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13th September 2008 Hatfield, Hertfordshire

Agenda

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08:30

Coaches depart Reading Station Stop SA [strictly first come first served, capacity is 196 delegates]

08:45

Registration

 

Chicago 1

Chicago 2

Memphis

Everest

09:20

Welcome—Tony Rogerson

Welcome—Simon Sabin

Welcome—Chris Webb

Welcome—Martin Bell

09:30

Analysing indexes

Transactions and Exception Handling

Handling Early Arriving Facts

SQL Server 2008 for DBA

Colin Leversuch-Roberts

Eric Allsop

Sutha Thiru

Keith Burns

10:30

Break 1

10:50

Identifying Performance Problems with SQL 2005 Profiler

Getting Started with SQL Server Reporting Services

Managing change in the database world

SQL Server 2008 Beyond Relational

Martin Bell

Tim Leung

Dr András Belokosztolszki

Keith Burns

11:50

Break 2

12:10

Effective usage of SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring

77 SQL Server Myths

Advanced SSIS

What's new in AS 2008?

Satya Shyam K Jayanty

Simon Sabin

Allan Mitchell

Chris Webb

13:10—14:30

Lunch

13:20—14:10

Grok Talk

Your chance to present—max 10min talk on anything SQL related.

Grok Talk

Your chance to present—max 10min talk on anything SQL related.

Quest Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise

TBC

Quest Performance Analysis for SQL Server

 

Quest

IDERA

14:30

Daves Top 10 SQL Keywords

Partitioning in the Real World

Extending SSIS with Custom Tasks

What does Katmai do for BI

Dave McMahon

Hue Holleran

Darren Green

Andrew Fryer

15:30

Break 3

15:50

Is your SQL Server secure?

Katmai v SQL 2005

Unit Testing in SQL Server

Performance Tuning MDX queries

Martin Cairney

Allan Mitchell

Richard Fennel

Chris Webb

16:50

Day ends

17:20

Coaches depart TVP to Reading Station [strictly first come first served, capacity is 98 delegates]

17:20

Coaches depart TVP to Group By Event [strictly first come first served, capacity is 98 delegates]

18:00 - 21:00

Group By Event at Reading Bowl Upstairs [Obtain tickets from SQLBits staff on the day - check out notices]

21:20

Coaches depart Reading Bowl to Reading Station [strictly first come first served, capacity is 98 delegates]



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