Webcast: Understanding the new culture of SharePoint
You have a sponsor for SharePoint development, you have a budget, now where are all the users? Online Collaboration powered by SharePoint is not only a new technology, but a new culture of doing work. In this session we’ll explore change management (the fluffy kind) strategies that can be tailored to your user base. Attract users, and keep your budget!
Presented by: Adam Levithan
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> Live date: 7/28/2010 at 12:00 Pacific
SSWUG July 30th Expo
FREE SSWUG Expo – Maximizing SQL Server Uptime – July 30th
SQL Server uptime is a key component of managing your SQL Server(s). Knowing what’s important, what options you have for building out solutions to help when things go wrong, is at the core of the responsibilities for those working with databases. This expo will feature information moving to SQL Server 2008 to get you started. You’ll learn about new features and important things that you’ll want to know about as you work with SQL Server 2008. We’ll also have segments on Transactional Replication for High Availability, Database Mirroring and even log shipping basics. Join us to learn about the key elements to making sure your systems are able to provide excellent uptime options for your business, clients and end-users. Sign up today. <- click to register…
Water Cool Your Server Room
I was talking with a colleague last weekend. He was off work for two days because his server room was being dried out; literally.
They were having repairs done on the roof of their building. A water pipe broke and the water sprayed all over in the room below. You guessed it, the server room. Every server, switch, the SAN, you name it was soaked in water. They fixed the leak, fixed the roof and waited 2 days for everything to dry out. Then they brought everything back Online with no problems.
When he told me the story I said, "Wow, you guys didn’t lose anything?" His reply took me off guard. They lost a great deal, the cost of which is still being calculated, simply because all of their systems were offline for two days. Everyone was reduced to their individual workstation. Printing was often impossible because the switches were turned off. Developers were unable to access version control. Sales couldn’t get to their Email. There was no Internet access. Their web sites were completely offline.
I’m sharing this because I found it interesting. The fact that your server can take a bath and still work amazes me. At the same time, I think the scenario demonstrates that its very difficult to prepare for all catastrophes. This company was well financed and still brought to it’s knees.
You don’t always have problems at this scale…sometimes the issues may be at the server level. Perhaps now is a good time to schedule in your calendar to attend the SSWUG July 30th Expo on Maximizing SQL Server Uptime. Who knows when someone will pour a bucket of water on your production database server?
Got a disaster that you’d like to share with our SSWUG readers? Send it to me at btaylor@sswug.org.
Cheers,
Ben
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Next Generation Data Warehousing in SQL Server 2008 (Part 1 of 2)
In this session we will cover next generation warehousing in SQL Server 2008. We will cover what things are new. We will talk about what we did with data compressions and back up compressions. We will also talk a little about partition table parallelism, bettering star join queries, and star queries in the real world.