Richmond SQL Server User Group

When: Thursday, August 5th, 2012, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM 
Social Time starts at 6:00 PM! 

Who:

Carlos Chacon is database consultant with SQL Data Partners and has experience in many different technology areas.  He  graduated from Mills Godwin High School here in Richmond and received a degree in Information Technology from Utah Valley University.  In the database world he has earned his MCSDBA and is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist.   He has been to 4 continents and hopes to check the others off his bucket list.  He is a member of the Richmond SQL Server User Group and can eat his weight in Raspberries (yet to be proved).

 

Abstract
Sizing up SQL Azure

This presentation will take us through Microsoft's cloud based offering of SQL Server now named SQL Azure.  There will be demonstrations of using the cloud based tools and how to synch databases.  We will discuss how this will impact us as database administrators and what you can do to prepare as managers hear more about this.

We will review the following items in Azure
 - What is it and how it differs from data center storage (IE Peak 10)
 - High Availability and Disaster Recovery
 - How to access via SQL Server Management studio
 - How management strategies differ in SQL Azure

 

Location: Markel Plaza

4600 Cox Road
Glen Allen, VA 2306