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Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for May 2009 - Critical Security Bulletins

This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for May 2009.

 

The full version of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for May 2009 can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-may.mspx.

 

With the release of the bulletins for May 2009, this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin advance notification originally issued on May 7, 2009. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/advance.mspx.

 

To receive automatic notifications whenever Microsoft Security Bulletins are issued, subscribe to Microsoft Technical Security Notifications on   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/notify.mspx.

 

Microsoft will host a webcast to address customer questions on these bulletins on Wednesday, May 13, 2009, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada). Register for the May Security Bulletin Webcast at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/summary.mspx.

Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:52 AM by SQL Master | 3 Comments

Tech-ed India 2009 -

The whole set of tracks have been desinged under work loads (i.e. areas of work) rather than any other theme such as performance, security.  Just to simply the work load allows one to choose ones area of focus and attend sessions, get questions answered as well as try oneself at the hands-on-labs provided.

With 28 tracks, 112 sessions covering 3 days, there is less chance that your focus area is missing.  In addition to it, the Microsoft India Development Center also is hosting Technology Tents where they would be showcasing the cool and innovative products that they are working on.  This gives a very early preview of whats coming up from this team.

In addition if you are community enthusiast, there is a community track that allows members to discuss their specific topics, present sessions, chalk talks etc., and this could be an excellent starting point if you want to get into presenting in technical forums.  This would showcase our communith leads, most valuable professions (mvps) and regional directors who have vast experience in Microsoft technologies as well as presenting in technical forums.  This definitely inspires the technical speaker in you.

We look forward to seeing you at Tech Ed and lets make it a grand success. 

 For more details and registration visit www.msteched.in

 
SO MUCH TO DISCOVER … HUNDREDS OF WAYS TO LEARN
 
 
Not only that I'm speaking in this conference within Unconference, as I was depressed to miss the Tech-Ed Los Angeles conference this week!

Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 1:24 AM by SQL Master | 2 Comments

New PASS Summit 2009 Dates - keep an eye on pre and post conference dates

PASS Community Summit 2009

New PASS Summit 2009 Dates

Based on survey feedback, PASS also adjusted its conference agenda this year, scheduling both pre- and post-conference seminars instead of leading with 2 days of pre-conference seminars.

"The schedule change gives our attendees more flexibility in their travel schedule," Graziano explains.  "They can attend all the breakout sessions without traveling on a weekend, which should make life easier for our East Coast attendees. And they can still regsiter for our popular full-day technical seminars, held Monday and Friday."

Key dates are:

  • Pre-Conference Seminars:  Monday, November 2
  • Welcome Reception:  Monday, November 2
  • PASS Summit Sessions:  Tuesday, November 3 - Thursday, November 5
  • Post-Conference Seminars:  Friday, November 6

Posted Saturday, April 25, 2009 2:41 AM by SQL Master | 2 Comments

Register for Microsoft Virtual TechDays (May 13-15, 2009)

Posted Friday, April 24, 2009 4:58 AM by SQL Master | 2 Comments

All set to go for Developer Day Scotland in May 2009

In continuation to Developer Day Scotland session submission & registration get ready to register to attend on May 02nd 2009, that consists with action-packed agenda for all IT professionals.

Click here to register your interest for this event

 

Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 3:35 AM by SQL Master | 2 Comments

SQL Server related Events and Webcasts

MSDN Webcast: Building Applications with SQL Server 2008 (Level 100)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 adds numerous new capabilities for developers, from support for spatial data types to a mechanism to store SQL BLOB data using the NTFS file system and several things in between.

 

TechNet Webcast: Governing Your Enterprise with Policy-Based Management (Level 300)

Policy-Based Management is an essential new feature to maintain configuration consistency across large distributed environments, enforce strict regulatory requirements, and manage the complexity of Microsoft SQL Server instances throughout the enterprise

 

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 Capabilities for Meeting PCI Compliance Needs (Level 200)

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) is a preventative standard intended to reduce the risk of payment card fraud and information theft.

