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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:	Day to Day Maintenance in a 24x7 SaaS SQL Server Shop
Date:	Thursday, August 11, 2011
Speakers:	Drew Flint
Location:	Microsoft Heartland District Offices, 1000 Town Center, Southfield, MI
Overview:	SEMSSUG is back for August with Drew Flint discussing how his company takes care of day to day maintenance operations in their 24x7 SaaS SQL Server Shop. Door prizes will include a Nook Color,and a Monochrome Nook from our sponsor Plex Systems, and several ebook certificates from O'Reilly, but these prizes will be available only for those who register using EventBrite and give us permission to share their e-mail address.  This month food and door prizes are being generously provided by Plex Systems.  For those who don't know Drew, here's a little background: For the last 12 years Drew Flint has been working with SQL Server as a server side DBA. He started with SQL Server 7 in 1999 and has been a central figure in migrations to SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008. He has had the privilege of participating in the evolution of our database maintenance procedures and techniques.   Register for this meeting at semssug20110811.eventbrite.com   LIVEMMETING LINK: Join the meeting Audio Information Telephone conferencing Use the information below to connect: Toll-free: +1 (888) 320-3585 Toll: +1 (425) 706-3500 Participant code: 41193451

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