19th - 21st November 2009

Celtic Manor, Newport

Platinum Sponsors
Microsoft

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We are pleased to announce SQLBits goes West, the 5th instalment of SQLBits conferences. We are making it even bigger and better than last time, now spanning 3 days, and still keeping everything that has worked so well at previous events.

The event will be held at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport South Wales, just off the M4 motorway.

This is the biggest event yet, with 3 days of top quality SQL Server content. It starts with the pre-conference training day on Thursday 19th, more details coming soon. We have had a lot of feedback about weekday versus weekend during previous events so this time we have added a paid conference day on the Friday 20th, with a SQL 2008 and R2 theme. Finally we have the free Saturday community day, with speakers from around the world covering all manner of SQL Server topics.

Previous conferences

What people are saying about the previous conferences

"Excellent for a free event."
"Food and refreshments, staff and event organised, friendly and helpful"
"Organisation, variety of speakers & topics"
"Very knowledgable speakers, kew their stuff, techies, good. Hyper well organised, all hosts, speakers, catering staff, very polite, helpful & friendly"
"The fact that it was a Saturday. Great for us folks who are buried Monday - Friday with work."

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Sessions from the last conference

AddIns for SSMS - build your own
Comparing Azure storage and SQL Data Services
Data Mining and SSIS - makes sense.
Data Warehouse Data Modelling
Data Warehousing features in SQL 2008
Database Maintenance Optimization
Designing Effective Aggregations in Analysis Services 2008
Effective test-driven database development
End to End Report Creation and Management in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008
High Availability in SQL Server 2008
Implementing Clustering using SQL Server
Instrumenting, Monitoring and Auditing of SSIS ETL Solutions
Making the SQL developer one of the family with Visual Studio Team System
Message in a bottle: Service Broker from 1 to 100 in 75 minutes!
NHibernate – Open Source Object Relational Mapping (ORM)
Performance Optimization with SQL Server 2008
Performance Tuning your TSQL
Securing and Hardening a SQL Server Implementation - Notes from the Field
SQL Server Architecture: The life of a query
SQL Server’s storage engine
SSIS by example
SSIS Nuggets Live
Stop throwing hardware at the problem !
Understanding ADO.NET Data Services
Understanding Graphical Execution Plans
Universal calculated measures in MDX queries
Upgrading To SQL Server 2005 & 2008: Notes & Best Practices
What’s New in SQL Server 2008 T-SQL