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We are very excited to have Jamie and Neil coming to the EMC Consulting London office for the SQL London User-Group tonight, 5.45 – 6:30pm Registration and networking Meet and greet. (5 minute Nugget slot available is available - want to give one a try ?) 6:30 – 7:30pm Neil Hambly Partitioning - Learn how we can leverage this feature to ...

Simon Sabin has organised a SQLSocial event for this coming Tuesday. It’s at the Smithfield Tavern and will start at 18:30. It features some of the worlds most famous SQL Server celebrities in an informal setting. These guys are over in the UK for DevWeek and have kindly given up an evening to meet you all. 85 people have already registered – so ...

Andrew Fryer, Microsoft IT Pro evangelist extraordinaire, has 25 free tickets to give away for this Friday’s SQLBits SQL Server 2008 and R2 day!  Head over to his blog here to find out how you can claim a ticket and bag yourself a great geeky day out. You are also most welcome to stay over and enjoy the community day on the Saturday although ...

It's that time of year again!  SQLBits registration is now open and this time it is going to be bigger and better than ever! For the first time SQLBits will be held during the week and at the week-end as we have grown the event to span three days. It’s also going to be held at the world famous Celtic Manor hotel – home to the 2010 Ryder ...

This is a Public Service Announcement.  Attunity makers of all things connect-y for SSIS are putting on a webinar for their latest product Oracle CDC for SSIS. It’s an enabling solution that accelerates the development of real time data integration with Oracle systems. The event is to be held online on Monday, June 22, 2009 10:00 AM - ...

With a mixture of sadness, delight and complete relief I am proud to say that SQLBits IV has been put to bed.  Like the preparations for a wedding, I almost miss the fact that I don't have "the big day" to worry about any more - almost.  And what a great day it was too.  We had a record attendance reaching out to over 370 ...

Calling all London-based SQL People! Actually you don't have to be London-based but the meeting is in London so it helps if you are nearby and want to attend because taking hostages to a SQL event is generally frowned upon and besides they wont get the content in any event.... The London SQL Server User Group is meeting this Thursday at ...

A couple of days ago I was asked to explain the difference between synchronous and asynchronous I/O.  This was something that I covered last year at SQLBits II in my presentation "I/O! I/O! It's off to work we go...". However, when I was asked again the other day I thought of a rather good analogy. Synchronous Shopping It's ...

As you may be aware we recently hosted a meeting of the UK SQL Server User Group featuring Michael Rys. For those of you who weren't able to jot down the resources he mentioned in his presentation I have copied and pasted them in below. Thanks to Michael for posting them through - I didn't have time either! :o) Spatial Site: . ...

In an earlier post I mentioned that the 4th July had been set as the deadline for submission of session abstracts.  This deadline has now been extended till July 11th as there are still a number of people who we are waiting to hear from.  For those of you still mulling over your session submissions you now have exactly a week to get your ...