Jimmy May

Jimmy May (@aspiringgeek) is a Microsoft Certified Master, Solutions Architect at the Data Propulsion Lab (DPL) of SanDisk, & formerly a member of the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team (SQL CAT) where he managed the Customer Lab which hosts the biggest, fastest, & most interesting SQL Server apps from all over the world. His last day job was Senior Database Architect for one of the world’s largest SQL Server high-throughput OLTP DBs. He was a founder & on the executive committees of both the Indiana Windows User Group (www.iwug.net) & Indianapolis Professional Association for SQL Server (www.indypass.org). He is a Microsoft Certified Master, is a recipient of the MS IT Gold Star award, & has been selected for the Microsoft Oracle Center of Excellence. Contact him at jimmymay@microsoft.com. Visit his SQL Server performance & personal productivity blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/jimmymay. Jimmy tweets at www.twitter.com/aspiringgeek.

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To The Cloud, Infinity, & Beyond: Top 10 Lessons Learned

Microsof IT's Cloud strategy involves migrating hundreds of applications to Azure. The scale on which it is being done may be unprecedented. Lessons Learned are numerous. This session exposes the most important—& painful—ones.

SQL Server on Flash: Re-Thinking Best Practices

Flash storage is a game changer for virtually every app in which it is used. Whether used locally, for tiered storage, or all-flash arrays, flash is turning what we thought we knew about SQL Server best practices on its head.

Columnstore Indexes in SQL 2014: Flipping the DW Faster Bit

This presentation includes an overview of SQL Server 2012 & a deep dive into SQL Server 2014 columnstore indexes, including a review of the architecture, as well as the challenges, workarounds, travails, & big wins at customer sites

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