This Saturday I will be in Louisville, Kentucky, to present two sessions. One of the sessions is a joint session with Tim Chapman, and it is something brand-new that has never been seen before called “Choose Your Own Adventure: Performance Tuning“. And yeah, we are very excited to be building out a series of CYOA sessions. And since we can’t be everywhere all the time, Tim and I have asked for help from Jason Strate (blog | @stratesql) and Tim Ford (blog | @sqlagentman). The four of us are looking to give the CYOA series at various SQL Saturday events in 2012. But we really have no idea if it will work or not. This Saturday is v1.0, so if you attend please provide us some feedback.
The other session I have is one I have done before and received great reviews on:
Monitoring Databases in a Virtual Environment
Abstract: When moving databases to a virtual environment the performance metrics DBAs typically use to troubleshoot performance issues such as O/S metrics, storage configurations, CPU allocation and more become unreliable. DBAs no longer have a clear, reliable view of the factors impacting database performance. Understanding the difference between the physical and virtual server environment adds a new dimension to the DBA tasks. This presentation describes the changes that DBAs need to make in their performance and monitoring practices.
What this means: It means that when you go virtual you have an extra layer of abstraction to investigate as a possible root cause. Failure to do so will cause you to waste time when trying to resolve performance bottlenecks. Since I HATE wasting time I will walk you through some performance scenarios and help guide you to making better decisions about resolving possible performance issues.
Who should attend: Anyone running SQL Server on VMWare and is still using Task Manager to determine if there is a problem. On second thought, I don’t want you coming, you are probably going to be more trouble than you’re worth. I want people coming that have heard of vSphere, or vCenter, but don’t know the difference, or why they should care about them. I’ll make you care, I promise.
There you go, see you Saturday, I can’t wait to hear what I will say!
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