The Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group July Meetup

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 infrastructure

How MySpace administers many databases with only a few DBAs

[/list] This session will be valuable for SQL Developers, Data/System Architects, and anyone working with SQL Server. Christa will also cover: [list]

Scaling the Database Tier

Infrastructure Segments

Horizontal Partitioning

Challenges with Scaling

Data Location

Awareness & Resiliency

Database Ecosystem In Context

Managing Growth

[/list] Christa Stelzmuller is Chief Data Architect at MySpace headquartered out of Beverly Hills. She came to MySpace in 2006 from Yahoo! in Santa Monica, CA where she spent five years as an Engineering Manager and Data Architect for the Yahoo! Music team. She has been working on Microsoft SQL Server products since version 7.0 and has over 10 years experience in data architecture and development, focusing on very large databases with high volumes of transactions.

Need more information?[color=firebrick][/color] Email Mark Ginnebaugh at [email protected]

General Agenda
6:30 to 7:00 pm - Introductions, food, networking
7:00 to 8:30 pm - Presentation and Q&A