September User Group Meeting Speaker profile: Prakash S Sawant, Microsoft Technology Solution Specialist with ten years of experience in providing database solutions; Prakash is a subject matter expert in SQL Server Migration/ Upgrade and Performance Tuning. Prakash is also an active member for the development of content and methodology for the SQL Server 2008 R2 Upgrade and Application Compatibility Testing program. He has worked with more then 100+ Lab participants across India, USA, APAC and Middle East to assess Upgrade readiness and provide guidance on Upgrades from SQL Server 2000/2005 to SQL Server 2008. He has also created and delivered trainings for Microsoft’s SQL Server support engineers from various verticals. With his global Consulting experience Prakash has earned recognition as an expert in the following SQL Server-related topics:

  • Scalability, Availability and Performance Assessments
  • Planning and implementing large scale migrations from Oracle to SQL Server
  • Developing long-term SQL Server strategies to improve ROI and reduce TCO
  • Assessing, creating and optimizing SQL Server data warehouses
  • Strategizing and Upgrading to SQL Server 2008
Topic:

SQL Server Denali AlwaysOn

SQL Server denali offers a huge leap forward in terms of high availability. This sessions is an Introduction to the high availability changes in Denali and a demonstration of the key features and benefits.

We will be demoing the capabilties of the new “AlwaysOn” features such as read only secondaries and consistancy groups.

This session will be useful for anyone who is working in a high availability environment or currently using replication to provide reporting and looking for a neater solution. During the demonstratiion we will show how to seamlessly upgrade database from SQL 2005+ to Denali with ZERO down time and then use the Alwayson features to simplify reporting, availability and disaster recovery. Date: Sept 29th, 2011 Time: 7:00PM – 9:00 PM Registration starts at 6:30 PM Venue: NTUC Building Microsoft Office One Marina Boulevard Our sql user group website: http://sgsql.org Please confirm your attendance by sending email to SGSQL@LIVE.COM We welcome for any feedback to improve interaction and activity in our user group. We are looking for a brave speaker to! If you have anything to share, something interesting from your daily jobs, please share and present for us. Send your thought to SGSQL@LIVE.COM. If you have changed to another role or not around in Singapore anymore and want to be removed from our list, please email us at SGSQL@LIVE.COM.