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Biography:
Buck Woody has been working with Information Technology since 1981. He has worked for the U.S. Air Force, at an IBM reseller as technical support, and for NASA as well as U.S. Space Command as an IT contractor. He has worked in most all IT positions from computer repair technician to system and database administrator, and from network technician to IT Manager. But it is the database field he always returns to. He has been a DBA and Database Developer on everything from an Oracle system running on a VAX to SQL Server and DB2 installations. Buck has a business degree and several industry certifications, including MCSE, MCDBA and Brainbench DBA. He is the author of over 300 SQL Server articles and four published SQL Server books; he is the site personality on InformIT.com's SQL web, and was the President of the Tampa SQL User's Group for 5 years. He was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award in 2006 for SQL Server, and started work in the SQL Server Team at Microsoft a year later. He has over twenty years extensive professional and practical experience in computer networks and network design. Experienced in design and management of business and technical systems, as well as marketing and training those systems to the user community and corporate officers.
Topic Abstracts:
A Day in the Life of a DBA
Follow along with Alexi, a DBA with way too much to do as he learns about the new features in SQL Server 2008 that will speed up his database management day. He’s been told he can get one hour back – learn how PowerShell for SQL Server, Policy Based Management, the Data Collector and other new features will really gain him that much time!
Performance Tuning with SQL Server 2008
Learn about the Data Collector, the Enterprise Data Warehouse and new reports in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) can automate gathering performance data and give you guidance on what to tune and where. You’ll be able to spot historical performance trends, and you’ll learn how to implement these fantastic new features in SQL Server 2008.