Steel City SQL February Meeting

Steel City SQL, the Birmingham chapter of PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server), will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, February 21 , from 6-8 pm at the New Horizons Computer Learning Center, 601 Beacon Pkwy. West, Suite 106, Birmingham, AL 35209.

Admission is free, but please register at http://steelcitysql.org/.

This month's speaker will be Kevin Boles, who will discuss "Fundamentals of Physical Join Operators". Kevin is a SQL Server expert, working exclusively with the product since version 6.5. With more than 15 years of database experience, he holds many SQL Server related certifications and is also an MCT and MVP. Kevin teaches occassionally and has been a very successful independent consultant for almost ten years. He is also a Mentor with SolidQ, a top-tier global SQL Server consulting firm. His passion is the relational engine, especially scalability, performance analysis and tuning.

"This will be an ideal session for those that don't yet grok the three types of joins available to the SQL Server engine or the scenarios for which each join type is optimal. All will be explained here with some very slick visual demonstrations of internal data flow as well as TSQL code samples. Getting more advanced, we will also cover how bad performance can get when suboptimal joins are used and some things you might be able to do about that."

The February sponsor is SQL Saturday #112. The next meeting is planned for March 20, 2012.

Steel City SQL hosts meetings on the third Tuesday of every month. Our normal meeting room in the New Horizons Computer Learning Center is room #9, but check the visual displays when you arrive to confirm. Food is generally provided for each meeting. If you plan on attending please email steelcitysql@gmail.com so we can get an accurate head count to plan for food.