Vancouver BI 
PASS Chapter

	MARCH MEETING PART 1	MARCH MEETING PART 2
Date	Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 @ 6pm	Thursday March 18th, 2010 @ 6pm
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Title	What’s New in SQL Server 2008 R2?	Tuna Helper – Proven Process for Tuning SQL
		Many DBAs and Developers are faced with tuning poorly performing SQL statements. However, many tuning projects fail because the process being used is inefficient. This presentation will walk through a process Confio Software uses with great success and will include topics such as indexing strategies, use of column statistics, SQL wait event data, column selectivity and several more that will help the you succeed on future tuning projects.
Presenter	Damir Bersinic – Microsoft Canada	Janis Griffin - Senior  DBA – Confio Software
	As an IT Pro Advisor for Microsoft Canada, Damir is passionate about reaching out to and engaging with the IT Pro community across Canada. He focuses on working with a broad range of audiences within the IT Pro community to foster relationships and convey Microsoft technologies and solutions. He is proud to be able to leverage his real life hands-on experience to relate to the challenges faced by the IT Pro community today. Damir is an integral part of the Microsoft team that drives awareness, education and training through events and directly engaging with Canada's professional communities, including IT managers, infrastructure specialists and architects as well as systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and community leaders. Before joining Microsoft Canada, Damir was Data Architect for a large building materials company, as well as a long-time consultant focusing on database and application integration issues. Before moving to Toronto he headed a Microsoft Certified Partner organization in Ottawa which provided consulting, training and systems integration services to private and public sector clients. Damir is also an accomplished author with titles on SQL Server, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, Active Directory, and Oracle to his credit. He holds a large number of industry certifications including those from Microsoft, Oracle and other organizations	Janis Griffin has over 20 years of DBA experience including design, development and implementation of many critical database applications. Before coming to Confio, Janis held DBA positions primarily in the Telecom Industry (15 yrs), working with both real-time network routing databases and OLTP business to business applications.  Janis was also a Principal Architect and Senior Manager, mentoring other DBAs on best practices in database performance tuning. She was responsible for managing all aspects of the Voice Network databases including short and long-term technical planning and strategic alliances. As a highly successful liaison between management and technical staff, Janis has proven to be an effective collaborator implementing cutting-edge database solutions.
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