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Welcome

Happy 2009!  The SQL Server Users Group is back in full stride

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Next Meeting

Our next Nashville SQL Server Users Group meeting is this Friday (the last Friday of the month) June 26th at Nova Copy, 15 Lindsley Ave. Nashville 37210. Directions to Nova Copy here. Please RSVP if you are coming.

Add this event to your Outlook Calendar.

Food will arrive at 11:30 and our speaker will go from 12:00 to 1:00.

The speaker for our meeting will be: Kevin Kline, Technical Strategy Manager for SQL Server Solutions at Quest Software.

Topic: SQL Statement Tuning with Query Optimizer Strategies

Abstract: The SQL Server query optimizer is the single most important technology within the query processing engine. It decides exactly how any given SQL statement is executed. If you want to write fast SQL statements with the least amount of contention on other sessions, you need to have a good understanding of how the query optimizer works. This session teaches you how the query engine works using a broad variety of examples that are examined in great detail.

Kevin Kline is the Technical Strategy Manager for SQL Server Solutions at Quest Software. A Microsoft SQL Server MVP since 2004, Kevin is a founding board member and past president of the international Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS). He has written or co-written several books including SQL in a Nutshell (O’Reilly & Associates), Pro SQL Server 2005 Database Design and Optimization (APress) and Database Benchmarking: Practical Methods for Oracle & SQL Server (Rampant). Kevin contributes to SQL Server Magazine and Database Trends & Applications and blogs at SQLBlog.com and SQLMag.com. Kevin is a top rated speaker at conferences worldwide such as Microsoft TechEd, the PASS Community Summit, Microsoft IT Forum, DevTeach, and SQL Connections, and has been active in the IT industry since 1986.

Give Aways: We are also giving away another copy of MSDN Premium Edition, several T-SQL books and some T-Shirts at the end of the meeting.

As usual, food and drinks will be provided free of charge. As a courtesy, please RSVP to me, shelton@dicksonresources.com. Please send me each person's name and company so we can account for pizza and name tags.

If you have jobs to be posted send them to roberto@rhlopez.com and we will add them to our site. We also have a discussion group forum on LinkedIn, where you can post jobs and other topics related to SQL Server.

FYI, mark your calendars, we now meet the last Friday of the month for a luncheon.

Thanks and we look forward to seeing you at the next meeting!

-Shelton Dickson, Director of Membership, NSSUG http://nashville.sqlpass.org

Dickson Resources
shelton@dicksonresources.com
615.269.6030 (office)

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