I will be doing a live, virtual presentation for the Columbus, Ohio SQL Server User’s Group on Thursday, April 14. The meeting is from 6PM till 8PM, Eastern time, and I believe that my presentation will start at about 6:45PM.

Here is the title and abstract:

Dr. DMV: How to Use Dynamic Management Views to Monitor and Diagnose Performance Issues With High Volume OLTP Workloads

SQL Server 2005 introduced Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) that allow you to see exactly what is happening inside your SQL Server instances and databases with much more detail than ever before. SQL Server 2008 R2 adds even more capability in this area. You can discover your top wait types, most CPU intensive stored procedures, find missing indexes, and identify unused indexes, to name just a few examples. This session (which is applicable to both 2005, 2008 and 2008 R2), presents and explains over thirty DMV queries that you can quickly and easily use to detect and diagnose performance issues in your environment.

The attendee link for LiveMeeting is here.