This Monday saw another meeting of the Atlanta MDF group at the Intellinet office.  Doug did a great job running the meeting and was the main presenter for the night.  We opened with a quick presentation from our sponsor InterCerve - they're releasing version 2 of their great tool SQLSentry.  My favorite feature that I saw in the overview was the awesome scheduling interface allowing you to see in an Outlook style calendar all of your jobs across multiple servers.  Brilliant stuff and well worth you checking out.  There is a free 30 downloadable version - give it a try.

After the sponsor presentation, Doug gave a great lecture on how to optimize Reporting Services solutions.  We talked about scheduling and caching reports, using stored procedures, licensing requirements, and way more.  I should have been taking notes, but I think he posts his presentation online so go check the website at www.atlantamdf.com.  We had about 40 people in attendance and lots of those heads were nodding in agreement along with Doug as he pointed out how to get improvements in speed.

-- Matt Ranlett