Jamie and I gave presentations last night at the London SQL Server users group. It was a good evening but I think I managed to upset about half the people there. I suppose when your first two slides are these…
…then you can expect a bit of an uphill battle.
But, the other half seemed to enjoy it, and besides, if I am not pissing off someone, then I’m not getting my message across. I think though that the attendees took it in their stride and, after all, they are attending user group meetings to expose themselves to new things.
The pinnacle of the presentation was a demo that I put together that sends data from SQL Server to Azure storage via SQL-CLR and WCF (Maaaaaybe of more interest to .NET people than SQL people). I’ll put it up on codeplex soon and blog a bit about my experiences, so watch this space. In the meantime I have put the slides from last night up here, but they don’t have many bullets so won’t be very useful for people who did not attend.
When I got home I was chatting to JRJ wondering if my corp overlords would allow ‘Technology *** Stirrer’ as the title on my business card… he suggested ‘DBA Baiter’ instead.
Simon Munro
@simonmunro