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LONDON
Evening Meeting (125 registered)
SQL 2008 Data Warehousing Features (Vincent Rainardi); Index Views and Computed Columns (Neil Hambly); Business Intelligence in Office 2010 - Excel,PowerPivot,SharePoint (Duncan Sutcliffe); finishing with a Q & A on BI with the panel
Sat, 27 Mar in 15 days
MANCHESTER
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Introduction to Business Intellence in the SQL Server Stack - ***Date to be confirmed*** - register your interest
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Introduction to Database Maintenance and Development 101 - ***Date to be confirmed*** - register your interest
Wed, 21 Apr in 40 days
READING
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Developer and DBA Focus
Fri, 7 May in 56 days
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Webcast (2 registered)
Database Design Part 1 - Why is Normalisation important? What is Normalisation, a look at First Normal Form (1NF) and Boyce Codd (BCNF) Normal Form
Wed, 19 May in 68 days
LONDON
Evening Meeting (17 registered)
Developer and DBA focus
Wed, 23 Jun in 103 days
READING
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Business Intelligence focus
Wed, 14 Jul in 124 days
LONDON
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Generic session on SQL Server

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
SQL Injection Attacks and Tips on How to Prevent Them
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
EDINBURGH
Evening Meeting (11 registered)
SQL Server Performance Analysis Tools and Powershell

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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
tonyrogerson Sun 10:14AM
Time for a brew - am reading on the SQL Server Modelling stuff and "M" - don't see where it fits to be honest #sqlfaq
tonyrogerson Fri 8:13PM
@Plip Should have used DAS and disk replication - commodity simple kit always the best approach (usually) #sqlfaq
tonyrogerson Fri 4:52PM
Ashwani Roy and Chris Testa-O'Neill are doing a 30 minute Q&A panel at the 17th March UG even - cool #sqlfaq
tonyrogerson Fri 3:13PM
Posted a blog http://bit.ly/afepEy that describes what Granularity is #sqlfaq
tonyrogerson Fri 12:24PM
7th May 1pm - 1.45pm http://bit.ly/c4UmAP I'm going to do a webcast on Normalisation - vender neutral #sqlfaq
tonyrogerson Fri 12:02PM
Just helped a friend take her first steps in SQL Server #sqlfaq over LiveMeeting; dam "namespace error" on SSRS on the install though :(
tonyrogerson Fri 10:32AM
Thinking about my Denormalisation/RElational Theory talk for SQLBits #sqlfaq; so much to cover - so little time.
mladenprajdic Fri 10:22AM
@tonyrogerson i don't know how useful the #sqlfaq is but there is #sqlhelp that is used and has quite some traffic.
tonyrogerson Fri 10:17AM
Whats the point using DISTINCT (tuples will b unique-I get that), but still keyless - what have you achieved in "relational" terms? #sqlfaq
tonyrogerson Fri 10:09AM
In CJ Date's book SQL and Relational Theory he talks about having DISTINCT on every query - that would be interesting #sqlfaq #infooverload
tonyrogerson Fri 7:39AM
17th March Business Intelligence event is now full - we've over 100 registered now, there is a reserve list in operation #sqlfaq