Please register here.
 
If you read the last email you might have notice I had the date for this meeting a month off. Sorry about that.

6:00 – 6:30 Pizza and Networking sponsored by MDI Group
6:30 – 6:40 Announcements
6:40 – 7:50 Ram Garipall :SQL Server Replication
7:50 – 8:15 Russ Jester: The new SSIG web site and NHibernate
8:15 – 8:30 Closing remarks and give-a-ways
 
Ram Garipall: SQL Server Replication
SQL Server Replication is a set of technologies for copying and distributing data and database objects from one database to another and then synchronizing between databases to maintain consistency. Using SQL Server replication data can be distributed over local and wide area networks, dial-up connections, wireless connections, and the Internet to different locations and remote or mobile users.
 
The presentation will have few slides and a demo of replication setup between a Server with enterprise edition and a client with SQL Express.
 
Ram Garipalli is a certified Oracle and SQL Server DBA working for TiBA solutions as Senior Database Administrator and Data Analyst. He is working with SQL server for more than 10 years and has experience with Reporting services, Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Replication.
 
Russ Jester:  The making of the new SSIG web site.
Russ will introduce us to our new web site, describe the technologies used and then elaborate on it use of  NHibernate.

 Please register here. 

 6:00 – 6:30 Pizza and Networking Sponsored by FGP

6:30 – 6:40 Announcements

6:40 – 7:00 Ken McClaren :  SQL Server 2008 Activity monitor

7:00 – 8:15 Paul S. Waters: Policy-Based Management

8:15 – 8:30 Closing remarks and give-a-ways

Paul S. Waters: Policy-Based Management

This presentation has a few slides and lots of demos.  We will be covering some of the most useful new features in SQL Server 2008; Policy-Based and multi-server management.  We will cover how to set up policy-based management, and a few use cases.  There are even some nice use cases for application developers.  Much of what will be presented can also be used against SQL Server 2000 and 2005 databases.

 In our last meeting with K. Brian Kelley he mentioned this as being a great new tool to help secure and understand your environment, so I thought this would be a great way to keep the momentum he got going in February going in March.

 Here are the slides and scripts from our meeting with K. Brian Kelley.  For anyone that uses Twitter his id is @kbriankelley.

PowerPoint 97-2003 format

PowerPoint 2007 format

SQL Scripts

Brian, thank you again for comeing up to Greenville to present to our group.  It was an excellent presentation.

Ken, much thanks to you as well.  Your presentaion was not only informative, but also an excellent excample of the 10-20min time slot.

Jason Hall from SQLSentry gave an excellent presentation in the new Resource Governor in SQL Server 2008.

Here in the presentation.

Thank you Jason and Peter.

Please register at http://ssig080902.eventbrite.com/

Agenda
6:00 – 6:30 Pizza and Networking
6:00 – 6:45 Announcements
6:45 – 8:15 , SQL Saturday, Dynamic Data, New T-SQL in SQL 2008
8:15 – 8:30 Closing remarks and give-a-ways
 
SQL Saturday
Saturday October 11th at ECPI we will be having a SQL Saturday. The event is free to all attendees and is organized and implemented by volunteers. Some of the volunteer positions take a good deal of time and effort, but most do not. A list of volunteer positions will be reviewed and anyone that will like to participate is welcome to volunteer.
We will have a discussion about to topics already being presented and taking suggestion for other topics.

Dynamic Data
A very high level, but practical use of the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data features in .net 3.5 SP1.

New T-SQL in SQL Server 2008

A few of the new T-SQL enhancements are quite useful and long over due. We will look at a few of these and discus there uses.