30th September - 2nd October 2010

University of York

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Seminars

Pre Conference full day training seminars, Thursday, September 30, 2010. There are 8 seminars to choose from below. Click on the title to get more details of the session. The training day seminars will be held at the Royal York Hotel, next to York train station.

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Virtualization, SAN, and SQL Server: The Perfect Storm with Brent Ozar
Creating a Career Development Plan with Buck Woody
SQL Server for the Non DBA with Buck Woody
Implementing SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services with Chris Testa-O'Neill
Performance Tuning Analysis Services 2008 with Chris Webb
SQLCLR & Service Broker with Klaus Aschenbrenner
Secrets of the SQLOS with Maciej Pilecki
Fixing Queries through Advanced T-SQL Techniques with Rob Farley

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Fixing Queries through Advanced T-SQL Techniques with Rob Farley

Have you inherited queries that are not your own, and are finding that performance isn’t so great? Removing cursors in favour of set-based queries is useful, but even set-based queries can perform poorly. Understanding the impact of various constructs on a query plan can be key to resolving many of these issues.
 
In this seminar, SQL Server MVP Rob Farley will take a look at some real-life queries and take the class through examples of constructs that can have significant effects on tuning. This will include complex nested joins, join simplification, procedural functions, SARGability, execution plan reading, complex sorting, ORs, effective Dynamic SQL, GROUP BY v DISTINCT, unique indexes, temporary tables, and more.
 
This will be a day spent in Management Studio, not PowerPoint. If you want to know how to persuade the Query Optimizer to do a better job of running your query, this day is for you.