Network, learn, ask a question, meet other folk, get fed - these are all things that happen at user group events. These events are a really great opportunity to socialise in an informal learning experience.

Remember to tell your friends and the people you work with; make sure you register as soon as you can.

6.00pm - 6.30pm Registration and networking
Meet and greet. (Eat biscuits)

6.30pm - 6.40pm  Introduction.

6.40pm - 6.50pm  Lightning Speakers

6.50pm - 7.40pm   Nicholas Colebourn - Designing tables for scale - data typing, data compression and table partitioning with Nick Coleburn
Good database design is the foundation of building robust, scalable database systems. Optimising your table design can make or break a database. In this session Nick will cover data typing, utilising SQL Server data compression and table partitioning, and how optimising the design of these technologies can substantially reduce disk I/O, memory usage and improve overall system performance.

7.40pm - 8.10pm  SQL Supper

Eat Pizza and talk about everything SQL Server.

8.10 pm - 9.00pm Justin Langford talking about the latest release of SQL Server (Denali)