Welcome

Welcome to Iowa SQL Server Users Group

Iowa SQL Server Users Group meets the second Wednesday of every other month.  Meetings are usually held from 3:00 to 5:00 pm but check back here for any changes to the regular schedule.

Learn tips and tricks from the professionals.  No sales pitch, just a bunch of techies getting together to learn something new.
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Upcoming PASS Events

PASS Summit 2013 - October 15-18, 2013, Charlotte, NC - PASS Summit is the world's largest and most intensive technical training conference for Microsoft SQL Server and BI professionals. But more than that, it’s your conference – planned and presented by the SQL Server community for the SQL Server community.

Join us in Charlotte and get the top-notch training, technical tips and tricks, and networking and connections you need to take your SQL Server skills to the next level.  Use discount code SUM387CH to save $150 off the registration rate.
 Next Meeting

Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Session #1:

Open Forum
Need help with a SQL problem or issue?  Did you discover something cool?  Bring it up to the group for discussion.
Session #2:

SQL 2012 High Availability:  Mission Critical Confidence – (AlwaysOn) and Availability Groups

AlwaysOn is SQL Server 2012’s High Availability solution.  It provides a new standard for mission critical databases and end-to-end business intelligence at a lower total cost of ownership.  It provides the required 9S of availability without the total cost and complexity.

In this session, we’ll specifically explore high availability databases – Availability Groups.  AG is a new feature that enhances and combines database mirroring and log shipping.  We’ll demonstrate the setup and failover of multiple databases simultaneously.

Mark Skiles is a (BI) Solutions Architect with GNet Group based in Minneapolis, MN.  He and his wife live in Carlisle, IA.  He is an international consultant and has worked for EDS in Taiwan and traveled extensively in China and Southeast Asia.  He has over 23 years of technology experience and has worked with SQL server since 1995.  His areas of interest are designing and integrating large scale databases and continual improvement in the presentation of data – ways to turn data into information and “data to decisions”. 

 

EFCO
1800 NE Broadway Ave
Des Moines, IA  50313

Parking Information
Sponsor:

Sogeti
Registration: http://iassugmay2013.eventbrite.com/

 Future Meetings

Be on the lookout for our next meeting to be held July 10th, 2013.

We'll update here when we know more about the next speaker.

 
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