SQL Saturday #160 Kalamazoo Michigan on September 22, 2012.

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We have meetings on the second Thursday of every month.  Our group meets at the Microsoft Heartland District Office in the Southfield Town Center.  The office is on the 19th floor of the 1000 Building, and there are signs directing you to the conference room where the meeting will be held.

In an ongoing attempt to make the content presented useful to our members we start each meeting with a short Q&A session.  Unless noted in the meeting notes the schedule for each meeting will be:

6:00 - 6:30 - General Q&A session & Announcements
6:30 - 7:30 - Presentation(s)
7:30 - ?? - Door prizes and Question & Answer session

Topic:	Don't Panic DBAs!  Databases on VMWare made Easy
Date:     Location:             Registration:	Thursday, April 12, 2012    6:00 PM to 8:00 PM    Microsoft Southfield Office 1000 Town Center Suite 1930 Southfield, MI 48075 Directions found clicking here.     Register at EventBrite - http://semssug20120412.eventbrite.com
Speakers:	Janis Griffin, Sr. DBA at Confio Software Over 20 years experience in Oracle Database Administration and Development. Additional experience as DBA for Sybase, Informix, Progres, Progress, MySql and Sql Server databases. In addition, 8 years experience as a System administrator for VMS / DOS / Unix operating systems. Also, I've have over 5 years of managing/mentoring other DBAs.
Overview:	More and more companies are virtualizing with VMWare, and databases are the next logical step. This presentation will explore the fundamentals of monitoring databases running in a VMWare environment because it can be much different than when running on a physical machine. You will learn business and technical benefits of virtualization, master new terms and concepts, pick up useful planning tips and tricks, and cover best practices for maintaining optimum performance in a VMWare environment.

I have set up an e-mail address for SEMSSUG related issues, so it doesn't  generate as much traffic to my work e-mail account.  Please send any questions, concerns, etc to Joseph.Fleming@sqlpass.org