Charlotte SQL Server User Group http://charlotte-sql.org Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:54:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Jul 18 http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/jul-18/ http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/jul-18/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:26:57 +0000 Shannon Lowder http://charlotte-sql.org/?p=255 http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/jul-18/feed/ 0 June 27 http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/june-27/ http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/june-27/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:26:50 +0000 Shannon Lowder http://charlotte-sql.org/?p=253 http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/june-27/feed/ 0 May 16 http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/may-16/ http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/may-16/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:26:42 +0000 Shannon Lowder http://charlotte-sql.org/?p=251 http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/may-16/feed/ 0 April 19 http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/april-19/ http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/april-19/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:26:34 +0000 Shannon Lowder http://charlotte-sql.org/?p=249 http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/april-19/feed/ 0 March 21 http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/march-21/ http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/march-21/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:26:24 +0000 Shannon Lowder http://charlotte-sql.org/?p=247 http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/march-21/feed/ 0 Feb 15 – High Availability features in SQL 2012 http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/feb-15-high-availability-features-in-sql-2012/ http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/feb-15-high-availability-features-in-sql-2012/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:25:29 +0000 Shannon Lowder http://charlotte-sql.org/?p=243 Continue reading →]]> We are very pleased to welcome back noted speaker Chris Skorlinski, as he shares his wealth of knowledge and experience regarding SQL Server.

High Availability features in the SQL Server 2012 by Chris Skorlinski, Microsoft Escalation Engineer

Chris Skorlinski, member of Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services team in Charlotte, NC, will present overview of new High Availability features in SQL 2012.  We’ll take a brief look at current HA options, like Clustering, Replication, Mirroring, and Log Shipping, then we’ll explore how these were all combined into new “AlwaysOn” feature for SQL 2012.

Chris Skorlinski is a SQL Server Replication Escalation Engineer at the Microsoft Charlotte office. He’s been working with SQL Server and Replication for the past 10 years. His blog postings cover using and troubleshooting all types of Replication including Merge, Transactional, and CDC can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/repltalk and http://blogs.msdn.com/chrissk

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Agenda:

5:30 PM Networking and Pizza

6:00 PM Stump the SQL Experts – open Q&A Forum with CSSUG Members

6:15 PM Main Presentation

7:30 PM Meeting End

7:45 PM Post-Meeting Social Hour – Join Us for Drinks at a venue TBA

Location:

The meeting is being held at the Microsoft Offices in AP1 – the left building as you drive onto the campus.

Sponsors:

TEKsystems® has been a loyal sponsor of the Charlotte SQL Server Users Group. TEKsystems® provides technology staffing and services, helping businesses deploy high-caliber IT and communications expertise. With roots as the nation’s largest IT staffing firm, they’ve become a billion-dollar services company by blending superior client service with an unrivaled ability to source and manage talent to precise specifications, resulting in successful technology executions. Visit www.teksystems.com for more info.

SQL Sentry, Inc., is a Charlotte based company and a long time sponsor of the Charlotte SQL Server Users Group. SQL Sentry creates software products to optimize the performance of Microsoft® SQL Server® environments. SQL Sentry software provides unprecedented visibility and control that enables database administrators to monitor their database environment with confidence, and quickly diagnose and solve complex performance problems as they arise. Visit www.sqlsentry.net for more info.

About Our Group:

Charlotte, NC has a dynamic, growing business environment filled with opportunities for SQL Server professionals. The goal of the Charlotte SQL Server User Group is to encourage and support the growth of that environment by providing a venue for user education and peer collaboration. Our group is a certified Chapter of PASS and we recommend all members join that organization.

]]> http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/02/09/feb-15-high-availability-features-in-sql-2012/feed/ 0 Jan 25 – Getting your Mind Wrapped Around SQL Azure http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/01/12/jan-25-getting-your-mind-wrapped-around-sql-azure/ http://charlotte-sql.org/2012/01/12/jan-25-getting-your-mind-wrapped-around-sql-azure/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:51:48 +0000 Shannon Lowder http://charlotte-sql.org/?p=234 Continue reading →]]> We will explore the basics of SQL Azure and then dig into the similarities and differences between SQL Azure and SQL Server. We will also discuss ways to configure SQL Server so that you can mimicking SQL Azure, thus allowing you to come closer to matching your Development and Production environments. Lastly, we will touch on how to transfer your existing troubleshooting skills from SQL Server to SQL Azure.

 

Evan spent 10 years doing R&D for a major textile manufacturer. He joined Microsoft 5 years ago and is currently a Support Escalation Engineer on the SQL Server team. He specializes in connectivity, database client code, and Reporting Services. In addition, he has been working on SQL Azure since before it was even called SQL Azure.

