The maximum is 50 for this meeting, I will send confirmation emails out by Friday 21st September.

The next BI usergroup meeting will be held on the 26th September at the office of IMGroup in Holborn in London.

We have 2 speakers for the evening, who will be kept apart by some beer and pizza


Suranjan Som of IMGroup: Data Mining in practice – the Microsoft Way

Data Mining has come a long way from being a black art to a contemporary tool that allows businesses to unearth the hidden potential in their data. Come and join us for a whirlwind that looks how one can leverage data mining to address business problems using the new features in SQL 2005/2008.

Mark Hill of Edenbrook: What’s new in the SQL2008 relational engine for BI?

How does Katmai change how we do MS BI projects, Mark Hill take a look

at the planned improvements such as CDC and UPSERT and what impact they will have. Followed by

a couple of demos on how these new features can be used