA by Sean McCown
7:30 - 8:30 - Presentation
8:30 - 8:45 - Raffle and closing.

NTSSUG wishes to thank Sean for his time, hard work, and sacrifice to continually provide our group with top notch technical training.

 

    
SQLRally Dallas Registration Now Open
Registration Now Open!

 

The Professional Association for SQL Server and the North Texas SQL Server User Group have been working hard behind the scenes to bring SQLRally 2012 in Dallas Texas to the SQL Community. We are excited to announce that event registration opens November 30, 2011.

Make sure to get registered soon and take advantage of the early bird pricing. Pricing starts at $299 and the first price increase will take place on January 15th, 2012.

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