On Tuesday August 19, 2008, we met at NovaCopy in downtown nashville.  Our speaker was John Rives of Amniox with a topic of "Clustered Virtualization of SQL Server".

John did a great job keeping the topics agnostic to the technology, and gave a solid rundown on many of the issues and concerns with running SQL Server (and any database system in a virtualized environment. He covered everything from current technology and some foresight into the future.

We had a good crowd again, with over 45 people in attendance:

Outside of the building, many folks took advantage of the Microsoft Across America Truck:

Next month, Louis Davidson (who is also writing this post) will be speaking on September 26, 2008 at 11:30 at the Microsoft office in Franklin, TN.  This will be an interactive session Database Design (and giving away swag for his new book release.) Come prepared to speak up as the session will be very interactive.

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