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This year's event held
September 24, 2010 at the Microsoft office in
Waltham, MA was another big success. Thank you
to Ron Thibeau and John Ross of Boston User Groups,
Dan Stoltz of Microsoft and our proctor/speakers
Sunil Kadimdiwan of Infotrove and Mike Walsh of
StraightPathSQL.
You can
download the slides in a zip here or the
individual PDFs:
SQL Server Loadfest R2 Intro
SQL Server Loadfest R2 Lesson 1 - Overview "What is
SQL Server"
SQL Server Loadfest R2 Lesson 2 - Before the install
SQL Server Loadfest R2 Lesson 3 - Hands-on install
SQL Server Loadfest R2 Lesson 4 - Completing the
install
SQL Server Loadfest R2 Lesson 5 - Preparing for
Production
See the pictures on here
The sponsoring organizations
are
Boston User Groups and
New England Visual
Basic Professionals along with Microsoft and
Edgewood Solutions.
Last year's event the SQL
Server Loadfest in
March of 2009 was a big success. There were
more than 100 people in attendance and most of them
installed SQL Server 2008 on their laptop and even one
desktop.
The slides from the original 2009 Loadfest are available:
Lesson 1 - What is SQL Server
Lesson 2 - Before the Install
Lesson 3 - Installing SQL Server 2008
Lesson 4 - Completing the Install
Lesson 5 - Preparing for Production
Thanks to our speakers and
proctors for 2009: Sunil Kadimdiwan, Phil Denoncourt, Pete
Tassmer, Adam Machanic, and Igor Moochnick.
Special thanks to Ron Thibeau
for wiring all the desktops and for being one of the
driving forces behind the Loadfest. Also
thanks to Dan Stolts of Microsoft and John Ross and
the other members of the BUG Board of Directors.
During the session there was
mention of this page:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc966412.aspx
on predeployment I/O best practices. You might
want to check this out before beginning an
installation. Also, a great directory to SQL
Server Whitepapers can be found here:
http://www.sqlskills.com/whitepapers.asp
There was only one code snippet, the
Surface
Area Configuration Snippet from the Security
talk.
Please send any questions or comments to Andy Novick
anovick @ novicksoftware.com
Andrew Novick is a
developer/consultant with 25 years in the computer
industry and a focus on SQL Server and Microsoft
.Net. His practice includes designing databases,
query optimization, analysis of performance
problems, and building business applications. His
writings include the books Transact-SQL User-Defined
Functions and “SQL Server 2000 XML Distilled. You
can find additional articles on his web site:
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