News

Due to the overwhelming number of session submissions we have increased the number. So we now have 24 sessions plus 4 sessions from sponsors planned. To do this we are shortening each session to 50 minutes.

I hope this goes down well, I guess we'll see when we get the feedback in.

We will be deciding on the sessions tomorrow (Tuesday 8th March) so make sure you get your session in for SQLBits quick.

Don't forget we are focussing on performance an scalability so make sure your session covers one or both of these.

To submit your session

We are very excited that Attunity are going to be exhibiting at SQLBits VI, they must have a great product because any client I see that is integrating SQL with other stores such as DB2 and Oracle seem to be using Attunity's providers.

On top of that we have a new exhibitor. Fusion IO will be coming along and I hope will be bringing some amazing demos of their kit. SSD storage is the future and Fusion IO are at the top of the game. Many in the SQL community have said that SSD for tempdb is just awesome, come and have a chat with the guys to talk about your high performance storage needs.

I am so excited that we high performance storage guru Thomas Kejser from the Microsoft SQLCAT coming to SQLBits VI. If you are dealing with large volumes of data and you want it to perform then attending Thomas's session is a must. Are you currently only getting 10Mb/s from your storage, find out how you can get 3GB/s.

What if storage isn't your thing, well we have Conor Cunningham flying in as well from the US. Conor is part of the the Query Processor team at Microsoft. What he doesn't know about the Query Optimiser in SQL Server is nothing. Have you ever wondered why the optimiser chose a particular plan for your queries or how it works efficiently with partitioning then this is your chance to ask the person that knows. If you want to know more about Conor, pick up the SQL Server Internals in which Conor wrote the chapter on the Query Optimiser.

Session submission for SQLBits VI is now open.

So if you have a topic related to the performance and scalability of any part of the SQL Server stack that you think people might be interested in then please submit it:

To submit a session do the following

• Login or Register at http://www.sqlbits.com/
• Complete your speaker profile here
• Submit your sessions here

Even if you have spoken before you need to complete your profile by agreeing to the speaker agreement. If you haven't uploaded please upload a photo.

Get submitting and we'll see you in London in 2 months time.