We have typically meetings on the second Tuesday of every month.  Our group meets at the Community Foundation of Sarasota County.

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 - 6:10 - General Q&A session & Announcements
6:10 - 7:20 - Presentation(s)
7:20 - 7:30 - Door prizes and Question & Answer session
7:30 - ??    - Networking and Socializing

2635 Fruitville Rd.
Sarasota, FL 34237

Topic:	Open Discussion
Date:	Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Speaker:	Kendal Van Dyke
Location:	Community Foundation of Sarasota County
Overview:	Paging DR Availability, You're Wanted in the Recovery Room There are a lot of options when it comes to disaster recovery and high availability with regards to SQL Server. Some, such as log shipping, replication, clustering, and mirroring ship with SQL Server. Others, such as disk level replication and virtualization rely on third party products. Most business owners (and many DBA’s) lump disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) together and while they do share some pieces, they call for different strategies. There are lots of options. Do you pick one or more than one of these options, and based on what? When does it make sense to move from SQL mirroring to SAN mirroring? Does it ever make sense to do log shipping and replication on the same database?  Even if you haven’t yet mastered all of these options, it’s incredibly important that you understand the decision tree that helps you pick the right one(s) for your business,  and that you can explain the choices clearly to the stakeholders. It’s not as complicated as it sounds, but it is complicated – and in this hour presentation we’ll give you a high level understanding of the options, the costs, complexities, and reasons for using each of them. Speaker: Kendal began working with SQL Server 7.0 as a developer in 1999. He has spent the last 9 years as a production DBA working on systems that process hundreds of millions of transactions per day. He is currently Senior DBA at Channel Intelligence in Celebration, FL where he is responsible for the management, monitoring, and performance of 40+ SQL Servers. Kendal stays active in the SQL Community by speaking at events such as SQL Saturday, .NET Code Camp, and OPASS (Orlando PASS chapter). Kendal is known as @SQLDBA on Twitter and is a contributor to the forums on SQLServerCentral.com. Kendal also maintains a technical blog on SQL Server topics at http://kendalvandyke.blogspot.com. Pizza will be provided courtesy of Microsoft
Sponsor:	Microsoft - User Group Support Services

Tuesday, September 21st - Disaster Recovery and High Availability