 

Microsoft Certification Coaching Session: Preparing for your Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance Exam (70-432) (session 1)

Take advantage of this coaching session hosted by a Microsoft Certified Trainer to help prepare for your Microsoft Certification exam.

 

Microsoft Certification Coaching Session: Preparing for your Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance Exam (70-432) (session 2)

Take advantage of this coaching session hosted by a Microsoft Certified Trainer to help prepare for your Microsoft Certification exam.

 

Posted Monday, March 02, 2009 6:09 AM by SQL Master | 3 Comments

SQLBits IV - Registration Open, places are limited so register quick
Platinum Sponsors

28th March 2009 Manchester

The Biggest SQL Server Conference in Europe
28 Sessions 28 Speakers
In one place on one day - Manchester Metropolitan University

And its
FREE
Registration is Now Open

Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:43 AM by SQL Master | 2 Comments

SQL Server Training Day, more training you can get from SQLKnowHow!

Here is another exciting news for the users to get SQL Server Training Day in an economical way, you may question how?

Its SQLKnowHow!

To complement the great experience of the sessions on the Saturday SQLBits have partnered with some companies to provide training seminars on the Friday before SQLBits IV confrence. There are 3 seminars to choose from. If you book early there is a discount of £50 and the details of each seminar are below, for more details about the seminar click on the relevant item:

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Full Price £249
Early Bird £199
Advanced TSQL and performance tuning for scalability with Simon Sabin

Understanding TSQL performance is crucial to building a successful scalable database solution.
In this session we will cover the fundamentals of performance tuning your SQL to ensure your application can scale.
We will look at resource utilization and contention, diagnosing performance issues and Improving performance with advanced TSQL techniques and indexing.

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Full Price £249
Early Bird £199
Introduction to MDX with Chris Webb
If you want to get the most out of your Analysis Services cube it’s essential to know and understand MDX: you need it to be able to write queries and calculations, and also to be able to use more advanced features such as cell security. This one-day seminar, aimed at those with little or no previous MDX experience, will teach you the basic concepts of the language as well as show you how to write common queries and calculations.  The seminar will be taught by Chris Webb.
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Full Price £249
Early Bird £199
Advanced Troubleshooting Workshop for SQL Server 2005 with Christian Bolton

The Advanced Troubleshooting Workshop for SQL Server 2005 provides attendees with SQL Server internals knowledge, practical troubleshooting skills and a proven troubleshooting methodology.   The workshop will enable attendees to tackle complex SQL Server problems with confidence.

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Presenter : Simon Sabin Company : SQL Know How
Duration : 1 day Cost : £199 before 28 February, full price £249
Registration :

Overview

Unlike many languages, SQL is a language where you don't explicitly control how the code is executed. With SQL you define intent and then the optimiser builds a query plan based on that. We will look at differing ways in which queries can be written, and how some of these can have disastrous impact on the performance and scalability of your system.

We will extend this knowledge to understand how the optimiser builds a query plan and how parameters and indexes affect the query plan chosen. This will give you the knowledge to know when query plan resuse is good and bad, how to avoid or benefit from parameter sniffing and ultimately write queries that perform better.

Topics

Understanding Resources 

  • CPU
  • IO
  • Memory
Diagnosing performance
  • Profiler
  • Query Execution plans
  • Dynamic Management Views
  • Perfmon
Advanced TSQL
  • Dynamic search conditions
  • Ranking functions
  • Windowed aggregates
  • Use of cursors
  • Scalar functions

Presenters

Simon Sabin is an independent consultant and trainer. He has worked with SQL Server since SQL Server 6.5, on many large scale systems built using the Microsoft architecture. He was awarded the Most Valuable Professional award in 2006 and is a leader in the SQL Server community in the UK. He has written and delivered the developer track of the SQL Server 2008 Jumpstart training for Microsoft alongside Bob Beauchemin. Alongside Allan Mitchell, Darren Green and Tony Rogerson he has setup SQL Know How, a company for providing SQL Server Consultancy and training based on real world experience.

