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Full Day Seminar on Sat May 02, 2009 in Glasgow

Developer Day Scotland

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Cost Free
Organiser Scottish Developers
Address Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA
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Developer Day Scotland

Developer Day Scotland (DDS) is a community event, run by community for community, which is based upon the highly successful Developer! Developer! Developer! (DDD) community conference events.

Scottish Developers is pleased to bring this phenomenal success to Scotland once again. The very best of the UK speaker community will be presenting on the topics delegates wish to see.

Highlights of Developer Day Scotland

Listed below are some of the key highlights of the day:

  • Modern state of the art conference facility courtesy of Glasgow Caledonian University.
  • Four technical tracks with a capacity of of 200 delegates.
  • Sixty minute in-depth technical content sessions.
  • Leading international speakers and technology specialists.
  • Networking area, CPD resources.
  • Sponsor area to facilitate networking with delegates

      The Developer Day Scotland team are constantly working on adding resources and more value to the day, so remember to come back from time to time to see what’s been added.

      Who Should Attend?

      Anyone involved in the software development or software engineering world.

      Delegates will typically be drawn from software professionals and soon-to-be professionals, including business analysts, designers, DBAs, software developers, software engineers, students, team leads, testers and not forgetting managers of all levels.

      Dates & Times

      DDS will run from 9am to 5pm on Saturday 2nd May 2009.

      Venue

      The Continuing Professional Development Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA.

      See the location on       Google Maps or the Caledonian University website

      Cost

      Now the very best part! This event is free thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and supporters.

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      Past Events RSS

      25 Feb 2010
      EDINBURGH
      Evening Meeting (19 registered)
      ** Prize Draw **, An evening of performance troubleshooting with Iain Kick , Learning SQL Server with Alistair Board
      25 Feb 2010
      CARDIFF
      Evening Meeting (16 registered)
      **Change to Agenda** BI Fundamentals: Building an Enterprise ETL Framework in SSIS, Data Warehouse Design
      20 Jan 2010
      DUNDEE
      Evening Meeting (7 registered)
      Allan Mitchell - Intro to SQL Server Integration Services 2008; Tony Rogerson - Intro to SQL Server tools both flavours - DBA and Developer. Usual Nuggets, Usual SQL LiveLock; Q & A; Advice etc..
      17 Dec 2009
      MANCHESTER
      Evening Meeting (9 registered)
      Manchester SQL Server User group - Round the table talks, SQL Nuggets, Informal talk and out for a drink and a chance to win a Copy of Windows 7 and SQL Server 2008
      10 Dec 2009
      LEEDS
      Evening Meeting (9 registered)
      An evening of Service Broker and Powershell
      26 Nov 2009
      EDINBURGH
      Evening Meeting (8 registered)
      ** Cancelled ** SQL Server Nuggets and a look into the Newsgroups
      26 Nov 2009
      LONDON
      Evening Meeting (57 registered)
      SQL Server internals and best practice for Absolute Beginners (Tony Rogerson); Nuggest from Dave Ballantyne on Ranking, UDF's; MS Business Intelligence Project Boosters (Siddharth Mehta) - an Introduction to the Power of Policies (Martin Cairney), BakBone product demonstration and the first LiveLock Discussion
      18 Nov 2009
      LONDON
      Evening Meeting
      SQL Azure and what is new in SQL Server 2008 R2
      11 Nov 2009
      READING
      Evening Meeting (36 registered)
      High Availability (Partitioning, File Groups (use of, backup/restore)) and an Introduction to SQL Server architecture - Tony Rogerson; Virtualising SQL Server (why, design, how, issues, solutions, troubleshooting) - Justin Langford
      29 Oct 2009
      LONDON
      Evening Meeting (42 registered)
      Deploying SSRS reports using msbuild (Jamie Thomson); BI 2.0 (Andrew Sadler); Data Warehouse Development Workbench for SQL Server (Steve Hitchman)
      28 Oct 2009
      DUNDEE
      Evening Meeting
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      15 Oct 2009
      MANCHESTER
      Evening Meeting (17 registered)
      Reporting Services evening. Hosted by Chris Testa-O'Neill
      14 Oct 2009
      READING
      Evening Meeting (33 registered)
      Focus: Developer/DBA; Tony Rogerson on TSQL Hints and Tips (CTE Recursion,Case,Partitioning,Sub-Queries,Normalisation/DeNormalisation) and Colin Leversuch-Roberts "How are my servers Today?" - real time monitoring dashboards
      8 Oct 2009
      CARDIFF
      Evening Meeting (18 registered)
      South Wales User Group first meeting - Ensuring Business Continuity (Backups, Mirroring and Monitoring) - Tony Rogerson; SQL 2008 Integration Services - some of the things that make it better - Allan Mitchell.
      8 Oct 2009
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      Evening Meeting (11 registered)
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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
      tonyrogerson Sat 2:18PM
      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