Aspiring Geek Speaks This Week: PASS Minnesota
Greetings, my current colleague & former MVP Lara Rubbelke (blog | twitter) was gracious enough to invite me to speak this week at PASS Minnesota aka PASS MN.
I’ll be reprising my spiel on Disk Partition Alignment, the Best Kept Secret in SQL Server I/O Performance.
For more details, see PASS MN’s September Meeting or see MVP Jason Strate’s post (blog | twitter) .
The meeting will be at the Minneapolis Microsoft office. I’ll be followed by Janis Griffin who’ll be presenting on Wait-Time Based Performance Management.
Here’s additional info:
September 15, 2009
2:30 PM Networking & Social
3:00 PM Announcements
3:15 PM - 5:15 PM Presentations
8300 Norman Center Drive
9th Floor
Bloomington, MN 55437
Thanks much to my team, Microsoft IT’s Assessment Consulting & Engineering (A.C.E.) Services for subsidizing the trip. A.C.E. is the place! (site | blog)
Jimmy May, MCM, MCDBA, MCSE, MCITP: DBA + DB Dev
Principal Performance Engineer: SQL Server
A.C.E.: Assessment Consulting & Engineering Services
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http://blogs.msdn.com/jimmymay
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Don’t practice in front of the CIO. A professional prepares ahead of time.
—Pond's 12th Law
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About Jimmy May
Jimmy May is a Principal Engineer for SQL Server in the Microsoft Assessment. Consulting, & Engineering (A.C.E.) team & is assigned to Team Lee. He is the Visionary-in-Chief of SQL Server Pros & was formerly the Senior Database Architect for one of the world’s largest, SQL Server high-throughput OLTP VLDBs. He is a founder & on the executive committees of both the Indiana Windows User Group (www.iwug.net) & Indianapolis Professional Association for SQL Server (www.indypass.org). He is a recipient of the MS IT Gold Star award, is collaborating with the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team (SQL CAT) on a series of SQL best practices papers, & is a membe of the Microsoft Oracle Center of Excellence. Jimmy lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with his lovely new bride, Phyllis, & Fannie May the Wonder Dog. Contact him at jimmymay@microsoft.com. Visit his SQL Server performance & personal productivity blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/jimmymay.
“In the late 90’s I made a conscious decision to become a geek, & started working with SQL Server in 1999. Since then it’s been quite a ride—going from the Help Desk to DBA to Architect to entrepreneur to Microsoft Principal Engineer & consultant.”
