Database Benchmarking is the topic at the Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group on May 19, 2009. Phil Hummel, Microsoft Technology Architect, is the speaker.

1. Database Benchmarks
Silicon Valley May 2009

2. Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group
Tonight’s Agenda May 19, 2009
 6:30 – 7:00 pm Food and networking
 7:00 – 7:05 pm Introductions
 7:05 – 8:35 pm Phil Hummel, Microsoft
 8:35 – 9:00 pm Door prize + Q&A
Mark
User Group Leader: Mark Ginnebaugh
Ginnebaugh

3. Parent Organizations
 Bay Area Association of Database Developers
 BAADD www.baadd.org
 Professional Association of SQL Server
 PASS www.sqlpass.org
Join PASS for
free!

4. Sponsors
 Microsoft
 Quest Software
 Idera
 VMWare
 DesignMind

5. Upcoming Meeting
 San Francisco Bay Area Microsoft BI User
Group
 Thursday,May 21
 835 Market Street, Suite 700, San Francisco
 Donald Farmer (of the SSAS team)
 Gemini/SQL 2008 R2 BI For more info:
Garth Honhart
garth.honhart@511th.com
 Dan Bulos of Symmetry (408) 529-9958
 Best practices in cube design

6. BAADD Upcoming Meetings
 Visual FoxPro User Group
 Milpitas (May 21)
 NET User Group
 San Francisco (May 27)
 Special
event: Microsoft Live Messenger
Hackathon
 SQL Server User Groups
 SanFrancisco (June 10)
 Mountain View (June 16)

7. Silicon Valley – Summer 2009
 June 16
 Christa Stelzmuller MySpace
 The MySpace Data Architecture: Scaling for Stable
and Rapid Growth
 July 21
 Peter Myers Solid Quality Mentors
 Taking your Application Design to the Next Level
with Data Mining
 August 18
 Elizabeth Diamond, DesignMind
 Architecting a Data Warehouse: A Case Study

8. Other Announcements
 Looking to grow our group
 Brochures – please share
 Tell friends/colleagues to join our LinkedIn group
 SQL Server 2008 Migration Workshop
 Held on April 29 – see my blog for details
(ginneblog.com)
 55 attendees
 Slides available on SlideShare.net/markginnebaugh
 Planning another workshop in Silicon Valley in July
(focused on High Availability)

9. LinkedIn Group
 Name: Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group
 Currently 100 members
 Purpose:
 Networking
 Meeting announcements /availability of slide decks
 Get involved by adding to the Discussion
 Post interesting articles/news
 Put out feelers if you’re looking for work
 Announce your new job or a completed project
 Pose a technical question to the group

10. Tonight’s Speaker
 Phil Hummel
 Technology Architectat Microsoft
 Works with Microsoft customers and partners on
the SQL Server product line
 Performance Benchmarks: Why You Should
Care
 What benchmarks reveal
 How to interpret benchmark results
 Demo of a working benchmark test

11. Performance Benchmarks
 What’s Happening
 Hardware trends
 Performance best practices
 System base lining

12. Performance Benchmarks
 History
 Modern benchmarks
 Results
 Tools
 Applications

13. Thanks for joining us tonight
SQL Server User
Group
www.bayareasql.org