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IE2: Immersion Event on Performance Tuning

Chicago, IL, US: April 23-27, 2012

Overview

This 5-day class is focused on the many areas surrounding performance. While a class such the Immersion Event on Internals and Design should be taken prior to taking this class, this class also stands alone for anyone wanting to focus on some of the most important aspects of performance tuning for SQL Server.

There are many aspects to performance tuning – some should be done when the database is designed, prototyped and tested, while others must be implemented over time. Why can’t you do all of this during design? Data churn varies, user needs change and what the users told you during development often turns out to be untrue; the end result is that workloads change. The key to long term success is being able to understand, recognize and respond to these changes.

In terms of resource troubleshooting, we’ll introduce key concepts that explain how your SQL Server is performing – IO, SQLOS, waits, queues, and inconsistent plans – and explain how to investigate performance issues related to them. We’ll focus on features (many were new for SQL Server 2008) that allow better analysis and/or control to constrained and protect critical workloads and perform very in-depth troubleshooting.

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Event details:

Instructors: Paul S. Randal, Kimberly L. Tripp, Jonathan Kehayias, Joe Sack.

Class will run from 8:30am-5:45pm Monday through Thursday and 8:30am-5:00pm on Friday.

Detailed agenda:

7:45am Coffee/tea
8:30am Class begins

9:45am 15-minute break
11:15am 15 minute break

12:30pm Lunch break
1:30pm Class resumes

2:45pm 15-minute break with dessert
4:15pm 15-minute break

5:45pm Class ends (5:00pm on Friday)

For those of you planning air travel and departure times after the class completion on Friday: we do end at 5:00pm on Friday and we use every minute of that schedule, and often we run a few minutes over. For most deliveries we end between 5:00pm and 5:15pm. This depends on questions and we often push out the 5:45pm endings earlier in the week if things are running behind but I can honestly say that we’ve never ended early. Our general recommendation is for you to purchase tickets with departures no earlier than 8:00pm. However, each city/location may be a little different. Consider contacting the hotel (or the hotel’s website) for more specific insight into travel times and specific travel options to the airport.

Evening events:

Monday evening: “Meet-n-Greet” in the bar. We’ll open a tab and pick up the first round so we can get to know each other better and wind down from day 1.
Tuesday evening: Guest presenter (tbd) will present from 6:30pm-9:00pm
Wednesday evening: Guest presenter (tbd) will present from 6:30pm-9:00pm
Thursday evening: Guest presenter (tbd) will present from 6:30pm-9:00pm

You will receive printed materials for all of the lecture content + demo scripts and a hands-on lab DVD that you can use to work through self-paced exercises covering much of what we talk about. Additionally, after the event ends, we will provide all classroom demo content on our website as a zip of demo scripts.
Also included in your registration fee are coffee, breakfast, snacks and lunch. On the registration page, please let us know if you have special dietary requirements. Click here to see an example menu.
Class size is limited to 36 students.

Location details:

The Immersion Event will be held in the Hilton Suites Chicago/Oak Brook.
This hotel is 20 minutes from O'Hare airport and is near a large mall with many amenities. We've held three Immersion Events here in 2011.
The hotel has a special rate of $104/night Sunday through Friday (departing Saturday), for a two-room suite! This rate includes:

Onsite parking
Wireless internet access for the entire stay
Full breakfast on Saturday/Sunday if staying overnight for the following nights:

Saturday, April 14 (breakfast on Sunday included)
Friday, April 20 (breakfast on Saturday included)
Saturday, April 21 (breakfast on Sunday included)
Friday, April 27 (breakfast on Saturday included)

Full American Breakfast is included with class during the week

You can access this special rate be entering the group code 'SQL' when booking your room. This rate is likely to sell-out at the hotel so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Pricing details:

Full price for the Immersion Event is US$3,495.
Early-bird rate is US$2,995 for registrations received before midnight (PST) Friday, 9th March, 2012.
Any discount code entered will be reflected in the price during registration.
For general discount information please see the F.A.Q..

Cancellation policy:

Cancellations prior to 23rd February, 2012 (PST): fully-refunded minus $100 administration fee and any applicable credit-card processing charges.
Cancellations from 23rd February, 2012 to 22nd March, 2012 inclusive (PST): 50% refund of registration price.
Cancellations from 23rd March, 2012 to 22nd April, 2012 inclusive (PST): no refund.

Registration details: Click HERE to go to our events registration page.

For more information, please contact kimberly@SQLskills.com.