Triad SQL Server Users Group

		Welcome
We have meetings on the second Thursday of every month. In an ongoing attempt to make the content presented useful to our members we start each meeting with a short Q&A session/Discussion. Unless noted in the meeting notes the schedule for each meeting will be: Agenda: * 6:00pm - Pizza & Networking * 6:30pm - Open Discussion * 6:45pm - Speaker; Amy Styers - EMC * 8:30pm - Meeting after the meeting at Foothills Our meetings are held at: Bald Eagle Technologies 201 N. Broad Street Suite 300 Winston-Salem, NC 27101; This is on the corner of 2nd and Broad Street across from a piano dealership in downtown Winston-Salem. Please park in the rear of the building, as the entrance to the office will also be in the rear. If your company is able to host the Triad SQL User Group, please contact us at: TriadSQLGroup@Gmail.com [Click here to get directions] View Larger Map

Next Meeting

Topic:	Statistics, How to prove everything but the truth.
Date:	Thursday; August 12, 2010
Speaker:	Kevin Goode - Inmar, Inc.
	“Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.” Ashley-Perry Statistical Axioms Statistics are the life blood of a cost based optimizers such as SQL Server and are a key component of performance tuning. This session will attempt to demystify statistics in regards to SQL Server the query optimizer. The internals of statistics will be examined and explained so that you will understand what statistics are available, how the optimizer uses those statistics, what causes statistics to be recomputed and when it happens. BIO Kevin and 15 years of IT experience 12 years of which has been SQL Server focused starting with version 6.5. He has worked in many industries including manufacturing, distribution and logistics, financial services, IT outsourcing and has worked for several fortune 500 companies. His specialties include SQL Server development, Performance Tuning, Business Intelligence and ETL.
Location:	Bald Eagle Tecnologies - 201 N Broad St, Winston Salem, NC 27101-2744
Overview:	The Ins and Outs of Virtualizing SQL Server 2008
Sponsors:	Please visit our sponsor: Bald Eagle Technologies