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I thought I’d have a little count up and I’ve found that over almost 50% of the sessions will be delivered by current or former SQL MVPs. How awesome is that.

Whats great is that we have MVPs from all over the world attending SQLBits. Which goes to show what a truly fantastic event SQLBits is.

As a sample we’ve got

1. Brent Ozar doing a precon on Virtualization, SAN, and SQL Server: The Perfect Storm and two regular sessions SQL Server Storage - 1,000GB Level and Virtualization and SAN Basics for DBAs 

If you are doing virtualisation or using a SAN and who isn’t  then you have to get to see Brent’s session. He’s also one of only 5 people outside of Microsoft that are Microsoft Certified Masters

2. Christian Bolton is doing Consolidating data collection with SQLDIAG and analysing it all with SQLNexus 

If you want to do performance analysis then get along to Christian’s sessions. Oh and he’s not just one of the other 5 people that is an MCM but is also a Microsoft Certified Architect MCA.

3. Jamie Thomson is doing SSIS Dataflow Performance tuning

Jamie is MR SSIS so if you want to know about SSIS then SQLBits is for you. I should also mention that Allan Mitchell and Darren Green are also going to be presenting, they founded SQLDts.com and SQLIS.com so we truly have the top people presenting at SQLBits

If you want to look at previous content to see what you are missing if you don’t come why not look at Bob Duffy’s Project Gemini (aka Powerpivot) presentation http://sqlbits.com/Agenda/event5/Self_Service_Business_Intelligence-_Project_Gemini/default.aspx Did I mention that Bob is also a Microsoft Certified Architect.

In addition to the MVPs, MCAs, MCMs that we have at SQLBits we will also have the SQLCAT (http://www.sqlcat.com) team present, have a look at Thomas Kejsers IO session from SQLBits 5. This is one of the best IO sessions I’ve seen http://sqlbits.com/Agenda/event5/Designing_I_O_systems_for_SQL_Server/default.aspx

So whats stopping you. Get registering know, and for only £350 you get 3 days or awesome training from the best people in the industry. Whats more, unlike a normal training course, you get to cover the topics you want to cover and are relevant to you. I can also give you a 20% discount to make it even cheaper if you contact me

Register now before the 3rd September to save £100

Its not enough to have the SQLCAT team at SQLBits in the form of Thomas Kejser, Ewan Fairweather and Mark Souza, who are doing some sessions on high performance systems and also a panel discussion on SQLCAT and high end SQL. They will also be showing some features from SQL 11.

Awesome.

So make sure you register before places run out. http://www.sqlbits.com/information/registration.aspx

The agenda for SQLBits VII has now been made available at http://www.sqlbits.com/information/Agenda.aspx.

It looks fantastic with great content from some excellent speakers.

Today is the last day for voting for SQLBits sessions. Make sure you get your votes in, go to the Public Sessions page to vote.

Once the votes are in we will compile the agenda.

Registration is now open for SQLBits 7.

If you want to attend Thursday or Friday AND Saturday then click the option for the relevant day and you can select you wish to attend the Saturday later on in the registration process.

With the Saturday being a free day its essential for us that people make the choice whether they are going of not.

Hope to see you there