We will be running a competition for the best idea for subject to be covered by a session of the User Group the winner will get a registration for Visual Studio 2005 (to be claimed by 31/12/2006).
We also have a number of other prizes on to be offered during the evening.
Registration is at 6pm, evening will commence at 6:30pm and finish 9:30pm.
6:30pm - 6.45pm
Round Table Discussion
Update on what's been going on and is going on in the SQL Server space. Bring your SQL problems and ask the audience, bounce ideas - anything related to SQL Server.
6.45pm - 8.00pm
"Identifying Performance Problems with SQL 2005 Profiler"
Martin Bell, SQL Server MVP
In this session Martin will demonstrate how to use SQL Profiler to find poorly performing SQL.
8.00 - 8.15pm
Break
8.15pm - 9.30pm
SQL 2005 - XML
Martin Bell, SQL Server MVP
This talk will show you how to use the new XML datatype in SQL 2005, changes to the FOR XML statement, XML data manipulation and using XQuery.