Join us for another UK SQL Server User Group meeting.
5.30pm – 6:00 Registration and networking + Tea/Coffee with biscuits.
Meet and greet.
6:00pm – 6:30pm Round Table discussion and Nuggets - ALL
Take stock and get the latest news in the SQL Server field. This is also a great opportunity to ask any burning questions you have, may be a problem at work.
It's also a great opportunity to share your knowledge and gain exposure in the industry by giving a short 1 - 6 minute "nugget" demo/tip.
6.30pm – 7:30pm
Clive Challinor, SQL Core Escalation engineer and Daniel Sol SQL Server Technical Support engineer
SQL 2008 Cluster Setup by Clive
SQL Memory Considerations by Daniel
Q & A.
7:30pm – 7:50 BREAK: Light refreshments
More time to network and ask questions...
7:50pm – 9.00pm
Building a Resilient Environment - Backups/Restore; Log Shipping and Mirroring - Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP
In this session Tony will look at the basics an environment needs in order to be able to recover from problems be they an administrator dropping tables accidentally, users deleting data, corruption etc... Applicable for SQL Express through to Enterprise we look at what is available and how to set it up and how it works; agenda: Edition Features - a talk around what's available to you, Defining the strategy, Licencing, Backup and Restore discussed - how it works, the concepts, point in time recovery, Log Shipping fundementals and Mirrorings Fundementals - the majority of the presentation will be demo's.