Free training in May from Pragmatic

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Speaker: Jorge Segarra
Topic: STOP! Consolidate and Listen!
Date: May 15, 2012, 11:00AM EDT
In today's economic times, we are being asked to do more with less-
less budget, less hardware-and yet our data needs keep growing! How do
we keep our database infrastructure humming along given these
restrictions? In this session, we talk about different options of
consolidation, including database-level consolidation, instance-level
consolidation, and virtualization. We also discuss some of the tools
and methods you can use today to help consolidate your SQL Server
environment and do more with less.

Speaker: Bradley Schacht
Topic: SharePoint for the DBA
Date: May 17, 2012, 11:00AM EDT
In this session Brad will discuss the DBA's role in a SharePoint
environment as well as much of the important information about
SharePoint that a DBA should know. Topics to be discussed include
SharePoint database architecture, service applications creating
databases, dos and don'ts of database maintenance, backup and restore
and disaster recovery. Brad will also cover some of the blurry lines
such as where do the DBA's job responsibilities end and the SharePoint
admin's being. This session is a must attend for any DBA that deals
with SharePoint in their environment.

Speaker: Bradley Ball
Topic: Transparent Data Encryption Inside and Out In SQL 2012
Date: May 22, 2012, 11:00AM EDT
Security is a very important part of your job and in how data is
utilized. We have many tools to make data more secure, and starting in
SQL 2008 we were able to add Transparent Data Encryption to that list.
Find out What it does and What it doesn’t do, How it effects Read-Only
Filegroups, Performance, Compression (Backup and Row/Page), What the X.
509 Encryption Standard is and Why you should be careful of what you
store and where, and other Advance Features as well as some tips on
how to manage it.

Speaker: Kathi Kellenberger
Topic: SQL Server Data Compression
Date: May 29, 2012, 11:00AM EDT
SQL Server data compression was introduced with 2008. Of course,
compression can save you storage space, but many DBAs do not know that
you can get a performance boost from compression as well. By attending
this webinar, you will learn about the two levels of compression, how
to estimate the benefits of compression, and how to implement it.

Register here:
http://pragmaticworks.com/Resources/webinars/Default.aspx