Welcome to SQLSaturday #222

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Admittance to this event is free, but we do charge a lunch fee of 8.00 so that we can provide a lunch - not pizza! Please register soon as seating is limited, and let friends and colleagues know about the event. 

This event will be held Jul 27, 2013 at:
Patrick Hays Learning Center
2700 Gateway Oaks Drive, Suite 2600
Sacramento, CA 95833

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!  SQL Saturday #222 Sacramento ALL-DAY Precon with Kalen Delaney - Performance Tuning with Indexes: Internals and Best Practices

Sacramento SQL Server User Group will be hosting an all-day Precon on Friday July 26th with Kalen Delaney talking about Performance Tuning with Indexes!

Indexes allow SQL Server to access your data in the most efficient manner. Understanding exactly how your indexes are structured and stored internally can give you a deeper understanding of what indexes will be useful for your queries.  Knowing how indexes are useful can allow us to generalize some best practice recommendations.  In this seminar we’ll look at the following topics:

Basic Index Structures
Clustered vs nonclustered
Unique vs non-unique
Included columns
Tools for Exploring Index Structures
Index maintenance
Page splits
Fragmentation and Defragmentation
Index Design Considerations
AND’s/ OR’s
JOIN’s
Composite Indexes
Best Practice Guidelines
Columnstore Index Storage
Columnstore Index  Guidelines

Class Cost:
Staring June 1st, 2013, the cost will be $149 which includes lunch.

Sign up here - http://sqlsat222precon.eventbrite.com

Kalen Delaney has been working with SQL Server for over 25 years, and provides advanced SQL Server training to clients around the world. She has been a SQL Server MVP since 1993 and has been writing about SQL Server almost as long. Kalen has spoken at dozens of technical conferences, including every PASS conference in the US and multiple TechEd events in both the US and Europe. Kalen is the author or co-author of many books on SQL Server, the most recent being SQL Server 2012 Internals, from O’Reilly/Microsoft Press. She is one of the main editors for SQL Server Central’s SQL Server Stairways series, http://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairway. Her most recent major editing project was as editor of SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2, a collection of articles by SQL Server experts from around the world, with all the royalties going to charity. 

Kalen’s website with her current training schedule is at http://www.SQLServerInternals.com and she blogs at www.sqlblog.com.