 

Presenter : Chris Webb Company : Crossjoin Consulting Ltd
Duration : 1 day Cost : £199 before 28 February, full price £249
Registration :

If you want to get the most out of your Analysis Services cube it’s essential to know and understand MDX: you need it to be able to write queries and calculations, and also to be able to use more advanced features such as cell security. This one-day seminar, aimed at those with little or no previous MDX experience, will teach you the basic concepts of the language as well as show you how to write common queries and calculations.  The agenda for the day is as follows:

 

9:00        Welcome and Introduction

9:30        What is MDX and why do I need it? A session explaining where the MDX language comes from, which products use it, why it’s different from SQL and why you should learn it.

10:00     Fundamental MDX Concepts. This will describe the three most important objects you’ll encounter in MDX: the member, the tuple and the set. Understanding what they are and how to use them is the key to learning MDX

11:00     Break

11:15     Simple MDX Queries. In this section you’ll learn how to write simple MDX SELECT statements, and in the process you’ll gain a better understanding of members, tuples and sets.

12:30     Lunch

13:30     Simple MDX Calculations. This section will show you how to write calculated members in MDX that solve certain basic business problems.

14:30     Useful MDX Functions. Here we’ll discuss a number of useful MDX functions that return sets, members and numeric values, which we’ll need to be able to use when writing calculations.

15:30     Break

15:45     Putting It All Together. In the final session of the day you’ll see how everything we’ve learned can be used to implement 90% of all of the calculations you’ll ever need on a cube. We’ll go into detail on how to tackle certain common MDX calculations, such as ‘previous period growths’ and ‘market shares’.

17:00     Close


Attendees should bring a laptop with Analysis Services 2005 or 2008 and the AdventureWorks Analysis Services database installed, as there will be some practical exercises.
 

The seminar will be taught by Chris Webb of Crossjoin Consulting Limited (http://www.crossjoin.co.uk). Chris is an independent consultant specialising in Analysis Services performance tuning, troubleshooting, design and complex MDX; he’s also  SQL Server MVP, co-author of the book “MDX Solutions” and a well-known Analysis Services blogger (http://cwebbbi.spaces.live.com/). He has been running MDX training courses for companies worldwide (including Microsoft) for several years.


 

Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:23 AM by SQL Master | 2 Comments

My session at SQLBits IV - Upgrading To SQL Server 2005 & 2008: Notes & Best Practices

Thanks to the members/users who voted for my session in relate to the SQLBits IV conference submissions.

Thanks very much for submitting a session for SQLBits IV, 28th March 2009 in Manchester, I am very pleased to tell you that your session Upgrading To SQL Server 2005 & 2008:  Notes & Best Practiceshas been selected.

I recommend every SQL Server user to attend SQLBits conference which features a mix of both internationally-recognised speakers and speakers from the local tech community covering all aspects of SQL Server from development to DBA to BI, and yet remains free to attend. All you have to do is register and turn up on the day!  The three previous SQLBits conferences have all been great successes.

This time SQLBits IV will be held in the Geoffrey Manton Building of Manchester Metropolitan University, see the travel page for more details.


 

Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 1:53 AM by SQL Master | 2 Comments

Reminder: Live Webcast TODAY! 10 Tips for Performance Monitoring - IDERA
Live Webcast: PRACTICAL POWERSHELL :::: Part 1 of 5, Register Now!
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Tired of phone calls from end users complaining about slow SQL Server performance? 
Tune into this two-part webcast to learn practical tips for proactively monitoring and managing SQL Server performance. In this live series, Greg Robidoux with Edgewood Solutions will demonstrate 10 tasks every DBA should know to keep SQL Server running smoothly. You’ll also see a demo of how you can use Idera’s award-winning
SQL diagnostic manager to complete these tasks in no time.


