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Evening Meeting on Thu May 21, 2009 in LONDON

SQL Server in the Cloud - Evening Event


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Cost Free
Organiser UK SQL Server User Group
Address Microsoft London Cardinal Place 100 Victoria Street London SW1E 5JL
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Come and join us for this great evening focusing on Microsofts solution to storing data in the cloud. We will be focusing on SQL Data Services

These meetings are great opportunities to meet other SQL Server professionals, get your burning issues solved.

This is a provisional agenda, it will be updated as we get more details.

Agenda

18:00 - 18:30 Meet & Greet

18:30 - 18:40 Intro, what’s in the news, Q&A,  

18:40 - 18:50 Nuggets

Let us know if you have a 5 minute nugget you want to share.

18:50 - 19:40 The Cloud DBA - Simon Munro
In this session Simon illustrates the influences of the cloud on how and where data is accessed and cautions that database professionals need a better understanding in order to re-assert ownership of a crucial organizational asset.  The session focuses on what is underway in the Microsoft stack and is sprinkled with demonstrations and ideas for creating database architectures that embrace traditional as well as cloud data storage.

19:40 - 20:00 Networking with refreshments (sponsored by Microsoft)

20:00 - 21:00 What's new in SQL Data Services - Jamie Thomson

Come hear how SQL Data Services is evolving to provide rich relational database capabilities and how easy it is to take existing database applications and extend them to the cloud. Learn how SQL Data Services provides highly available and scalable relational database storage and capabilities while allowing you to leverage existing SQL Server knowledge, protocols, client libraries and tools.


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Microsoft London Cardinal Place 100 Victoria Street London SW1E 5JL
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Bios:

Simon Munro

Simon Munro is a Senior Practice Consultant with EMC Consulting.  Currently doing solution architecture on the Microsoft stack, Simon has spent more than fifteen years straddling the line between application and database development.  Over the years he has worked on a wide range of database solutions from transactional to data warehouse and various volumes and loads.
http://blogs.conchango.com/simonmunro   @simonmunro

Jamie Thomson

SQL Server BI Consultant from EMC Consultant

http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson

 

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aaronbertrand Sun 2:45PM
@tonyrogerson some people use (SMALL)DATETIME as a key, e.g. for reporting, so GETDATE()/SYSUTCDATE() etc. #sqlfaq #sqlhelp
tonyrogerson Sun 9:44AM
Looking at methods to generate a surrogate key value - IDENTITY, NEWID, NEWSEQUENTIALID, diy, hashing (SHA1 ??) - any more?#sqlfaq #sqlhelp
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Feels like I'm writing a book on surrogate keys, Part 1 blogged http://bit.ly/bRbFjX (Rules for surrogate keys, problems they solve) #sqlfaq
Jennifer Stirrup Wed 6:49PM
Is anyone hiring at the moment? Looking for a London-based BI focused role
tonyrogerson Wed 12:46PM
@philcr I'd really like to see Surface with a 2008 R2 demo on it taking full advantage of the kit - that would be cool! #sqlfaq