This evening I took over the running of the London SQL Server User Group because the usual hosts, Simon Sabin and James Rowland-Jones, were otherwise occupied. The theme of the night was “SQL Server in the cloud” so I did a session called “What’s new in SQL Data Services” which was a run through of the slides from Nigel Ellis’ session of the same name at MIX09. For those that asked about obtaining the slides they can be downloaded from http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T06F where you can also see a full run-through of Nigel’s talk. For various reasons I had to rush my presentation so I highly recommend watching Nigel’s delivery of it so as to get the information that I didn’t have time to present.
My colleague Simon Munro also did a session, this one entitled “The cloud DBA”, where he discussed some of the issues that we as SQL people need to be considering in regard to “the cloud” (whatever that may be). Doubtless Simon will make the slides available on his blog, perhaps even his demo too.
During the QnA section there was a question about configuring parameters in the Execute SQL Task. I mentioned an article I knew of that provided guidance based on the OLE DB provider being used and said I would link to it later. Here is that article: http://totaldevpro.com/blogs/khaselden/archive/2009/04/07/sql-task-parameters.aspx.
Thank you to everyone that turned up, I look forward to seeing you all at the next London meeting on 18th June. If you are interested in presenting at future user group events then please let Simon or James know; these guys do a wonderful job of making sure that the regular meetings are fruitful and fun for all of us but in order to do that they need people to “muck in” so if you think you have something to contribute please do get involved.
-Jamie