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OttawaSQL.net Event: Increase Performance of your SQL Server Applications, Michelle Gutzait

November 3, 2009 by Todd Lamothe

November 12^th Evening Event:

Increase Performance of your SQL Server Applications –

Performance Tuning for Developers and DBAs, Michelle Gutzait

Speaker: Michelle Gutzait

Date: Thursday, November 12^th, 2009

Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Venue: Microsoft Ottawa Office

RSVP: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=142866

Session:

Performance degradation of an application due to database growth or coding against database performance best practices is very common. This could often result in rewriting parts of the application or partial database redesign. This session is about how to prevent performance issues as much as possible and also how to tune applications when performance degrades. One of the goals of the presentation is to give some tips around how we can be proactive by designing our database and application to be more scalable and possibly more performance. It contains information for the DBA as well as for the developer, in relation to the database and database environment.

Speaker Bio:

Michelle Gutzait is the SQL Server Team Lead for The Pythian Group, a worldwide company providing Remote Administration services for databases, operating systems, SANs and networks. Michelle has been involved in IT for 20 years as a developer, business analyst and database consultant. For the past 10 years, she has worked exclusively with SQL Server. Her skills include SQL infrastructure and database design, performance tuning, security, high availability, disaster recovery, very large databases, replication, T-SQL coding, DTS/SSIS packages, administrative and infrastructure tools development, reporting services and more. She regularly blogs at http://michelle-Gutzait.spaces.live.com

Refreshments:

Pizza and pop will be provided.

Note: No one will be admitted by building security after 5:55 PM, and the event will start promptly at 6:00 PM.

OttawaSQL.net is a community group of Ottawa area developers and IT professionals. We share an interest in Microsoft’s data technologies especially: SQL Server, SharePoint, PerformancePoint, Workflow Foundations, LINQ, ADO.NET and Entity Framework.

Windows 7 STEP Event in Ottawa

October 25, 2009 by Todd Lamothe

Thursday of last week (October 22), David Myers and myself presented the [wpseo]Windows 7[/wpseo] STEP event in Ottawa. It was a full house and one of our larger, if not largest crowd at the OWSUG to date.

As part of the presentation David covered [wpseo]Branch Cache[/wpseo], [wpseo]Direct Access[/wpseo], [wpseo]Bitlocker[/wpseo] to go among other things. I covered the deployment side of things which included[wpseo] Windows Deployment Services[/wpseo], [wpseo]Application Compatibility[/wpseo] and the [wpseo]User State Migration Tool 4.0[/wpseo]. I also helped David out with the [wpseo]Problem Step Recorder[/wpseo] by recording a problem I was having with Calculator.

If you want more information about things we presented on, check out the Springboard site at Microsoft.

Here is a shot of the crowd from the event. Brad took this from his cell phone.

The OWSUG page if the event is located at http://owsug.ca/blogs/brad/archive/2009/10/22/Today_1920_s-Windows-7-Meeting-Rocked-the-House_2100_-AND-Windows-7-Study-group-interest.aspx

IT Pro Toronto User Group

August 28, 2009 by Todd Lamothe

Toronto’s IT Pro User group meets on the first Tuesday of the month. Here is the agenda for the upcoming meeting.

SharePoint for Public Facing Websites

Start Date/Time:
September 1, 2009 6:00 PM

End Date/Time:
September 1, 2009 9:00 PM

Location:

University of Toronto
Health Sciences Building, Room 108
155 College Street,
Toronto, ON
M5T 3M7

To Register for this Event click the following Link:

Registration site: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=140614

Presentation Overview

When done wrong, SharePoint can turn your public facing sites into a performance hog, which is impossible to manage.

Here we will cover some guidelines for a successful public website based on SharePoint:

Planning your SharePoint environment for a public facing website
Branding your SharePoint website; master pages; page layouts, style sheets, XSLT, item/group styles, etc.
Writing custom code to add more functionality to your SharePoint-based site: web parts, features, etc.
Customizing built-in SharePoint search functionality on your site
Securing your SharePoint-based website (protect backend servers, configure anonymous mode, use lockdown mode, etc.)
Implementing or preserving SEO practices in SharePoint
Tuning the performance of the SharePoint-based public site (managing page load, optimizing server response time, http compression, cache profiles, blob-cache, etc.)

Presenter

Max Yermakhanov

IT Manager, ObjectSharp

http://objectsharp.com/max

Max is an IT Manager with ObjectSharp Consulting where his main goal is to help the clients and staff to get more (and better) use out Microsoft and other leading technologies.

Max has been involved with information technology professionally since 1999, i.e. “the last millennium.” He has two Master’s degrees: first one in Computer Science and the second one in Library and Information Science. He also has MCSE, MCSA, CCNA, and a few other certifications, but who is counting…

With over nine years’ experience working in public and private organizations, Max has a vast depth of knowledge in Information Technology. He is a life-long learner, bringing an uncompromising approach to client satisfaction.