Two DBAs walk in to a room of Developers...
SQL Server User Group and Scottish Developers Present:
Two DBAs walk in to a room of Developers...
Did you hear the one about the two DBAs that walked into a room full of developers?
If you want to find out what happened then come along and let Martin Bell and Satya SK Jayanty (our two intrepid DBAs) show you before heading off to the pub to have a good laugh about it all.
Speaker Bios
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
18:00 - 18:30 - Door Open
18:30 - 18:35 – Introduction
18:35 - 19:20 – Table Valued Parameters - Saints or Sinners?, Martin Bell, SQL Server MVP
With the release of SQL Server 2008 and the new Table Valued Parameter feature, should we all be using them orare they the spawn of the devil? Martin will look at what options are available in the different versions of SQL Server and compares the performance and practicalities of using each one.
19:20 - 19:30 – Break
19:30 - 20:20 – Data, is it too much? Patterns and Practices with SQL Server, Satya Shyam K Jayanty, SQL Server MVP
If You Have Too Much Data, Then Good Enough Is Good Enough
In this session we cover the topics include, among others, where things are breaking when you have too much data, maintaining data integrity, and analyzing patterns.
20:20 - 20:30 – Feedback and prize giving
20:30 – Pub (back bar at Waxy O'Connor's)
Location:
Room M126
George Moore Building
Cowcaddens Road
Glasgow
G4 0BA