Register Now! Part 1:

 
 
Date:
TODAY, February 4, 2009*
 
 
Time:
4:00 p.m. EST
 
  Hosted by: Idera | MSSQLTips  
 
Speaker:
Greg Robidoux, President and Founder of Edgewood Solutions
 
 
Register Here Now *Want to attend but can’t make this date? Each webcast will be archived for up to 6 months. Register now and we’ll notify you when the archive is available. PLUS, you'll be invited to the next 2 live webcasts in this series!
 
 

In Part 1 of this webcast series, you will learn how to:

  • Find and fix blocking or locking
  • Pin-point long running queries
  • Identify performance trends that could spell trouble
  • Find and fix index fragmentation
  • Monitor key resource consumption metrics, like CPU and I/O
 
  ____________________________________________________________________  
  And save the date for Part 2!  
  Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009  
  Time: 4:00 p.m. EST  
  Hosted by: Idera | MSSQLTips  
  Speaker: Greg Robidoux, President and Founder of Edgewood Solutions  
 
  • Monitor windows server performance counters and custom counters
  • Review job histories and backup completion
  • Monitor database size and trends
  • Review key database and server configuration settings
  • Execute real-time traces on SPID/Processes and kill processes

Be on the lookout for the next invitation and how to register for Part 2 of this webcast series!
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The series is a must for every SQL Server DBA - providing an excellent performance monitoring primer for novices and a handy review of best practices for more experienced DBAs. Register today!

About the Speaker:
Greg Robidoux is the President and founder of Edgewood Solutions, a technology services company delivering services and solutions for Microsoft SQL Server. He has been working with SQL Server for the past 11 years and has authored numerous articles and has delivered several presentations online and at local and national SQL Server events.

 

 
 
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Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:01 AM by SQL Master | 2 Comments

European PASS Conference 2009 & PASS Summit 2008 DVDs available

First things first...

PASS Summit 2008 DVDs Now Available

The PASS Summit 2008 in Seattle was the largest, most successful PASS Community Summit to date, with over 140 in-depth technical sessions. Now, the Summit 2008 DVD set is available for purchase for only $595 USD. If you missed the opportunity to attend last year's PASS Summit, take advantage of this opportunity to access the most extensive SQL Server training available in one DVD collection. Buy the Summit 2008 DVDs now.

European PASS Conference 2009:
Neuss, Germany, Apr 22-25, 2009

Want to Speak at the European PASS Conference?
Neuss, Germany, April 23-24.
Share your skills and experience with other SQL Server professionals. Speaker benefits include complimentary registration to the European PASS Conference 2009.

The deadline for applications is February 7th. Get more information
here

Not only that see & register your interest on PASS Group on LinkedIn or PASS Group on Facebook

 

 

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:43 AM by SQL Master | 2 Comments

Two DBAs walk in to a room of Developers...

... rest is history! Big Smile

An unique event is planned by Scottish Developers network on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (GMT) in Glasgow, Scotland.

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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.

Talk Description

Will be announced soon, as Martin and myself are awaiting the sessions that will be finalised in SQLBits IV & DDD Scotland events, to avoid the overlap/repetitions of the topic.

Speaker Biography

Martin Bell is a dashing and attractive redhead and you would never guess that he has been a freelance computer consultant in the UK for over 23 years. He’s 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 proving he is not just a pretty face! As an insight into his masochistic tendencies he currently organises the Scottish Area and Leeds Area SQL Server User Group meetings. He is also a founding organiser of the highly successful SQLBits Community Conferences showing he is slightly mad and very funny!!

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 is an active member & moderator in Technet, MSDN, SQL-Server-Performance.com forums/websites and also writing for http://www.sql-server-performance.com website. He is a regular speaker and volunteer (Ask The Experts) at SQL Server events such as SQLPASS, Tech-Ed etc. and he was awarded as SQL Server MVP in 2006. He also updates content & manage the website http://www.sqlserver-qa.net.