 

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Download the slide deck now: Getting The Most From Your SQL Server Deployments

Ben DeBow is a MDCBA, MCSE and MCTS focused on SQL Server consolidations, data architecture and performance tuning for organizations both large and small. Ben specializes in solving diverse and complex data and infrastructure challenges for large, global environments. Ben is a longtime member of the SQL community, volunteering the last 7 years as a SQLPass committee member, trainer and SQLPass presenter. Ben has led webcasts for SQLMag and has co-authored and reviewed several Microsoft whitepapers such as Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008. Besides his work as a consultant, Ben is a cyclist avid traveler and photographer. You can follow Ben on Twitter here http://twitter.com/#!/BBQSQL and learn more about his consulting company here: www.SQLHA.com

]]> http://charlotte-sql.org/2011/11/07/december-14th-getting-the-most-from-your-sql-server-deployments/feed/ 0 November 16th: Data Quality Services With Jason Howell http://charlotte-sql.org/2011/10/08/november-data-quality-services-with-jason-howell/ http://charlotte-sql.org/2011/10/08/november-data-quality-services-with-jason-howell/#comments Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:30:57 +0000 Shannon Lowder http://charlotte-sql.org/?p=192 Continue reading →]]> SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS) is a new Knowledge-Driven Data Quality feature set of the upcoming Microsoft SQL Server “Denali” release aimed at the data stewards and IT professionals who seek to improve the quality of their business data. In this session, we describe the concept and main principles behind Data Quality Services from Microsoft, and demo the main capabilities of the product, such as knowledge management, cleansing, matching and profiling.

Imagine you will be able to download, install, and use DQS and after this session. Within minutes you will be able to make simple DQS knowledgebase design choices with minimal developer investment. You will be able to pull data from SQL Server table or Excel worksheets, such as incomplete and unsure customer addresses or product values or almost any custom entity that you want. DQS have specific activities to clean and de-duplicate that data to make suggestions and corrections. DQS presents the results in an interactive and simple-to-use GUI tool to approve, reject, or amend the changes before saving them to the destination of your choosing. Cleansing tasks can be automated with the SSIS DQS Data Cleansing component as well. Most any business user will quickly see the value of DQS and walk away feeling ready to show off their new found smarts to the rest of the team.

Jason Howell is a Senior Escalation Engineer working in the Microsoft Commercial Technical Support business unit, Developer Support Database group from the Charlotte, NC office. He has 10 years of experience in a variety of SQL Server technology areas such as SQL Server Database Engine, Performance, Replication, Integration Services, Analysis Services, Master Data Services, and most recently on Data Quality Services. Jason is a North Carolina native, has a degree in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill, and debugs C++ and .Net languages daily working on the most difficult troubleshooting scenarios from Microsoft customers around the globe.

Update: Not only did Jason give us a copy of his slide deck, he provided us pictures, and direct links to DQS Content!  We’d like to thank Jason for this extra material.

Jason’s Presentation

Additional information:

The latest prerelease beta was made available publically today:

SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 trial edition (180 days free trial from date of installation) released *today* for public download. DQS is good and stable in this build, so please try it. The .iso file available for download is a DVD image that can be mounted as a drive letter, or extracted using some compression tool like Winzip. A .cab is available if you click the HTML link in the download section as well.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28145&WT.mc_id=rss_alldownloads_all

For this RC0 release, only public forum support is available, so use the forum for any questions. TAP customers (Early Adopters) can contact support via connect items as well.

Demos

These TechEd Video and demo files are similar to the ones I used if you want to play with that data.

Demo files: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dqs/archive/2011/09/05/dqs-blog-teched-demo.aspx

Video: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/DBI207

Useful DQS Links:

DQS Intro Videos (youtube style – please share with your team) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/hh323828.aspx

DQS Q&A Forum  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldataqualityservices/

DQS team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dqs/

SQL Connect (for filing bugs and Design requests directly) https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback

SQL Support (to contact Microsoft support team for opening service requests after RTM ships) http://support.microsoft.com

DQS Technet Wiki will list major known issues

DQS MSDN Documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff877925(v=sql.110).aspx  (updated today 11/17 for SQL 2012 RC0 prerelease)

DQS Azure DataMarket providers https://datamarket.azure.com/browse/Data?Category=dqs

 

]]> http://charlotte-sql.org/2011/10/08/november-data-quality-services-with-jason-howell/feed/ 4 October 26th:Managing SSIS in Denali With Brian Knight http://charlotte-sql.org/2011/10/08/october-26thmanaging-ssis-in-denali-with-brian-knight/ http://charlotte-sql.org/2011/10/08/october-26thmanaging-ssis-in-denali-with-brian-knight/#comments Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:00:38 +0000 Shannon Lowder http://charlotte-sql.org/?p=186 Continue reading →]]> Key takeaways:

  1. SSIS logging and auditing in SQL Server Denali
  2. Deploying packages in Denali
  3. Parameterization of packages

Level 200
60-75 minutes

In this session, you’ll learn how to manage SSIS in SQL Server Denali. You’ll first see how the logging and auditing of your SSIS packages has changed in Denali. Then, you’ll learn how parameterization of packages has been overhauled in Denali to make a zero-touch deployment of your packages. In this demo-packed session, you’ll walk through the entire lifecycle of a package from deployment to longer-term management of the package.

Brian Knight, SQL Server MVP, MCITP, MCSE, MCDBA, is the owner and founder of Pragmatic Works.  He is also the co-founder of SQLServerCentral.com, BIDN.com and SQLShare.com. He runs the local SQL Server users group in Jacksonville (JSSUG). Brian is a contributing columnist at several technical magazines and does regular webcasts at SQLShare.com. He is the author of a dozen SQL Server books.  Brian has spoken at conferences like PASS, SQL Connections and TechEd and many Code Camps. His blog
can be found at http://www.bidn.com.

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