Database Benchmarks
Silicon Valley May 2009

Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group
Tonight’s Agenda May 19, 2009
 6:30 – 7:00 pm Food and networking
 7:00 – 7:05 pm Introductions
 7:05 – 8:35 pm Phil Hummel, Microsoft
 8:35 – 9:00 pm Door prize + Q&A
Mark
User Group Leader: Mark Ginnebaugh
Ginnebaugh

Parent Organizations
 Bay Area Association of Database Developers
 BAADD www.baadd.org
 Professional Association of SQL Server
 PASS www.sqlpass.org
Join PASS for
free!

Sponsors
 Microsoft
 Quest Software
 Idera
 VMWare
 DesignMind

Upcoming Meeting
 San Francisco Bay Area Microsoft BI User
Group
 Thursday,May 21
 835 Market Street, Suite 700, San Francisco
 Donald Farmer (of the SSAS team)
 Gemini/SQL 2008 R2 BI For more info:
Garth Honhart
garth.honhart@511th.com
 Dan Bulos of Symmetry (408) 529-9958
 Best practices in cube design

BAADD Upcoming Meetings
 Visual FoxPro User Group
 Milpitas (May 21)
 NET User Group
 San Francisco (May 27)
 Special
event: Microsoft Live Messenger
Hackathon
 SQL Server User Groups
 SanFrancisco (June 10)
 Mountain View (June 16)

Silicon Valley – Summer 2009
 June 16
 Christa Stelzmuller MySpace
 The MySpace Data Architecture: Scaling for Stable
and Rapid Growth
 July 21
 Peter Myers Solid Quality Mentors
 Taking your Application Design to the Next Level
with Data Mining
 August 18
 Elizabeth Diamond, DesignMind
 Architecting a Data Warehouse: A Case Study

Other Announcements
 Looking to grow our group
 Brochures – please share
 Tell friends/colleagues to join our LinkedIn group
 SQL Server 2008 Migration Workshop
 Held on April 29 – see my blog for details
(ginneblog.com)
 55 attendees
 Slides available on SlideShare.net/markginnebaugh
 Planning another workshop in Silicon Valley in July
(focused on High Availability)

LinkedIn Group
 Name: Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group
 Currently 100 members
 Purpose:
 Networking
 Meeting announcements /availability of slide decks
 Get involved by adding to the Discussion
 Post interesting articles/news
 Put out feelers if you’re looking for work
 Announce your new job or a completed project
 Pose a technical question to the group

Tonight’s Speaker
 Phil Hummel
 Technology Architectat Microsoft
 Works with Microsoft customers and partners on
the SQL Server product line
 Performance Benchmarks: Why You Should
Care
 What benchmarks reveal
 How to interpret benchmark results
 Demo of a working benchmark test

Performance Benchmarks
 What’s Happening
 Hardware trends
 Performance best practices
 System base lining

Performance Benchmarks
 History
 Modern benchmarks
 Results
 Tools
 Applications

Thanks for joining us tonight
SQL Server User
Group
www.bayareasql.org