Webcast

Replay URL for my GeekSpeak Session

For those who were unable to attend my Geekspeak session last week the session was recorded and that recording has been posted.

geekSpeak: Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008 with Denny Cherry

On 6/4/08 at noon PST (3pm EST) I’ll be presenting a MSDN Geek Speak session entitled “Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008 with Denny Cherry”. In the session we will explore the new support for spatial data in Microsoft SQL Server 2008. I will also be talking about managing huge SQL Server databases, and answer your questions about SQL Server. The Microsoft hosts will be Mike Benkovich and Mithun Dhar.

It’s a very free form session where we rely on Audience Q&A to really drive the direction of the session.

Here is the URL to register for the session.  Just click the URL and register, you’ll get an email reminder, etc from the Microsoft Events system.

I hope everyone can attend.  I hope to make my first geekSpeak a huge success.

Denny

EMC World 2008 Day 1 (Keynotes)

Here are some of the key points from the keynotes from EMC world.

Gartner says that by 2011 there will be 1337 Exabytes.

 179 Exabytes of information has been created so far this year.

In the next two years we will see a trend moving further away from using Tape for backup and recovery.  It will still be used for long term archiving, but day to day restores will come from disk.

During the raw data into useful information is becoming more and more of a challenge for IT departments and business units. 

What I’m gathering from the keynotes is that the amount of data is exploding.  I see this as a great thing for us DBAs as, the bulk of data that companies have is going to be stored within the database.  I know that the company which I work for (Awareness Technologies) creates about 110 Gigs of information per day.  Now with our products policy we keep this data for 14 days (unless the customer pays us to keep the data longer).  This means that we have about 1.5 Terabytes of information within our data center that our customers are looking at on a daily basis.  This much data, with such a high data change rate is just a crazy amount of data change.

Sites with high data change rates have specific challenges some of which I will be talking about (specifically how they relate to Microsoft SQL Server) on 6/11/2008 at 12:00 PM PST when I present a geekspeak session “geekSpeak: Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008 with Denny Cherry”.  I’ll post the link to this webcast when I get it.

Since my laptop battery is dieing I’ll have to wrap this up for now.  Check back later for more.

Denny

Webcast Recover the data, the whole data and nothing but the data you need available for viewing

The webcast which I did with Quest Software a couple of weeks ago “Recover the data, the whole data and nothing but the data you need” has had the recording posted for viewing on the Quest website.  If you missed the webcast live now is your chance to view it.

 Denny

Webcast: Recover the Data, the Whole Data and Nothing but the Data You Need

Coming on the heals of the extremely successful webcast “Under The Hood of SQL Server - Checking Out Internals”, Quest Software has asked me to co-present another webcast.  This one is entitled “Recover the Data, the Whole Data and Nothing but the Data You Need” and will be on March 6, 2008 at 8am Pacific (11am Eastern).  I’ve been told that so far the sign up rate has been incredible so far.

If you are interested in the product or doing object level restores (restoring one table or stored procedure, etc instead of restoring the entire database) then I highly recommend the webcast; granted I am a little biased.

See you at the webcast.

Denny

Webcast recording available online

The recorded webcast which I did a couple of weeks ago now is available for viewing on Quest Software’s Web Page.  The slide deck is also available for downloading.

 The URL is http://www.quest.com/events/listdetails.aspx?contentid=6907&searchoff=true&technology=&prod=24&prodfamily=&loc=

The original webcast was on Feb 7, 2008.  More info can be found here.

Thanks,

Denny

Webcast turnout was fantastic

Thanks to all who attended this morning webcast ‘Under The Hood of SQL Server - Checking Out Internals’.  This mornings webcast was a complete success.  The number of people attending was fantastic, and some excellent questions were asked.  If I remember correctly there were about 140 people in attendance.  For those who weren’t able to attend the webcast this morning, it was recorded and as soon as it’s published I’ll post the link to the video.

If you have a question specific to the webcast please email my good friend Andy Grant with your questions and he will route them to myself or Jason Hall.

Don’t forget to check out the tech brief which we were talking about.

Denny

Webcast: ‘Under The Hood of SQL Server - Checking Out Internals’

On Thursday Feb 7, 2008 at 8am Pacific (11am Eastern, 4pm GMT) myself and Jason Hall, Systems Consultant at Quest Software will be co-hosting a webcast looking into the challenges in seeing exactly what is happening within SQL Server (including SQL Server 2008) using Spotlight® on SQL Server Enterprise compared to the native tools.

 For those who are interested in attending the URL is: http://www.quest.com/events/listdetails.aspx?contentid=6732&technology=&prod=&prodfamily=&loc=4

FIRST TIME USERS: To save time before the meeting, check your system to make sure it is compatible with Microsoft Office Live Meeting: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52354

I look forward to seeing you all there.

Denny