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Evening Meeting on Thu Nov 13, 2008 in Edinburgh

Scottish Area SQL Server User Group - Jammin SQL Server 2008

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Jammin' SQL Server 2008
By now you may have all seen the road shows and talks about SQL Server 2008, in this anarchic meet where Martin Bell, Rob Carrol and Satya Shyam K Jayanty will all chip in to demo and talk about the new features of SQL Server 2008, and discuss what they like about them, what the pro and cons are and potential pitfalls. If you want to see anything specific email me and we'll try to include it. What you are not going to see is any PowerPoint so bring a pen and paper.

Rob Carrol
Rob Carrol has been working with SQL Server since 1999 when he started out his career as a web developer using ASP/.NET, ColdFusion and SQL Server. Since then he has continued to work with SQL Server in a DBA and consultancy capacity, specializing in performance tuning and database troubleshooting. He joined Microsoft in April 2008 as a SQL Server Premier Field Engineer, working with some of Microsoft’s largest clients in the UK and Europe. Rob lives in South Ayrshire, Scotland and I am married with 2 daughters. When he’s not working with SQL Server you’ll usually find him playing Xbox or thinking about football or golf !

Satya Shyam K Jayanty
Satya is an Independent Database expert, with over 16 years of experience in application designing, developing and managing database technologies using industry famous technologies & software. He has been working with SQL Server since version 4.2 (1996) and an active member & moderator in Technet, MSDN, SQL-Server-Performance.com forums/websites and also writes for http://www.sql-server-performance.com website. A regular speaker and volunteer (Ask The Experts) at SQL Server events such as SQLPASS, Tech-ed etc. he was first made a SQL Server MVP in 2006. He manages the website http://www.sqlserver-qa.net.

Martin Bell
Martin Bell has been a freelance computer consultant in the UK for over 23 years. He has worked on many relational database systems and since the 1998 has specialized in SQL Server. He was first awarded Microsoft MVP (SQL Server) status in June 2003. Martin organises the Leeds and Scottish Area SQL Server User Group meetings and is one of the founding members of the SQLBits organising committee.

Agenda
18:30 – 19:00 – Introduction, Networking and Food

19:00 – 21:00 – Jammin’ SQL Server 2008

Location:

Microsoft Office at Waverley Gate

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/about/map-edinburgh.mspx

Registration will be necessary as I have to submit registrations to Microsoft on Thurday morning.

Coming Events

Mon, 6 Jul in 3 days CAMBRIDGE Evening Meeting (27 registered) SQL Server User Group Cambridge - SQL Server 2008	Thu, 16 Jul in 13 days MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (19 registered) Analysis Services (Getting Dimensional with Data)(Optimising Analysis Services) and Excel (not a bad Data Mining client at all) with Chris Testa-O'Neill, Steve Wright and Allan Mitchell SQL Server MVP. Evening sponsored by SQL Sentry, Inc
Mon, 20 Jul in 17 days LEEDS Evening Meeting (3 registered) SQL Server User Group Leeds	Thu, 30 Jul in 27 days LIVE MEETING Online (1 registered) TBC: Microsoft on Communities
Thu, 6 Aug in 34 days LONDON Evening Meeting (6 registered) SQL Server Usergroup does the Great British Beer Festival	Mon, 10 Aug in 38 days LIVE MEETING Online (3 registered) An Evening with the Microsoft Learning Team - Understanding SQL Server Certification and Learning Technologies from Microsoft Learning
Thu, 3 Sep in 62 days MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (3 registered) Manchester SQL Server User Group Meeting - Database developer focused event - Andrew Couch	Wed, 9 Sep in 68 days READING Evening Meeting (2 registered) Database Administration/Management/Engine Focused Event - Agenda TBC
Wed, 14 Oct in 103 days READING Evening Meeting (1 registered) Developer Focused Event - Agenda TBC	Wed, 11 Nov in 131 days READING Evening Meeting (3 registered) Business Intelligence/Data Mining Focused - Agenda TBC

Past Events

26 Jun 2009 LIVE MEETING Online (21 registered) Backing up and Restoring Databases - 30 minutes on how to, why to and building an effective Disaster Recovery strategy - Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP	25 Jun 2009 LIVE MEETING Online (19 registered) Creating a star schema and OLAP cube - Trevor Dwyer
18 Jun 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting (47 registered) SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting; Replaying Profiler Traces; nugget on %%lockres%%	11 Jun 2009 LIVE MEETING Online (14 registered) SQL Server Basics (Part 2 : An introduction to using the product - "What is SQL Server? The component parts: cache, databases, files, logs."); Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP
10 Jun 2009 READING Evening Meeting (43 registered) SQL 2008 R2 and Gemini; From Data Modelling to Information Architecture and Attribute Relationships, Aggregations and using MDX Studio to its best	4 Jun 2009 LIVE MEETING Online (39 registered) Integrating Data Mining into your BI Solution (7.30pm - 8pm); Allan Mitchell SQL Server MVP
3 Jun 2009 LEEDS Evening Meeting (14 registered) SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting Techniques - Sponsored by Quest Software	28 May 2009 LIVE MEETING Online (22 registered) SQL Server Basics (Part 1 : An introduction to using the product - "The SQL Server Toolset"); Tony Rogerson SQL Server MVP
27 May 2009 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting (17 registered) Patterns and Practices with SQL Server and How to Model Hierarchies.	23 May 2009 TAUNTON Full Day Seminar DDD South West
21 May 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting (46 registered) SQL Server in the Cloud - Evening Event	20 May 2009 CAMBRIDGE Evening Meeting (34 registered) Cambridge SQL UG - SSIS and SSRS sponsored by Redgate
13 May 2009 READING Evening Meeting (24 registered) Sessions on Understanding ADO.NET Data Services, Windows 7 features in-depth and the usual SQL Nuggets and Networking	7 May 2009 MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (16 registered) Tony Rogerson (23 years of hints and tips on SQL and using it) and Chris Testa-O'Neill (Monitoring and Controlling Resources in SQL Server)
2 May 2009 GLASGOW Full Day Seminar Developer Day Scotland

Member Chat

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Allan Mitchell Tue 6:41AM

I'm from West Yorkshire if that helps ;-)
Seriously though. Mail Tony.

Robert Hodgson Mon 11:14AM

I am looking for an sql developer in the west yorkshire area for a few hours a week.

Tiago Rente Sun 11:05AM

Hi,
Where can I get the recorded session for "SQL 2008 R2 and Gemini; From Data Modelling to Information Architecture and Attribute Relationships, Aggregations and using MDX Studio to its best"?
Thanks.