 

Agenda

  • 18:30 Doors Open
  • 19:00 Welcome
  • 19:10 TBC
  • 20:00 Break
  • 20:10 TBC
  • 20:50 Feedback and Prizes
  • 21:00 Pub (back bar at Waxy O'Connor's)

Venue

Room M126 of the George Moore Building at Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA

 

 

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 3:11 AM by SQL Master | 2 Comments

Developer Day Scotland - get ready for 2009 event on 2nd May at Glasgow Caledonian University.

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.

Not to mention that they are very popular among SQL Server community especially the Developers and other areas of interest within Microsft and SQL Server technologies. In their own words DDD welcomes anyone involved in the software development or software engineering world. Also the 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.

This time on 02nd May 2009 another big event is scheduled and list of topics are as follows along with the speaker names:

 

Languages:

·         Overview of Creating a Custom DSL with BOO : Paul Cowan

·         Snake charming : A demonstration of IronPython via communication in Second Life : Craig Nicol

·         Natural Language Parsing with ANTLR : Scott Cowan

·         Pay Attention People! : Ray Booysen

·         C++/CLI - Why, oh why? :  Seb Rose

·         What is Functional Programming : Barry Carr

·         Everything you wanted to know about Delphi Prism but were too afraid to ask : Barry Carr

·          

 

Web technologies:

·         How To Achieve World(-Ready) Domination In Silverlight :  Guy Smith-Ferrier

·         Customizing ASP.NET MVC Framework : Chris Canal

·         Unobtrusive JavaScript with ASP.NET MVC Framework and jQuery : Chris Canal

·         jQuery Deep Dive : Andy Gibson

·         Real-world MVC Architecture : Steven Sanderson

·         Web 3.0 (The Semantic Web) and the technologies that drive it : Seb Rose

·         Look! There's my Data! Virtual Earth sans Javascript : Colin Angus Mackay

·         ASP.NET 4.0 : Mike Ormond

·         A peek at Silverlight 3 : Chris Hay

·         The Mobile Web: Avoid the hype and improve your site : Matt Lacey

·         Oh I do Like to be beside the Seaside! :  Gary Short

·         Asp.net MVC Best Practices : Sebastian Lambla

·         An introduction to OpenRasta, an MVC framework with strong opinions : Sebastian Lambla

 

Communications:

·         Top 10 WCF Tips & Tricks : Barry Dorrans

·         REST Double Session : Alan Dean

·         WPF Tips’n’Tricks : Sebastian Lambla

 

Best Practice

·         Microsoft Source Analysis (or How To Start A Fight) : Guy Smith-Ferrier

·         Everything you wanted to know about Refactoring but were afraid to ask : Gary Short

·         This One Goes Up To 11, or How To Write Scalable ASP.NET : Phil Pursglove

·         Does Architecture Really Help? :  Eric Nelson

·         Scrum Pain: Lessons learned swimming against the current : Abid Quereshi

·          

 

Testing

·         Selenium - from the first crush to a healthy relationship : Petteri Hietavirta

·         Building maintainable and testable WPF applications : Ben Hall

·         CI Factory - Continuous Integration 101 : Liam Westley

·         Automating Testing With Virtual Server 2005 : Guy Smith-Ferrier

·         Using FIT (Framework for Integrated Test) to drive a UI for Acceptance Testing : Toby Henderson

·         TDD? I don't have time : Craig Nicol

·          

 

Virtualisation

·         Virtualisation for developers - What, Why, Where? : Liam Westley

·         Hyper-V for Developers : Liam Westley

 

 

General:

·         Visual Studio 2005 & 2008 IDE Tips and Tricks : Guy Smith-Ferrier

·         10 Things To Know Before Internationalizing An Application :  Guy Smith-Ferrier

·         The Science of Social Networking : Gary Short

·         When Good Architecture Goes Bad : Mark Dalgarno

·         An Overview of Quantum Computing : Dave McMahon

·         .NET Development on Linux : Toby Henderson

·          

 

Database:

·         The SQL Server 2008 Optimiser – Expansion, Making better plans through Constraints and real-world techniques to aid the Optimiser : Tony Rogerson

