Here is a list of upcoming webcast presented by various PASS Virtual Chapters that are always free. Some are recorded to view later.
Database Administration VC
Date: July 9
Noon Mountain – http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=PASS+DBA+Virtual+Chapter&iso=20140709T12&p1=75
Topic: How to be a great DBA– sponsored by Dell Software
Registration: You must register if you want to attend. You can register at
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5111261580659448577
When you register, you will receive a link to the meeting. All registrants will be included in a drawing for a $50 Amazon gift card.
Abstract: This presentation describes the tasks a DBA needs to perform to do a great job. Formal training classes and certifications only take you so far; this session talks from experience about everything from preventive maintenance to planning to scaling to communication. Great for beginner to intermediate DBAs, as well as Developers who think this is a direction in which they might want to move.
Bio: Jeff Garbus is a well-known author, lecturer and consultant with more than 20 years of expertise in architecture, tuning and the administration of Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase ASE, Oracle, and other databases. Jeff has assisted clients of all sizes, from .com startups to the most demanding F100 clients. His specialty has always been maximizing database performance for his clients. Jeff has recently released his 16th book: Microsoft Transact SQL – The Definitive Guide. Jeff is also the founder and CEO of Soaring Eagle Consulting, a consulting and management consulting firm specializing in all aspects of database and information management. http://mssqlperformance.blogspot.com/
DBA Fundamental VC
WHAT Rolling Upgrades, The Easy Way!
WHEN: Tuesday, August 5, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT
WHO: Argenis Fernandez
WHERE: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/998862692698291202
In this session we will discuss how to perform upgrades while maintaining high availability of your SQL server infrastructure by leveraging rolling upgrades. We will review how to use database mirroring or AlwaysOn Availability Groups for this, along with a simpler version using Log Shipping. This is a demo-intensive session that you won't want to miss.
There will be a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card at the end of the meeting. A winner will be randomly chosen from all those in attendance for the whole webcast who provide their email address.
Data Architecture VC
Grant Fritchey – Microsoft MVP
July 23, 2014 Noon CST
How to Build a Database Deployment Pipeline.
The pace of business accelerates fairly continuously and application development moves right with it. But we’re still trying to deploy databases the same way we did 10 years ago. This session addresses the need for changes in organizational structure, process and technology necessary to arrive at a nimble, fast, automatable and continuous database deployment process. We’ll use actual customer case studies to illustrate both the common methods and the unique context that led to a continuous delivery process that is best described as a pipeline. You will learn how to customize common practices and tool sets to build a database deployment pipeline unique to your environment in order to speed your own database delivery while still protecting your organization’s most valuable asset, its data.
Speaker Bio:
Grant Fritchey, SQL Server MVP, works for Red Gate Software as Product Evangelist. In his time as a DBA and developer, he has worked at three failed dot–coms, a major consulting company, a global bank and an international insurance & engineering company. Grant volunteers for the Professional Association of SQL Server Users (PASS). He is the author of the books SQL Server Execution Plans (Simple-Talk
Webinar https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3676956357735772161
Virtualization VC
Wed, Jul 09 2014 10:00 Mountain Daylight Time
SQL Server Virtualization 301
RSVP: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6360531090119570945
SQL SERVER VIRTUALIZATION 301
Can you objectively demonstrate that your SQL Servers are running the same or better after they were virtualized than when they were physical servers? Do you have your key system monitoring in place so you know your steady-state system performance metrics? What is your methodology and key items for benchmarking and baselines, and what are your long-term projections for when you will need more infrastructure capacity? Performance and capacity management topics are discussed in this interactive session, and key tips and tricks will be presented to help you squeeze the most performance from your virtualized SQL Servers.
David Klee, VMware vExpert, is a SQL Server performance and virtualization expert. With over seventeen years of IT experience, David spends his days handling performance and HA/DR architecture of physical and virtualized critical SQL Servers as the Founder of Heraflux Technologies. His areas of expertise are virtualization and performance, datacenter architecture, and risk mitigation through high availability and disaster recovery. When he is not geeking out on database and infrastructure techno.
