SQLLunch

12:30 sharp start , downstairs bar at the Golden Fleece EC4N 1SP.

Agenda :

12:30 - 12:31 Welcome and hello

12:31 - 13:30  Remote Presentation : Tim Ford

Performance Enhancing Laziness

Walk-up work. New database requests. Users running ad-hoc queries with 18 LEFT OUTER JOINS against heaps.Surprise SQL instances created by vendors without our knowledge crashing around us!It's enough to drive a lesser DBA crazy-insane. That's why it's important to take as many steps as you can to simplify, automate, tweak, and tune the tasks you can manage so you have time to deal with those situations you can't control. In this session Tim will go over many of performance-enhancing methods he's developed over the last dozen years as a DBA for a major healthcare concern and show you how you can give yourself some breathing room to make the difficult seem easy.

Speaker bio

Tim Ford is the Lead Database Administrator and SQL Server Subject Matter Expert for Spectrum Health. Tim takes 15 students on Cruise ships and matches them up with leaders in the SQL Community for a week of training on SQL Cruise. Tim is a community speaker, volunteer, and author. His book with Louis Davidson: Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management Views is now widely available; as an avid telecommuter, he rarely wears pants.Tim Ford is the Lead Database Administrator and SQL Server Subject Matter Expert for Spectrum Health. Tim takes 15 students on Cruise ships and matches them up with leaders in the SQL Community for a week of training on SQL Cruise. Tim is a community speaker, volunteer, and author. His book with Louis Davidson: Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management Views is now widely available; as an avid telecommuter, he rarely wears pants.

http://www.thesqlagentman.com