Adelaide SQL Server Users Group

Adelaide SQL Server User Group

		Welcome
Welcome to the Adelaide SQLPASS chapter. You can find us on the 3rd Wednesday of the month, at the Edge Building on Hindley St. There's a link below to get on the mailing list. We use EventBrite for meeting registrations - please look at adssug.eventbrite.com for a list of our meetings. Previously, we used sqlserver.org.au, and you can see an archive of events on that site - but the Adelaide mailing list from there hasn't been used for some time. --Rob Get on our mailing list by clicking here!

		Our next event
Our next meeting will be on the third Wednesday of the month. We use EventBrite for registrations, so please register at http://adssug201301.eventbrite.com. Our next meeting is: Wed, Jan 16 2013 12:00 to 14:00 in Adelaide. The importance of baselines When you experience a performance problem, how can you easily tell where the problem is without being able to compare against a known-good set of measurements? In this session, Erin Stellato will demonstrate the need for baselines, and show how to create a performance baseline for a SQL Server instance, using tools such as Performance Monitor, DMVs, SQL Trace and Extended Events. Using benchmarking techniques she will explain and demonstrate how to solve a problem based on comparisons to baselines. Speaker: Erin Stellato Erin Stellato is a senior consultant with SQLskills and lives in Cleveland, OH. She has over 12 years of technology experience and has worked with SQL Server since 2003. Her areas of interest include internals, performance tuning, and high availability and disaster recovery. Erin is a SQL Server MVP and an active member of the SQL Server community. She is involved with the Ohio North SQL Server User Group and blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/erin. You can find her on Twitter at @ErinStellato. Download material about this presentation: Baselines_Adelaide.zip

		Announcements
There is always stuff going on in the PASS community. For more information about these events, please contact the group leader, Rob Farley (try emailing through lobsterpot.com.au).

The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) is an independent, not-for-profit association, dedicated to supporting, educating, and promoting the Microsoft SQL Server community. From local user groups and special interest groups (SIGs) to webcasts and the annual PASS Community Summit � the largest gathering of SQL Server professionals in the world � PASS enables knowledge sharing, in-depth learning, access to the Microsoft SQL Server team, and the ability to influence the direction of SQL Server technologies. PASS was founded in 1999 by Microsoft and CA and continues to enjoy executive level endorsement from both organizations. As the number one user community for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft looks to the PASS community for valued feedback, input, and inspiration. PASS Mission Empower the global Microsoft SQL Server community to connect, share, learn and be inspired through networking, knowledge sharing, peer-based learning, and the ability to influence the direction of Microsoft SQL Server products and services.

		Sponsors
PASS provides the Adelaide SQL Server User Group with this website and other miscellaneous resources. The Adelaide SQL Server User Group is an official PASS Chapter. Microsoft has traditionally provided the Adelaide SQL Server User Group with a venue in which to meet, but now just creates SQL Server, which we love to use. LobsterPot Solutions provides the Adelaide SQL Server User Group with the services of Rob Farley and others, and all the necessary administration services to run the group. Chamonix IT Consulting provides the Adelaide SQL Server User Group with funding for catering. Red Gate provide swag! If you come along to one of our meetings, we might be giving away stuff from Red Gate.