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The Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group

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Past events

• Coding in a Team Environment: Best Practices and More

  Wed, 18 Nov 2009, 02:30 - 04:30 in Mountain View, United States

  Let's face it, coding in a team environment is one of the most challenging aspects of software development. We've all experienced short cuts that lead to big headaches! Join Garth Honhart on November 17th to learn about simple solutions for [b][/b]sustainable development. Who should attend? Anyone that codes T-SQL in a team environment, develops T-SQL for end users or customers. What You Will Learn: [list]*Tools that can make T-SQL code easier maintain

• Fusion-io and the Super Speedy Database

  Wed, 21 Oct 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in Mountain View, United States

  Sumeet Bansal is Fusion-io’s Principal Solutions Architect. | Fusion-io is a producer of enterprise-class SSDs (Solid State Drives, as opposed to HDDs – Hard Disk Drives). Their silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory applies flash memory to large-scale enterprise storage products like Storage Area Networks. More details about this meeting will be posted soon. In the meantime, you can read my blog post about Fusion-io. Mark

• Why SQL Server 2008 R2 Rocks

  Wed, 16 Sep 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in Mountain View, United States

  Joe Belson of Microsoft will discuss the new features of SQL Server 2008 R2More details coming soon...SQL Server 2008 R2 expands on the value delivered in SQL Server 2008 by providing a wealth of new features and capabilities. This release will further improve IT Efficiency with new and enhanced management capabilities and empower business users to access, integrate, analyze and share information using business intelligence tools they already know.

• Architecting a Data Warehouse: A Case Study

  Wed, 19 Aug 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in Mountain View, United States

  Speaker: Elizabeth Diamond of DesignMindMore information about this meeting coming soon...

• The Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group July Meetup

  Wed, 22 Jul 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in Mountain View, United States

  Speaker: Christa Stelzmuller of MySpace Get an ?inside view? of the MySpace database infrastructure from the Chief Data Architect. You'll hear about the choices made by IT management, and the reasons behind their decisions. You will learn about:[list]Common challenges faced in scaling for a distributed data environment Approaches to managing transactions across a highly distributed data infrastructureHow MySpace administers many databases with only a few DBAs[/list]

• Taking Your Application Design to the Next Level with Data Mining

  Wed, 22 Jul 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in Mountain View, United States

  Speaker: Microsoft MVP Peter Myersof Solid Quality MentorsPeter will discuss Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Data Mining and demonstrate how to develop data mining models that can be embedded into your applications. You Will Learn:[list]*The business problems solved by data mining*SQL Server’s data mining capabilities*The data mining development cycle*How to create, train, test and query mining models

• MySpace Data Architecture: Scaling for Stable and Rapid Growth

  Wed, 17 Jun 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in Mountain View, United States

  Speaker: Christa Stelzmuller of MySpace Details coming soon... Need more information?[color=firebrick][/color] Email Mark Ginnebaugh at mark@designmind.com General Agenda 6:30 to 7:00 pm - Introductions, food, networking 7:00 to 8:30 pm - Presentation and Q&A