·         How do you do - Hierarchies? : Martin Bell

·         What use are the different new security features in SQL Server 2008? : Martin Bell

·         Array of Light : Martin Bell

·         Using Data Mining from your Application : Allan Mitchell

·         SQL Server TEMPDB - is this your performance bottleneck? :  Satya SK Jayanty

·         SQL Server Extended Events - diagnose and resolve production issues! : Satya SK Jayanty

·         Top Ten Strategies to Secure Your Code - a tour with SQL Server features too : Satya SK Jayanty

·         Testing the SQL Database - best practices : Satya SK Jayanty

·         Internationalisation and SQL Server: Sorting out Collations between Windows and .NET : Satya SK Jayanty

·         Successfully navigating (upgrading) from MS Access to SQL Server : Satya SK Jayanty

·         Data, is it too much? Patterns and Practices with SQL server :  Satya SK Jayanty

·         Who needs schema when you have SQL Data Services?! : Eric Nelson

·         SQL Server Architecture: The life of a query : Christian Bolton

·         SQL Server Architecture: Query Processing : Christian Bolton

·         SQL Server Policy Based Management : Rob Carrol

·          

 

Security:

·         Stop your web site being stung : Barry Dorrans

·         Authentication and the internet : Barry Dorrans

·          

 

User Interface:

·         Make Patterns With Patterns : Ray Booysen

·         WPF - What's in it for me? : Ged Mead

·         Beyond Silverlight with Windows Presentation Foundation : Mike Taulty

·         Let’s Make (3D WPF) Models : Mike Ormond

·          

 

Frameworks

·         Creating extendable applications using MEF : Ben Hall

·         AOP with Castle Windsor and PostSharp : Chris Canal

·         .NET Mesh Applications with the Live Framework : Mike Taulty

·         Understanding the Parallel Extensions to .NET Framework V4.0 : Mike Taulty

·         Sharing your code between the Compact Framework and Win Forms : Barry Carr

·         Make your own search engine with Lucene.Net : Scott Cowan

·          

 

Future technology

·         Oslo, Microsoft's Vision for the Future of Modelling : Robert Hogg

·         A Tour of Workflow Foundation V4.0 : Mike Taulty

·         An Introduction to the Azure Services Platform (Pie in the Sky or Next Big Thing?) : Mike Ormond

·         Azure to WPF – What tastes good in .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 : Alex Mackey

·         What's New in C# 4.0? :  Guy Smith-Ferrier

·         Embracing a new world – dynamic languages and .NET : Ben Hall

·          

 

Sharepoint

·         Developer Testing for Sharepoint : Richard Fennell

·         The Principle of Least Astonishment - Developing Custom Web Applications in SharePoint 2007 : Iain Angus

·         Integration of Sharepoint, Office 2007 and SQL Server Analysis Services: Lessons from the field. :  Satya SK Jayanty

 

 

To register and know more about this event refer to DDD-Homepage site, don't miss another great opportunity to upgrade your skills.

 

Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 3:04 AM by SQL Master | 3 Comments

SQLBits IV - 29th March 2008, voting now open for sessions

Here is the email context received from SQLBits Organising committee: 

We are pleased to announce that voting has opened for the SQLBits IV Community Conference. Please go to the SQLBits Website, and choose your favourite sessions and we will be awarding a prize to one lucky attendee just for voting. We have 90 sessions submitted by 38 different speakers including 17 Business Intelligence, 36 DBA, 29 Developer and 8 SQL 2008 specific session. A list of speakers who have submitted sessions are below:

Speaker

Example Session

Aaron Johal

Why must I shoehorn my data into tables? I need total flexibility to develop in an agile way!

Adib Jafari

SQL Server Disaster Recovery - Armed and Ready

Allan Mitchell

DMX

Andre Kamman

Stop throwing hardware at the problem !

