New time and location for December's meeting!

11:30 - 11:45 - Get food and drink
11:45 - 12:45 - Announcements & Presentation
12:45 --------- Door prizes

APR Offices
975 Johnnie Dodds Blvd.
Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

Register now for our next meeting!

Here is our regular meeting time and place:

We have meetings on the second Thursday of every month.  Our group meets at the Blackbaud on Daniel Island. Our room number may vary, so please check the visual displays when you arrive.

In an ongoing attempt to make the content presented useful to our members we start each meeting with a short Q&A session.  Unless noted in the meeting notes the schedule for each meeting will be:

6:30 - 7:30 - Announcements & Presentation
7:30 --------- Door prizes

Blackbaud 
2000 Daniel Island Dr.
Charleston, SC 29492-7541

6:00 - 6:30 - Free food and drink

Topic:	Should I Virtualize SQL Server?
Date:	Thursday, December 11, 2009
Overview:	In recent years, interest has surged in server virtualization technologies -- fueled by their potential to dramatically lower IT costs. This webcast will explore the needs of IT organizations with large SQL Server deployments and how they might benefit from a virtual infrastructure.  See how you can dramatically lower your IT costs by virtualizing your SQL Server environment. With a special focus on IT organizations with large SQL Server deployments, virtualization MVP Kevin Kline will discuss:     • Benefits of virtualization and some of the decisions you must make      •  Best practices in planning, deploying, and managing a virtual infrastructure for SQL Server 2005      • Ways to leverage storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and maximize return on investment of current infrastructure      • How SQL Server virtualization differs from multi-instancing
Speaker:	Kevin Kline Kevin Kline is the Technical Strategy Manager for SQL Server Solutions at Quest Software, a leading provider of award winning tools for database management and application monitoring. Kevin is a founding board member and former President of the international Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) and frequently contributes to database technology magazines, web sites, and discussion forums.  Kevin writes monthly columns for Database Trends & Applications magazine and SQL Server Magazine. Kevin also serves the community as an adviser to SQL Saturday education program as well as a curriculum adviser for both the University of Washington and Purdue University at Calumet in their IT and Computer Science departments. Kevin’s most popular book is SQL in a Nutshell (now in it’s third edition) published by O’Reilly Media. Kevin is also author or co-author on seven other IT books, including Transact-SQL Programming, Database Benchmarking: A Practical Approach, and Professional SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Optimization. A top rated speaker, Kevin appears at international conferences like Microsoft TechEd, DevTeach, PASS, Microsoft IT Forum, SQL Connections, and the Best Practices Conference. Beginning his career as a lowly hardware jockey working with PC’s, Digital VAX, and Intergraph Unix workstations, Kevin has worked on multiple large-scale database projects throughout his career at Deloitte & Touche, NASA and the U.S. Army. When Kevin isn’t working on technology issues, he enjoys spending time with his wife, four kids, and three stepkids.

 

Topic:	Building Data-Driven Applications that Scale -- Part 1: Architecture
Date:	Thursday, January 14, 2010
Overview:	We will discuss best practices for database design including an overview of normalization, what it is and why it’s important. We’ll also consider common mistakes and why they should be avoided. This will be a hands-on discussion, so bring your laptops. The sample data and code will be available for download prior to the presentation.
Speaker:	Boyd Evert Boyd is IT Director at A/P Recovery located in Mount Pleasant. He has designed and implemented data-driven solutions since 1995. Boyd has been working with SQL Server since the release of 2000 and has built several large data-driven solutions, some of which exceed 2 billion rows and 20TB. Boyd has worked with several Fortune 500 companies including Wal-Mart, Target Stores, and Home Depot. Boyd is the founder and president of the Charleston SQL User Group and the cofounder of the NWA SQL User Group.