Andrea Weir

Database Design for SQL Server for multi lingual websites

Andrew Wiles

Planning post PerformancePoint

Ashwani Roy

Understanding Graphical Execution Plans

Ben Hall

NHibernate – Open Source Object Relational Mapping (ORM)

Brad McGehee

Introduction to the SQL Server 2008 Data Collector

Chris Testa-O'Neill

End to End Report Creation and Management in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008

Chris Webb

Cache-warming strategies for Analysis Services 2008

Christian Bolton

Understanding Memory

Daniel Fisher

Surviving (data access) technology waves

Davide Mauri

Instrumenting, Monitoring and Auditing of SSIS ETL Solutions

Dr András Belokosztolszki

SSMS tricks and tips?

Ed Vassie

This Build Rocks!

Gojko Adzic

Effective test-driven database development

Hue Holleran

AddIns for SSMS - build your own

James Boother

Team Foundation Server 2008 Reporting

James Rowland-Jones

Data Warehousing features in SQL 2008

Jamie Thomson

SSIS Nuggets Live

Justin Langford

High Availability in SQL Server 2008

Klaus Aschenbrenner

Message in a bottle: Service Broker from 1 to 100 in 75 minutes!

Martin Bell

How do you do - Hierarchies?

Martin Cairney

SQL in the grand schema of things

Mike Taulty

Understanding ADO.NET Data Services

Pawel Potasinski

Utils now! Enhance your productivity with custom stored procedures

Peter Doyle

SSIS by example

R Meyyappan

Performance Optimization with SQL Server 2008

Richard Fennell

Making the SQL developer one of the family with Visual Studio Team System

Robert Hogg

Microsoft’s Vision of Modelling

Ross Mistry

Designing a Highly Available SQL Server Infrastructure - Notes from the Field

Satya Jayanty

SQL Server Extended Events - diagnose and resolve production issues!

Simon Munro

Weapons of the ORM Wars

Simon Sabin

Understanding SQL Injection - How to avoid those painful injections

Tom Pullen

Implementing Clustering using SQL Server

Tomislav Piasevoli

ABC analysis using SQL Server Reporting Services

Vincent Rainardi

Data Warehouse Architecture


 

For the first time SQLBits will reaching out to a global audience by streaming sessions live over the internet in addition to recording them for the website.

During the conference we will be running a "15 minutes of fame" competition. This will allow anyone with something interesting to demonstrate relating to SQL Server, to bring along a laptop and record a short clip for the website. After the conference we will vote on these and award a prize for the best.

We look forward to seeing you at the conference.


So, with few simple clicks you could choose and vote your favourite topic for this conference. Just a tip: SQLBits conference are free to attend that will get you invaluable knowledge in just a day!

 

 

Posted Monday, January 26, 2009 1:02 PM by SQL Master | 3 Comments

Register for DevWeek 2009 & SQL Server DevCon 2009

Register for DevWeek 2009 & SQL Server DevCon 2009

Book now and save up to £100!

The prices for attending DevWeek 2009 & SQL Server DevCon 2009 are as follows.

Please note that although the best value option is a Universal Pass, it is possible to book for as little as one day (i.e. a pre- or post-conference workshop).

  Bookings made by 27th February 2009 Full price for bookings after 27th February 2009
Main conference (Tuesday–Thursday) £1045 + VAT £1095 + VAT
Microsoft Professional Developers’ Day (Monday) £219 + VAT £269 + VAT
Pre-conference workshop (Monday) £370 + VAT £395 + VAT
Post-conference workshop (Friday) £370 + VAT £395 + VAT
Universal pass for all five days £1595 + VAT £1695 + VAT

You can book your place at DevWeek 2009 & SQL Server DevCon 2009 in any of the following ways:

ONLINE
Click here to book via a secure web site
FAX
Click here to print a PDF registration form, and return it to us on +44 (0)20 7403 7803
PHONE
Call the registration office on +44 (0)20 7407 9964
POST
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DevWeek 2009 & SQL Server DevCon 2009
c/o The Olive Partnership
Black Eagle Yard
120–122 Bermondsey Street
London
SE1 3TX
United Kingdom

Click here for hotel information

Don’t miss it!
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